Although most brands confine their analysis of social sharing to share buttons and email newsletter tracking, our latest experiment shows that 87% of all shares are made through copy-and-paste direct from the address bar.
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been an easy way to track this data, until now.
Every time I meet with new digital teams, although each is different, I’ve started to notice they all share a similar trend of challenges.
Surprisingly it isn’t always what you’d expect, it’s simply the ability to have everyone working together towards an aligned goal to get things done.
All agencies operate in a competitive landscape, where despite key strengths and differentiation points, everyone broadly does the same job.
We offer similar services to clients, we have common skillsets, etc – so what makes an agency successful?
We asked The Agency Collective to speak to 12 agency owners, founders and directors about what essential traits an agency must have in order to be successful and build long and mutually beneficial relationships with their clients.
Relying on Google is a risky game. It always has been, but ever-increasingly over the last two years it’s becoming clear that relying heavily on Google traffic can hold an uncertain future.
I’ve seen a huge amount of brands who are performing extremely well via organic search, some are great at PPC, others social media.
Within their own specific channels they’re killing it, or perhaps more importantly making an absolute killing! But it’s getting more difficult and with more competition, comes bigger budgets and tighter margins.
As consumers, we are all extraordinarily powerful these days. The wonderful web offers us the chance to hunt out the very best bargains, to research our purchases thoroughly and to read up on what other consumers have to say about products.
It’s an excellent time to be a shopper and service user, but for retailers and service providers this presents many
new challenges. Some businesses have embraced the way the web has
transformed their customer base but others have been slow in catching
up.
Over the last 12 months, we’ve started to see some significant shifts in the agency model and client-agency relationship. Having been involved in working with and running a number of agencies since 2003, I thought I’d share the direction I see things heading.
In some way this is a series of mini-posts, so you might want to grab a cup of tea first! But it should go to show the challenges agencies face in order to keep evolving and stay on top of their game.
I know a lot of people who are great marketers, but when blogging they often worry that they don’t have something which is important or unique enough to share online.
Normally this is at the risk that someone may have said something similar before.
That makes sense in a lot of ways and it is a valid concern which I admit to thinking myself when creating new content, or speaking at an event. Of course you always want to impress by telling people something they don’t know.