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Hands up if you have a social media strategy in place. My guess is that there are relatively few readers of this blog post waving their hands in the air shouting: “I do. I do. Me. Over here!” However, there will be a lot of people out there hiding behind something, anything, as they know [...]
Well, the one certainty in social media is change and this week’s change – or should I say yesterday’s change – is that Twitter now allows you to add a header image to your profile page. This brings how visitors see your Twitter profile page in line with Facebook – which made this change a [...]
Twitter is a great tool to engage with current clients/customers, prospects, advocates, influencers, or anyone really, but you need to have something to say to them. Are you stuck for words? I see so many articles or advice on the internet that says all businesses must have a presence on social media platforms, especially Twitter, [...]
There is no denying the fact that the internet is an invaluable marketing tool, and it never fails to amuse/amaze me (take your pick!) when I meet business owners who still don’t have a web presence for their company – yep, they do exist! Just having a website is not always enough, there is so much more out there online – how many business owners are fully embracing the opportunities that the web has to offer?
According to some web analysis data from WebTrends, direct e-mail marketing, web analytics, search engine optimisation and online advertising are the web tools that stand out as being widely used by UK businesses, with one third of companies using them often or always. Just 2% (so just 1 in 50) businesses in the UK use Twitter for marketing.
Does your marketing need to be social? If you are not already using social media, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogging, then you should definitely tip your toe in the social media puddle and see if you ‘get it’ – not everyone does. Social media is everywhere at the moment and is the latest ‘must do’ [...]
As a marketer it is very important that I am able to measure the effectiveness of the marketing I do for clients. I need to know what is working, and what isn’t, and tweek or stop a particular activity if it is not encouraging leads or sales. I use a range of tools (some free and [...]
