Brand monitoring on social media
In today’s world you need to know what people are saying about your company and brand. On social media a lot of influence is exerted that will help people make purchasing decisions. One tool that can help is from Social Mention (see socialmention.com). This will give you a scorecard of your current position across a big selection of social media sites and tools. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google...
Read MoreCan we learn from reality TV?
I have been thinking recently about how reality TV is so successful and if this can be mapped to viral marketing. If you think about reality TV programmes it is all about the programme makers seeding enough information to gain momentum outside of the programme. Each programme wants people to spend the week promoting an act or contestant on the programmes behalf and even better if they then say bad things about the competition. So when looking at marketing we want to seed just enough about our...
Read MoreDoes your business look serious?
Does your website get the visitors but closure rate on sales is disappointing? Often this is because any new visitor will want to gain confidence that the organisation behind the website is real and not too risky to do business with. In the offline world you automatically evaluate a company based on physical details like premises, staff politeness, packaging etc. Website visitors need to do the same but they don’t have the physical aspects at hand. Some of the items they look for and thus...
Read MoreWhat do you want to achieve online?
If you just go into creating a website without any business plan you will fail. The first step is consider what type of online presence you want, these fall roughly into 5 categories although a number of websites do offer more than one. e-commerce: provision of products available to purchase online. information: typically help to generate offline sales of services by providing information. brand: focus is to support your brand. portal: provision of news and information around a range of...
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