Category: Digital Marketing

  • Common Website Mistakes To Avoid

    We all see a lot of websites these days. But how often do you find yourself on a new site wondering what the company actually does or wants you to do next? It’s an all too common problem. In our haste to build websites, we often forget to look at the initial designs through our…

  • Friction Free Forms for Marketing Ninjas

    Happy New Year! I’ve written before about the dangers of asking too much of your site visitors before you have established a meaningful, value-based relationship with them. Now Lisa Margetis at Singlehop has reminded me of the importance of keeping any “asks” you must make of your customers as simple and pain-free as possible.

  • 50 Things You Don’t Need in 2014

    50 Things You Don't Need In 2014 from Wild Orange Media Ltd As 2013 draws to a close, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some well-loved things that suddenly find themselves obsolete in our fast-changing world. I can’t pretend this is a comprehensive list of all-things-obsolete, but coming up with…

  • The Basic Data Capture Mistake Almost Every Marketer Makes

    As marketers, we know a large part of our job is to collect as much data about customers and prospects as possible. Feeding the database gives us leads to qualify and valuable data to mine. So it makes perfect sense when we have something of value to these people—like some great content or special offers—that…

  • Content 1 Advertising 0 – Why Great Content Wins Today

    (This post by Allister Frost was first published on the Emarketeers’ blog) Content, content, content… It seems everyone in marketing these days is talking about content. The stats prove it too with the number of Google searches for “Content Marketing” soaring 10-fold in the last two years. And I’m a believer. I believe great content…

  • Selecting A College With Gen Z And Its Parents

    While preparing for my keynote address at The Association of Colleges’ Annual Digital Engagement and Marketing Conference in December I’ve recently been pondering some of the digital challenges facing education establishments. Selecting a college and course to study is up there with the most important decisions of our lives. But what has the greatest influence…

  • Mind The Gap – Consumers 1 v Marketers 0

    We live in a fast-changing world. Which means the longer you’ve held an opinion, the greater the chances your views may have fallen behind the times. The latest fast.MAP Marketing Gap study (the 9th annual edition) shows once again how disconnected some marketers’ views are from those of their customers. Let’s take a look at…

  • Visualise Anything – This Is the Average Man’s Body

    Technology is so powerful these days we can visualise almost anything we can imagine. But data visualisations don’t have to be dull. Pie charts, graphs and flow diagrams all have an important role to play, but sometimes a picture truly does paint a thousand words. That’s why I love this article from The Atlantic. From…

  • Don’t get SWAMmed–How LinkedIn is Fighting Spam

    Earlier this year LinkedIn quietly introduced a new featured called S.W.A.M. designed to reduce the volume of spam and unsolicited sales pitches on their platform. S.W.A.M. is short for Sitewide Auto Moderation and, in a nutshell, means that if one LinkedIn Group Manager blocks a person from their group, all future posts from that person…

  • Free digital marketing advice–my summer gift to you

    I had a great summer holiday break, and I hope you did too. Escaping from the world of work and spending time with family and friends helps me stay focussed on what life is really about. And it’s put me in a really good mood, even if I’m now back in the office putting out…