Building a good presence on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ should be a central part of any digital marketing strategy. A strong following can boost your business visibility online, and it’s a great way to engage with customers on a more personal and direct level. With a strong following also comes a ready audience for promotions and messages, which can be shared and passed on, extending your reach and growing your business.
It goes without saying that the internet is an indispensable part of our lives. But it boggles the mind to think how quickly things have developed. The first website (and therefore the part of the internet we call “the World Wide Web”) only went live in 1991. Back then, only a select few of us […]
Reputation is a funny old thing. A good reputation takes time and effort to build, especially in business. It’s something that’s built over months and years, rather than weeks or days. However, if something goes wrong, all of that good standing can be lost in an instant. Huge companies employ whole teams of people to […]
There are a number of lazy habits that companies fall into over social media. Not least is the tendency to see social media as little more than a numbers game. We’re constantly reminded of our follower or like counts on social, but the amount of followers you have just isn’t that important. It’s the positive […]
Hashtags were popularised by Twitter over 10 years ago to help users group Tweets via common topics of discussion. Lots of other platforms like Instagram and Facebook also use hashtags, with a similar purpose of grouping posts together. If you don’t know what a hashtag is then have a look at my example image of a […]
Did you know 59% of senior executives said that if they were given text and video on the same topic, they’d rather watch the video? (Source: Digital Information World, 2016). And I don’t blame them! Personally, I find that watching a video about a tough topic often serves to embed the information in my mind […]
You may have heard that marketing methods can be separated into two categories: “push” and “pull” techniques. Push marketing uses techniques that are pushed under the noses of your audience like online banner ads, broadcast advertising, handing out flyers, or social media ads. Push marketing is also known as “outbound” marketing. “Pull” techniques however are […]
Marketing and psychology are intrinsically linked. We need to know how prospects are going to react to certain stimuli to maximise our chances of a sale. For those of us with a passing interest in marketing psychology and language, you may have heard the term “FOMO”. It was only added to the Oxford English Dictionary […]
Everything seems very doom and gloom in January. Once you’re back at work, Christmas feels like it was months ago! But there are reasons to be cheerful. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with feelgood platitudes like “a baby’s laugh” or “the brotherhood of humankind”. We marketers have a lot to look forward […]
Google+ has about 2.2 billion user accounts and even up to a year ago Google+ was making updates to their platform, so it may have come as a shock to some regular users that it will be closing in April 2019. Even though Google+ has a high number of user accounts it is estimated that […]
2018 was a great year for online video. As a format, video has well and truly cemented itself as the king of content. There are so many awesome and inventive concepts doing the rounds at the moment and creators of all kinds can share video more inexpensively than ever. Video is also an undeniably powerful […]