Papers
We like to think deeply about stuff, do it, and then write it down (or tape it) so that you can also do wonderful things with Social Media, Content Optimisation, Online PR, SEO and the like.
Here’s our library of best practices. Use it freely and tell us what you make of it.
Your Social Media Event Communication Kit Bag
We like to extend the value of bog standard marketing events to Social Media and the wider world. Here’s our best practise ‘Kit Bag’ for doing it. Have a browse, use it, and tell us what you think.
8 Useful Google Search Operator Combinations (feat. Michael Barrymore)
In my last post, I outlined a comprehensive list of Google search operators, and now I’m upping the ante by outlining useful combinations based on my original list…
Blog Planning: Using Content Trending and Social Analytics to Overcome Writer’s Block
Finding sufficient inspiration to fuel a daily, weekly or even monthly blog post can prove a struggle – and choosing a subject that will also attract traffic is an even tougher call. Here are some simple tips for planning a content schedule that will take the headache out of blogging.
LinkedIn Marketing & Social Media Business Strategy
Contrary to what you might think, LinkedIn isn’t just a place for hosting your CV or looking for a job online. Since its launch in 2003, the site has expanded considerably with a raft of new features such as polls, sponsored advertising and a Facebook-esque applications platform for third-party website integration
Your Social Media Content Schedule
Sometimes the volume of updates on your Social Media platforms can be overwhelming. You may well be looking at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and your blog each day with a rising sense of panic, thinking “how on earth am I going to update all of these?”
Google Research Notes: SERP Refinements and What They Mean To You
Here at C&M, we like to stay abreast of what those clever peeps at Google are up to, and recently they’ve been making some slight changes to their search engine. Here’s our round up… A quick overview of the changes afoot, and what they might mean to you…
Tweet Here, Tweet Now: How to Get a Social Media Agency to Ace Your Event
More and more people are switching on to Twitter as a means to keep up and interact with important events and fun happenings in real time. Here’s how to enhance your event and create a buzz through live-tweeting.
Social SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) Through Clever Content Creation
Creating optimised ‘Social’ content to rank for key terms isn’t a new idea but the search results are becoming more eclectic …So I’d like to run through which content types regularly appear in the SERPs and how to use this content to clamber through the sweaty throng of competing pages…
Beginner’s Social Media Guide – Free, Easy and Good to Go…
How to Win Friends and Influence People With Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and the Blogosphere. Here’s our simple (downloadable) four step plan for doing effective, results-driven Social Media and Online PR work… Tell us what you think!
More Free Social Media, Content Optimisation and Online PR Agency Papers from C&M
Free is good, right? Useful is even better. Here’s a roundup of some of our recent white papers, think pieces and case studies …all in a highly desirable, super sharable, PDF format….
A Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Campaign Execution
A ‘101’ view on how to research and implement a basic Online PR / Social Media campaign, with practical advice on using Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and the Blogsphere for successfully seeding campaign ideas.
The Five Step ‘Shut Up, Listen and Spin’ Guide to Online PR and Social Media Agency Work
Confused about all this Social Media Agency witchcraft? Well, help is at hand. Taking the pretentious out of PR, this paper demystifies all this hip digital marketing stuff and show you how we execute a basic Online PR campaign – in under 10 pages!
Party Harder: Five Basic Theories of Social Media Marketing
In order to engage with your audiences online, you need to shape your words, messages and tactics around their agendas, not yours. In other words, your Online PR efforts need to be a whole lot more social than they have been up until now. Here’s how to do it properly…
QuickStart Guide to Better SEO Copywriting
Our new best practice paper doesn’t beat about the bush. Nope. It’s our QuickStart guide to Content Optimization & how to radically improve your PageRank by doing better SEO content writing.
What’s a Social Media Agency?
Rocket science not included. Proceed at ease...
Get the Scoop on Social Media PR…
Been there, seen it, bought T-Shirt, wrote it up....
What the Hell is Social SEO?
Clue: it's not spammy and it adds value to users....
ONLINE PR & SOCIAL MEDIA AGENCY KNOW-HOW
Online PR & Social Media Blog /// MORE
Say Hello to Paul, Our Very Affable New Head of Accounts
As our original ad for the role stated, Paul’s job is to be more Mad Men than IM, Twitter, Foursquare and the rest. His job is to talk to all of our clients – preferably at a distance of three paces, and to get the Martinis in whenever they’re needed. Oh, and to always have a glowing report to hand.
Why do 95.769% of Social Media Projects Fail? PLANNING!
In C&M’s experience, failure to deliver value on Social Media projects is 95.769% down to the lack of a plan. Why? Because 95.6579% of the time Social Media is seen as free
