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Apple announce iOS5 with social integration, iCloud storage

Yesterday at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple released details and demonstrations of iOS 5, their latest version of the the operating system powering 200 million mobile devices including iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch. Apple have introduced hundreds of new features for users and it seems hundreds ( if not thousands) more for [...]

Top tips for writing search engine friendly blog posts

To many of us, the company blog seems to have taken a bit of a back seat in recent times in favour of the currently more ‘trendy’ forms of social media such as social networking or micro-blogging. True. The blog may lack the cosy familiarity of Facebook or the soundbite immediacy of Twitter, but it still remains an component of social media that can drive quality traffic to your website as well as the previously mentioned social media channels.

Gone but truly never forgotten

Gone but truly never forgotten

You probably all know by now that Craig Killick left the Escape at the end of December 2009. We like to keep in touch and noticed that he’s volunteered himself (yet again) to cycle from Paris to London in July 2010 on behalf of Action Medical Research. His aim is to raise £1500 for Action [...]

Is there life in the old blog yet?

The Internet is still growing at a jaw-dropping pace. The number of published websites have increased massively in the last decade with conservative estimates now putting the figure well in excess of 200,000,000 (200m) sites. For a commercial organisation, this will almost certainly mean increased competition. So today, a web presence alone may not be [...]

It’s all about me

It’s all about me

Being an openly self-obsessed female in today’s generation, I recently booked myself into a boudoir photography photoshoot with www.fyeoportraits.com. I came away with a rosy glow but at a loss as to what I could possibly do with the naked/semi naked photos of myself? “I have to do something with them” I told myself, “I [...]

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  • We'll have a new 'home sweet home' from Friday 8 March

    We’re on the move!… and we’re moving Friday 8 March. Its very exciting. We’ve boxed up our crayons and Etch A Sketches and we’re heading off to our new home, a lovely old farmhouse (with beams, fireplaces and a garden – no cows or goats though) in Hatch Warren, the other side of Basingstoke from [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Mar 2013 Read More

  • New website for Cards for Good Causes

    December was a busy time for one of our new clients, the lovely ‘Cards for Good Causes’, who are the UK’s largest multi-charity Christmas card organisation. They sell beautiful Christmas cards for around 300 charities in their nationwide network of pop-up charity Christmas card shops and (this is where we come in) for 34 charities on their e-commerce [...]

    Date Posted: 04 Feb 2013 Read More

  • Hello, I'm Carla (the new girl!)

    My name is Carla and my role at The Escape is New Business Development Manager. I identify new business opportunities which fit with our services, client experience and team. In order to develop client relationships for the agency I devote significant time to understand the true benefits The Escape offers to reach your marketing goals [...]

    Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 Read More

  • Bath's gone green!

    We’ve been working with our lovely clients at First, helping them to promote their Park & Ride service in Bath, which has just been re-vamped with the launch of some exciting new hybrid buses.  If you’d like a reminder of the background to this project, you can read about that here. Not only can you [...]

    Date Posted: 02 Nov 2012 Read More

  • Beringer Tame keep the coffee hot, flowing and easy on the eye!

    Last year, our friends at Beringer Tame, the digital and ecommerce recruitment specialists, took the plunge and sponsored the coffee station at the 2011 Internet Retailing Conference. Seeing the lure of the fresh black stuff (unless it’s a Latte obviously) as inevitable to most, the opportunity to have some brand engagement and exposure on-hand seemed [...]

    Date Posted: 01 Nov 2012 Read More