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Darren McCowan

Darren is the Director of Marketing at Answer4u, with over 30 years of experience developing and leading marketing strategies for established UK brands. He specialises in customer experience, call handling services, and contact centre solutions, leveraging extensive industry knowledge. Through clear, practical insights, Darren empowers businesses to refine their approach, boost customer engagement, and remain competitive in an ever-changing business landscape.

How to Boost your Business’s Professional Image

Image is a crucial part of any enterprise, be it personal or professional. For businesses, a good image lends itself to more opportunities when networking, recruitment, investment and sales. Yet[...]

4 Blog Boosting Ideas to Keep Your Traffic Growing

It’s common knowledge that a well-kept blog will do great things for your business and website. As we’ve outlined before, fresh content on your site is the best reason to drive new leads. Content is[...]

How to Retain Your Social Media Following

Anybody wanting to successfully build brand awareness on social media, share their content and generally be a big deal online will have faced that one big challenge: Getting followers.

Creating Killer Content to Drive New Leads to Your Site

One of the primary goals of any business in the digital age is to drive traffic to their website. After all, nestled within that traffic is a population of future customers. But with the sheer[...]

3 Simple Ways Your Business Can Engage with Customers Better Online

You’re a business, you have a certain image and professionalism to maintain. That’s fine - in fact, that’s necessary, but if you stay too straight-laced, too tight-lipped, you’re apt to find you’re[...]

Business Exit Strategy: Get Ready to Reap the Rewards of Your Work

When it comes to the final phase of the entrepreneurial process – selling, transferring or retirement – it may sound like a swift ‘thank you and goodbye’, but in fact there’s a lot more work to do[...]

Split-Testing: Changes That Can Impact Conversion Rate

As a company – whether you’re an SME or a large enterprise – your online landing and service pages have one singular purpose: to bring in more business. Yet even with slick copy, elegant visuals and[...]

4 Handy Tools to Save Time Making Your Social Media Flourish

Social media isn’t new anymore. It’s a substantial and important component to any business’s marketing strategy. And there’s a reason for this importance: being active on social media can steer[...]

How to Build Relationships with Your Field's Digital Authorities

Digital authorities are the celebrities of your industry’s online world; your friends and family members might think nothing of their names, but, within your chosen field, their word carries enormous[...]

Taking Your First Steps on the Entrepreneurial Stage

The seven stages of entrepreneurship are a bit like Shakespeare’s celebrated ‘Seven Ages of Man’ from the play As You Like It – but in a world where you get to select the exit strategy of your choice.