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If Trad Digital Agencies Did Engagement/PR/Social (Who Moved My Cheese/Fees?)
Dear Mr/Ms Brand Manager, if the agency who builds your web properties is also responsible for engagement / PR / etc, then would they be building things differently? We think so…
Love Content? Set it Free! (It’s No Longer Yours Anyway)
I’ve been revisiting an old chestnut with a bunch of clients lately: why, where and when should we be free with our content? The answer to ‘when?’ is ‘as often as possible.’ The answer to ‘where?’ is (usually) everywhere; and the answer to ‘why?’ is neatly summed up in this PPT from Mike Ellis of Eduserve…
Social Media Planning: Informed Creativity vs Complicators vs Twankernomics
I’ve had a bunch of interesting responses from colleagues, clients and others to my recent post on Social Media and Creativity (Social Media Consulting vs Viral Advertising). Whilst some folks were offended, thankfully most of our clients seemed to like the idea that all this glitzy Social stuff should be based on some rational thinking.
Social Media Consulting vs Viral Advertising: Can All ‘Creatives’ Please Go Back to the 80s
Social Media consulting is not an opportunity to go wild with creative-led, viral-inspired, 60-second advertising. A virus is an illness – much like a Social Media plan without a stack of analytics to back it up and a deep understanding of how Social tools actually work and why people use them.
Social Media Lessons of 2009 – We Need Re-Wiring…
This end of decade post isn’t fueled by a crystal ball. Instead, I thought it’d be more valuable to reflect on what we learned last year. In a nut, Social Media has showed all us Marketeers that most of we do needs a spot of re-wiring…
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…
PR, Social Media and Content: Talk Different. Got It?
We don’t have to build new things in PR, Social Media and Marketing if we don’t want to, we just need to use the ones that exist already and use them to talk different. Not a rocket science thought. It’s all about content, not Content. Got it?
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…
Social Media ROI: the Return of Identity and the Hackett Story
Here’s another spin on the great Social Media ROI debate….Stop pretending to infuse leaders with someone else’s personality. Stop trying to distill fleeting thoughts into ghosted Think Pieces. Stop gambling on barnstorming creative virals and microsites. Stop wasting money…
Social SEO Smackdown: BING VS GOOGLE and Other Inter-Species Combat
At least two essential global inter-species combat tournaments are taking place. On the one hand, Microsoft has declared war on Google with its new(ish) search engine, Bing. On the other, a Fox is locked in an epic battle against three Azure Winged Magpies and a Chaffinch. Bite those ears off!
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….
Social Media Content and Online PR Strategy Map (A New Cut Out & Keep)
We put together this post in response to a common client request: HELP! Many brands are now stuck wondering how the hell to get any decent ‘play’ out of their Social Media content, assets and profiles. If this is you then check this out…
Content Optimisation Smackdown: Proust vs Google
For the copywriting purists out there, some of these content concepts can feel brutish at first …but our advice is always to work it. Content Optimisation can be the difference between a campaign that sticks with a top 10 Google ranking and one that sinks without a trace.
IAB Social Media Ad Metrics: A Weird Media Science and Common Sense Approach
The IAB released its Social Media Ad Metrics report earlier this month. It’s a mixture of Weird Scientology and a much needed dose of common sense on how we measure value and benefit in Social Media and Online PR…
Online PR, Social Media, SEO: What’s in a Label?
I’ve had a bunch of interesting conversations lately about the relative merits of the labels that we apply to all this new-fangled Social-Media-Online-PR-Optimisation game that we’re in. So here’s my view: my cards on the table, if you like…
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....
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