Social Media Marketing
How Plain Lazy Uses Social Media to Build Customer Relationships
Nice little write up here from Marketing Donut on how our client Plain Lazy is using Social Media favourites like YouTube, Flickr and Facebook to do some neat acquisition and retention work…
What Skittles Did Next… Social Media Re-Mixed
Skittles’ recent social media campaign has garnered quite a bit of comment in recent months. In one of the bravest moves by a large brand in recent memory, Skittles transformed their entire website into a feed displaying all mentions of Skittles on Twitter.
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.
The @BBC Twitter Conundrum
Like many large corporations, the BBC has numerous different Twitter profiles representing its many departments and programmes around the world, but what should be done with the so far silent @BBC Twitter profile? Here are a few ideas.
Online PR/What Bloggers Really Want
I love this blog post. Every trad PR person who wants to understand how to do better work with blogs should read it. In a nut, THINK LIKE A BLOGGER and you will succeed…
Sentiment Analysis and Helping the Robots Understand Sarcasm
As we all know from watching Terminator 2 and The Matrix, robot-human communication can be rocky. Machines can’t understand human love or sarcasm. However, an enterprising company from America has aimed a little lower with a tool to help robots understand that other mystery: sarcasm.
The Best of the Best: Round-up 2009
2009 was big for C&M: not only did we learn a lot, we also shared a lot of what we learned via this blog. With this in mind, we thought it would be good to start 2010 with a roundup of the best posts of last year…
Fabulous Facebook Page Apps
If you’ve got a Facebook page but are at a bit of a loss when it comes to filling it with fabulous things, why not try some apps? Apps can help your page stand out from the crowd, as well as providing extra functionality for your page and fresh ways to connect with your audience. Here are our top picks…
Social Media Campaign: Continental Winter Tyre Safety & Road Value of 20p Coins
For the frosty season, last week saw our re-launch of Continental’s Tyres for Life site – including a bunch of neat Social Media widgets and some top new winter tyre safety tips from Continental and BTCC racer Fiona Leggate…
Five Free Facebook Tools to Enhance Your Social Media Campaign
With Facebook becoming increasingly useful for businesses, we thought it was about time we did a roundup of Facebook tools and how they can help you get more out of your professional Social Media activities.
Social Media Measurement & ROI: New Tricks for Old Dogs, But Still the Same Old Dogs
Social Media is not the ‘new marketing’ per se. The aims remain the same. In other words… teach the Old Dogs new tricks, techniques, metrics, etc. But they’re still the same Old Dogs – acquisition, interactions, awareness, SEO, etc… Here’s a handy ‘Cut Out & Keep’ diagram to explain…
Google Goes Real Time: Social SEO Now Big Time?
If the goal is to stay on page one of the SERPs all of the time then no doubt we’ll see a raft of real-time-content-optimisation-update-bots that happily spew out a stream of SPAM via any Social Media profile you may care for… but to go this route would be short sighted…
A Social Media Case Study / How To: Escape Studios #CGWhiz Campaign
Here’s a sneak peek at the results of our recent #CGWhiz Social Media campaign with leading CG and VFX Academy, Escape Studios. The project was a barnstorming success. Find out why (includes PPT with tactics, metrics and results)….
Google Wave: First Impressions and Buzz Round-up
It seems the web has gone slightly bonkers over Google Wave. With invites being offered across the Twittersphere, and enterprising/mercenary individuals putting them up for sale for as much as $50 each on eBay, what could possibly justify this incredible amount of interest?
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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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…
The Google Round-up Rodeo
Every morning, my first thought on waking is, invariably, ‘What have Google been doing while I was asleep?’ I rub my bleary eyes, stretch, and let out a moan so wretched and foul that nuns across the world shudder as one, cross themselves and invoke the Holy Father. Why do I get so upset? Because no one has compiled a short blog post rounding up minor changes that Google have made to their search engine.
