LEGO: why I think they’re The Masters of Marketing
With the Masters of Marketing awards rapidly approaching us, rumour has it members of the public are able to nominate their favourite brands for the ‘Brand of the Year’ category.
Henry Elliss
The dirty secrets of clickbait. This post will blow your mind!
Over the past year or two, sites like Buzzfeed and Upworthy have introduced a new type of content marketing to the masses.
The 10 most common mistakes of blogger outreach
The practise of blogger or influencer “engagement” is one of the most widely-used tactics in marketing these days, done by almost everyone, from PR agencies to SEOs, social marketers to spammers.
It’s also one of the most commonly derided amongst the recipients and much-debated amongst bloggers and professionals – but rarely addressed by marketers themselves.
If you’re doing it well, why share the secrets with your competitors? Sadly, a lot of marketers are doing it very badly indeed, and something needs to be done about it…
Don’t believe the hype: Google+ does not mean great SEO
Yesterday, I had a rather heated debate with a fellow online marketer, on one of the most popular topics within SEO at the moment: Namely, the impact of Google+ (and its +1s) on search rankings – or lack of, to be more precise.
Let me start this post with a couple of caveats. First up, whilst I’m very much on record as not being a fan of Google+ (I *may* have called it ‘The King’s New Clothes of Social Networking’ a few times) my opinion about the topic in question is entirely unrelated to this.
I may not be a fan, but I certainly recognise the impressive offering Google have developed in the fight against Facebook. I have a Google Plus profile, I encourage our clients to use it too and I pop on there at least once a week to see what’s what.
Why does Candy Crush Saga need TV ads?
In the heady and fast-paced world of online marketing, we’re often told that achieving social media awareness is the ‘promised land’ – we dream of things ‘going viral’, watching enviously as the likes of Gangnam Style rocket up the YouTube charts and wondering why the stuff we create for our clients don’t achieve the same level of awareness.
Achieving that nirvana of mass social awareness can completely revolutionise your fortunes. Fine, you might have optimised your PPC to within an inch of its life, you’ve got top SEO positions and your affiliate campaign is an award winner.
You might even have a few glossy-looking awards for your expensive TV campaigns on the office mantle piece. But underneath it all, you know that the level of awareness of your product can make or break you.
Cheggers gets wrists slapped by ASA for promo tweets
In the latest high-profile case of Twitter celebrities getting their wrists slapped by the ASA, Keith Chegwin has been sent to the virtual naughty step for not disclosing a promoted tweet he posted some time ago.
The tweet in question, posted at an unspecified time last year (and now deleted), suggested to Chegwin’s followers that they might like to visit a certain gambling website which he was the face of.
I won’t mention their names here, as I’m sure they’re getting plenty of SEO value from the coverage they’re already getting.
Either way though, by posting his tweet without using an ASA-approved hashtag such as #ad or #spon, Cheggers broke one of the ASA’s golden rules.