Facebook Timeline for Brands
Awesome things about Facebook’s Timeline for brand pages: content will reign as king – the more shareable, the better your engagement the cover photo – check out how Verizon used theirs to generate...
View ArticleWhat’s A Fan Worth [infographic]
One way of determining the value that Social Media brings to your business is to know what a fan or follower is worth. Washing a sample of your database that contact you via Social channels against...
View ArticleNEWS FLASH – Content Marketing is HUGE!
Just in case you’ve been on holidays in a remote part of the world with no data connection for the past 12 months….Content Marketing has exploded! Not exploded as in (aaarrrggghhh…rrruuunnnn!) but...
View ArticleNobody Is Interested In Your Marketing
OUCH! You don’t have to google too far to find a list of ‘customer-centric’ companies (or at least ones that claim to be so). Companies who proclaim that ‘the customer is at the centre of everything we...
View ArticleThe Doctor Will See You Now
OK, pop quiz! How many mentions do the top 100 online brands receive in one month? According to a recent report (the Burson-Marsteller Social Media Checkup) it was 10,400, 132 mentions. PHWOAR! Not...
View ArticleSocial Strategy For Retail
Radian 6 make a lot of things about Social Media simple, which is why I really like their pack – Social Media Strategy for Retail. They give retailers a step-by-step guide to getting going and keeping...
View ArticleThe Rules of Storytelling
If you want to know all there is about motors, you go to a mechanic. For all there is to know about taxation, you’d go to an accountant. For storytelling expertise, you’d go to a 3 year old (wouldn’t...
View ArticleIt’s Not The Size Of Your Fan Base, It’s The Magic In It.
Today I read one of the funniest lines about the ‘stuff’ that brands churn into the Social stratosphere. It also happens to be a really good barometer of how healthy your conversations with your...
View ArticleA Guide To Facebook Edgerank….in pictures!
In my last post I talked (wrote?!) about some branded content having the nutritional value of potato chips – easy to manufacture, cheap to produce and high volume but ultimately no good. Today I found...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH: Social Media is not ‘free’
I see (and hear of) organisations that are still coming to grips with the reality that Social Media is not ‘free’. You’ve probably encountered this mindset yourself to some degree – Social is...
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