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.
We humans are pretty good at linguistic ambiguity. We’ve been mastering the art of communication through words since the day we were born – it’s our life’s work. Emojis, however, are a bit of a plot twist. It’s been hundreds of years since the common man had to rely so heavily on pictures to interpret […]
An Instagram survey of 21,000 regular users aged 13 to 64 found that 87% of people had taken action after seeing a product on the platform – clicking through to buy or doing research elsewhere. Considering that Instagram says its 400 million active users spend 53 minutes a day scrolling through their feeds, that’s a […]
What’s a social PR campaign? It takes the goals of a traditional PR campaign – raising brand awareness and sentiment – but keeps costs down and activity in-house. It’s PR for the digital age and the minimal budget. The beauty of free community platforms for our brands is that even a small business can run […]
Buying followers is so 2015. For one thing: no one’s believing your new business went from two followers (you and your mum) to 5,000 overnight. For another, Twitter has had several widely-publicised culls of fake accounts. And if you’re buying followers, that’s what you’re getting. The solution? Have a Twitter account that’s actually good. Yeah, […]
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 […]