Get your logo on the Vodafone McClaren F1 car at the British Grand Prix Vodafone UK is offering a small to medium size business customer the chance to have their logo on the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 cars providing global advertising for your company for free.

Don’t shoot the messenger: Customer reviews are important marketing tool Customer reviews are becoming an increasingly prominent part of our online experience, so why do so many small businesses still fear them? We spoke to Alinna Chung from Yell to find out how companies can unlock the potential of customer reviews.

Design for Small Business: Using Stock Photography The majority of promotional materials produced by businesses small and large feature photographs — not only of a company’s products or facilities, but also of things, people and places the company hopes will appeal to the target audience. Here James Leal-Valias, Creative Director at iStockphoto talks us through the options available to get the right images at the right price for your business.

Get your marketing message on the buses in new competition CBS Outdoor UK has teamed up with, the UKs leading magazine for the advertising industry, Campaign magazine to launch a creative challenge to help celebrate the size, stature and community reach of bus advertising.

Metro launches Venture Candy to find entrepreneurs of the future Metro, the free urban national newspaper, has launched Venture Candy 2011 to find the businesses and entrepreneurs of the future.

WorldPay and National Business Awards set to recognise ‘Online Business of the Year’ The leading global payments provider WorldPay has today announced a partnership with the National Business Awards to launch the ‘Online Business of the Year’ category.

Nearly all small companies use social networking now in everyday business A new survey has revealed that great swathes of small and medium-sized enterprises are now embracing social media as a means of conducting business.

Is the recession over for marketing? In 2010, the top 100 advertisers' spend on traditional media - that is, TV, outdoor, radio and magazines - grew by 13% overall to nearly £40bn, according to Marketing magazine’s just released Top 100 Advertisers league table.

Design for small business: Planning the process Whether you are considering a major corporate image overhaul or need to promote an event with an ad in the local paper, the first decision to be made during the design planning process is whether to do it yourself or bring in outside help. Here James Leal-Valias, Creative Director at iStockphoto looks at the options available to you.

The value of a brand In musings past I have talked about the importance of knowing your product, understanding your market and identifying a route to that market. There was nothing particularly revolutionary in my prose, it was merely a collection of my meandering thoughts that, when merged, reiterated the need for a startup to have a clear marketing strategy and vision.

New business venture gets networking down to a tee Some of the most prestigious golf courses are supporting a new and bespoke business networking organisation to provide business leaders with a tailored networking environment set against the backdrop of six of Britain’s finest golf venues - Sunningdale, Wentworth and Walton Heath in England as well as Kinsgbarns Golf Links, Mar Hall and The Carrick on Loch Lomond north of the border.

SMEs ignore customer feedback and use social media to broadcast online Less than one in ten small and medium sized businesses are monitoring social media to better understand their customers, as they broadcast sales messages, new research has revealed.

Developing businesses social media presence: one tweet at a time With everyone all of a Twitter, and with the number of users growing by 300,000 each day, this social networking site provides an effective tool for small businesses keen to expand their growth by reaching out to key audiences.

One million UK professionals join LinkedIn in six months LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, have announced that over one million UK professionals have joined LinkedIn since June 2010, bringing the total number of UK members up to five million, which represents 40 percent of UK professionals.

Could you be an expert on our TV screen? The online database findaTVexpert.com, which puts experts in various fields, including business, has announced it has teamed up with Mentorn Media, one of the UK's longest established independent television production companies, to host a series of ‘Could You be a TV Expert?’ seminars across the UK hunting for new TV talent next year.

The bigger they are... Competing with a dominant brand The launch of the new Windows 7 phone into the Smartphone market that is dominated by iPhone, pits two of the world’s biggest brands, Microsoft and Apple, into direct competition. Microsoft is the proverbial David to Apple’s Goliath in this situation, and represents a struggle that small businesses face every day when they attempt to launch into an already competitive market – how do we compete with the dominant brand?

Four types of content to ensure you can create a successful website Whilst many businesses appreciate the importance of having a website to promote their company, few recognise that there are four types of essential content that ensure the website serves its purpose. This content can help establish a company as a leader in its field; drive traffic to the website; help to generate leads and provide an ongoing narrative of success stories.

Design for Small Business: Corporate Image – An Introduction Every day, we are bombarded by thousands of visual messages. A billboard tugs at heartstrings and wallets with an image of a starving child, a blinking Internet ad demands we save the planet with eco-consciously packaged shampoo, an car maker splashes magazine pages with tantalizing photos of the Autobahn. What is your business doing to cut through this clutter? If you are among thousands of small UK companies struggling to survive in today’s extraordinarily challenging business climate, likely not very much. And that’s a mistake.

Marketing on a Budget: Sell yourself, not your product There are a few ways a start-up or SME can distinguish itself from the masses in a crowded market, but perhaps one of the most the effective, certainly the most cost effective, is to sell yourself alongside your product.

Nigel Botterill’s top Twitter tips Nigel Botterill, the UK entrepreneur and marketing expert who has established five million pound businesses, including the UK’s leading franchise company, Thebestof, and has been responsible for setting up over 2000 people in business since 2004 shares some of his top Twitter tips to help you and your business maximise the platform.