By Danyl Bosomworth 28 Feb 2012 Leveraging content to drive awareness, permission and sale An infographic showing how to use content marketing to grow your business What do you do at a time when paid-for media is neither reliable nor scalable, earned media is super-competitve and owned media properties require constant investment to engage …..
By Tim Watson 27 Feb 2012 The secret weapon of top social media experts – that they never mention There are many excellent social media blogs providing great content to keep you up-to-date with the latest social media marketing trends and advice. SocialMediaExaminer is one of these sources of great information. So its no surprise they have 47,513 followers …..
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By Danyl Bosomworth 24 Feb 2012 21 essential ingredients of a social media plan To celebrate the launch of our new social media strategy guide, Dave and I thought we’d share our top 21 tips to help with social media planning. We’d love to hear your thoughts from recent experience, too… This post follows …..
By Mike Berry 23 Feb 2012 What does the future hold for specialist digital agencies? Two apparently contradictory reports on UK digital ad spend Two stories in the marketing press caught my eye recently because they appeared to contradict each other and each is from an impeccable source. One set of figures comes from the …..
By Chris Soames 23 Feb 2012 Are you using these new opportunities for outsourcing marketing? A review of the main web crowdsourcing services for marketing, design and development These service sound scarier than than the title suggests. I’m sure many consultants, agencies and companies are using services such as Upwork and 99Designs already. But I thought …..
By Dave Chaffey 22 Feb 2012 Keep up-to-date with Facebook Marketing Developments New European Facebook marketing pages launched Value/Importance: [rating=3] Recommended link: Facebook UK Marketing page We’ve found the global / US Facebook Marketing Page useful for ideas on Facebook Marketing – it seems others do too – there are nearly 900,000 Likes for …..
By Marie Page 21 Feb 2012 Using Facebook Events – an example How to use Facebook for a friendly B2C ‘webinar’ alternatives Facebook is ‘the’ social media platform for communicating with consumers in 2012 and looks set to continue well into the future. Many brands have moved away from microsites and instead …..
By Mark Brownlow 21 Feb 2012 Go on: take another look at your subject lines Why it pays to review your subject line length and purpose What we think influences what we say, and what we say influences what we think. Now what has that got to do with subject lines? Well, it starts with …..
By Kath Pay 20 Feb 2012 ‘Learn More’ Might Sell Better than ‘Buy Now’ in Email A call-to-action at the wrong time in the wrong place? How do you feel when a pushy shop assistant approaches you the minute you enter a shop? When an email consisting of nothing but a hard-sell call-to-action lands in your …..