By Chris Soames 19 Jul 2012 Reporting on social media campaign effectiveness Using RACE to structure your social analytics Social analytics is still relatively new and yet there are already many tools offering to give you the insights to empower your marketing. Often, these tools won’t give you a full picture of …..
By Mark Brownlow 19 Jul 2012 How to communicate “quality” through your email marketing Basic tactics for building trust in your brand: Part 2 Part 1 of this article outlined the role of familiarity, transparency and accountability in building trust in and through your email program. It also mentioned another set of appropriate “trust” …..
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By Expert commentator 18 Jul 2012 Avoiding the social media complacency trap Why social media dashboards aren’t a substitute for deeper customer understanding using digital ethnography Considering how fast social media came upon us, social media marketing has reached an interesting point in its evolution: complacency. Not in the media itself, nor …..
By James Gurd 18 Jul 2012 The increasing importance of social media within SEO An introduction to the main social signals used by search engines and how this changes SEO If you have followed the first 9 steps in this SEO series, you’ll have picked up tips on what have been the core elements …..
By Expert commentator 17 Jul 2012 How to avoid delivering “death by powerpoint” Setting yourself and your marketing presentations apart using five steps and one change in behaviour According to some estimates, between 30 and 40 million PowerPoint presentations are created each day. If each presentation averages 35 slides, simple math tells us …..
By Expert commentator 17 Jul 2012 Understanding Google’s Penguin update and what to do about it A review of Google’s key site quality-related algorithm changes in 2012 You will have heard that the Google update known as ‘Penguin’ was rolled out earlier this year; the 24th April 2012 to be precise. It came at a time …..
By Dave Chaffey 17 Jul 2012 SOSTAC® marketing plans [infographic] Applying PR Smith’s SOSTAC® planning to digital marketing SOSTAC® is a marketing planning model, originally developed by PR Smith in the 1990s to help marketers develop marketing plans. Paul is my co-author on Emarketing Excellence, so when we created this book it …..
By Expert commentator 16 Jul 2012 Persona-based segmentation using web analytics data An introduction to persona-based segmentation using an example The beauty of persona-based segmentation is that it provides a much easier grip on the data than almost any other method of presenting Web analytics. Marketers can really use this type of …..
By Danyl Bosomworth 16 Jul 2012 Managing your marketing budget in 2012 24 checks to help focus your digital marketing budget I’ve been reminded a few times during the last month that we’re at “that” time of year. A time where many of us get our budgets reigned back for us (or …..