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Social Media: Are You Getting It Right?

Social Media & carpenter-a-selfie

Sarah Woodhouse, Director at AMBITIOUS PR, shares her top tips on making the most of social media when it comes to marketing your business … Whether it’s sharing a funny video clip, your holiday photos (remember those?) or your thoughts on how your favourite football team performed in last night’s game, social media is a great place to connect with …

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Social media success for Roughneck products

Social media success

Olympia Tools, the company behind the Roughneck brand of hand tools and workwear, says it has seen a surge in demand for its products thanks to social media. Two of the distributor’s products featured in posts that subsequently went viral, attracting interest from a global audience. The first product to prove a social media success was the Roughneck Tri Vice; …

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7 Tips for Making the Most of Online Training

Girl Online Training

In our post-COVID-19 world, more and more activities are moving online, from work to yoga classes, and training is no exception. Certain types of training such as Skills Training Group gas and electrician courses need to be done in person. However, there are many other kinds of training, such as digital skills, marketing, writing, and more that can be successfully …

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Getting the most from your marketing post COVID-19

Rachel McHugh from Clear B2B

Rachel McHugh, Managing Director at creative marketing and PR agency, Clear B2B – Construction Marketing Awards’ ‘Agency of the Year’ – shares her thoughts on how those in the building and construction industry can get the most out of their marketing activity post-COVID-19. Keeping customers and winning new clientele The building and construction industry is an inherently competitive one – …

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7 Top DIY Security Ideas For Your Home

Security Ideas For Your Home

All you need to know about protecting your home against intruders. Most of these security ideas for your home can be easily carried out without the need for hiring in a professional.

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Tradespeople ready to fix lockdown DIY disasters

Dickies DIY fixes

According to a survey by global workwear brand Dickies, over the coming months, nearly three-quarters of tradespeople expect to be fixing botched DIY jobs carried out by people at home during the lockdown imposed in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. The poll, carried out through Dickies Workwear’s Twitter feed, revealed that 72.9% of respondents anticipated spending some of their time …

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Dickies Puts Your Hero Tradesperson in the Spotlight

Dickies heroes site guy

Global workwear brand Dickies is putting the spotlight on tradespeople who are working hard to deliver essential projects during the Coronavirus outbreak. Dickies is encouraging anyone who knows a tradesperson carrying out such work to share their stories on social media – using the hashtag #dickieshero – where the company will highlight inspiring examples to its followers. “During these testing …

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Is There No Such Thing as Rising Damp?

No Such Thing as Rising Damp

The anti-rising damp brigade is lead by a couple of gurus, who tell us there's no such thing as rising damp, are deaf to any argument but their own.

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4 Ways to Attract More Women into the Construction Sector

4 Ways to Attract More Women

Women are under-represented in construction. Only 3% of manual trades, 5% of engineering, 8% of haulage and 12% of construction roles are filled by women. Companies who take steps to attract more women on board, often outperform those that don’t.

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Three Reasons Why Builders Should Apply for Business Awards

3 reasons why builders should apply for business awards

Caroline Pegden from TempaGoGo, an online temporary recruitment marketplace helping construction companies and builders find temporary staff easily, shares three reasons why builders should apply for business awards. Have you ever considered applying for a business award? If you haven’t, you should! There are more than 65 construction-focused business awards to pick from every year in the UK, and many …

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Choosing a house builder

Choosing a house builder

Ryan Abell of building services company, Abbell Building Services, describes how working in a range of building trades has helped him to instantly recognise a house builder that is great to work with.  In this article, he explains what makes a house builder stand out. Skills Perhaps the most important attribute of an excellent builder is their level of skill.  …

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The Rise of the Well Connected Builder

construction industry predictions

Roger Bisby charts the emergence of Bluetooth Connectivity in power tools and wonders how we find the line between work and play. There are now whole generations of tradespeople coming along behind me who have grown up with the mobile phone and will find the ability to control their power tools via Bluetooth as instinctive as breathing. For me, it …

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Day in the life: Kevin Skeith (Dickies UK worker of the year 2016)

kevin skeith

Skill Builder’s ‘Day in the life’ feature takes a look at a typical day in the life of different tradespeople. In this installment, we talk to the inspirational Kevin Skeith who, against all the odds, recovered from a serious motorcycle accident which threatened to leave him as a quadriplegic. He now runs a thriving flooring business and became Dickie’s UK …

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Smartphone use impacting construction workers productivity, says new research

construction workers productivity

The average British worker spends as many as 120 hours per year using their smartphones in the workplace, and those working in construction are among the highest users, according to new research. Research of 2,012 UK adults carried out by gadgets and technology etailer, LaptopsDirect.co.uk, has revealed more than three quarters (78%) of construction workers admit to using their smartphones …

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Give This Man a Round of Applause

Band of builders thunderclap

Anyone who tuned into the Band of Builders facebook live auction last Saturday evening, 17th December, which was broadcast via the Band of Builders and Builders Talk group facebook pages, could be forgiven for thinking the event’s organiser Addam Smith was going to take the rest of the year off. (If you haven’t heard Addam and the Band of Builders …

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