There’s a lot of advice floating around which practices work best for social media marketing, but only recently have people begun talking about social media customer care (SMCC). A recent infographic from onlinewebsitebuilder in the UK reveals some interesting stats around this emerging sector. What is it? SMCC is the service of responding to […]
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A new year is always a good time to get up-to-speed on the latest legal rulings around digital marketing. With this in mind the clever clogs from Gadens Lawyers have put together a handy infographic around Refer-A-Friend promotions. We had a chat with Allison Rickard from Gadens about what to keep in mind when
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Email marketing is one of the most important tools to a marketer. Compared to other marketing channels, email provides the highest average ROI of $38 for every $1 spent. Mail it in Despite the importance of email, many marketers struggle with not being able to set appropriate goals and benchmarks around their email strategy. Without
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MailChimp is launching a new landing page creation service that promises to be easy, effective and to work from directly within the eDM service. Piecing together the promo puzzle MailChimp calls landing pages are an indispensable piece in the marketing puzzle and they cite landing pages’ resurgence as enterprise sales tools. Further justifying their role
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What’s better than paid influencers? Free ones who actively advocate your brand online in the same way. One start-up is harnessing the power of such advocates for the strategic benefit of brands online. One born every minute They call themselves Photoslurp, and they’re sucking up every last drop of free branded content on social media.
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Streaming services like Spotify are connecting brands to captive audiences. Now, you can tap that to sell non-music things on the music platform. From merch to marketplace When Spotify partnered with Merchbar, it showed that the music platform was taking its sales potential seriously. At first, band shirts and hats seemed like obvious sellers. Innovative cross-marketing
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While most stats around Facebook tend to be big, dizzyingly big in most cases, some are more relevant than others. So we’ve sifted through the stats to pluck out the most pertinent data for marketers in 2018. Big Business Facebook’s passed the 2 billion monthly user mark in Q3 last year, marking a 16% year-on-year
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A fresh coat of paint on Google Maps may have knock-on effects for colour schemes and embeds that use the popular wayfinding service. As good as a holiday The official word from Google: they’re updating the look so it ‘better reflects your world, right now.’ In practice, this includes tweaked classifications, new icons, a new
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After its initial launch as a service exclusively for YouTube influencers, Amazon is expanding its influencer program to incorporate other mainstream channels too. Welcome to the jungle Amazon’s Influencer Program includes custom storefronts and calculated commissions for approved influencers. Until now, it’s scope has been limited: only established YouTube stars could take advantage. Now, recognised
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New year, new you? If you’re looking to shake up your marketing mix this year, you’ve probably got video on the horizon. With that in mind, let’s take a walk through the latest YouTube factoids. Look at this YouTube has over 1.5 billion monthly active users – that’s behind Facebook’s 2.1 billion, but ahead of
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