Category: Social Media

  • How to make friends with your LinkedIn QR code

    How to make friends with your LinkedIn QR code

    LinkedIn is the world’s biggest professional social networking tool. So it’s a great way to find interesting people and follow their news. But it’s also pretty handy for when you meet interesting people in real life… Once upon a time, the LinkedIn app had a groovy “Find Nearby” feature that allowed you to connect with…

  • Being a Good Influence(r)

    Being a Good Influence(r)

    I’m often asked what the rules are governing promotional activities carried out by influencers, whether a hired-in celebrity or members of staff or partner firms. Until recently the guidance has been quite vague, but some recent publications from the ASA and CMA have clarified things a bit, at least here in the UK. Back in…

  • Latest Facebook Ad Targeting Options

    Latest Facebook Ad Targeting Options

    We’ve once again updated our Precision Ad Targeting Planning Worksheet for Facebook (UK Edition) and many of the changes we predicted earlier this year have come true. As Facebook wrestles to restore its reputation and curtail inappropriate advertising activities like excluding certain people from offers, it has removed some of its more contentious demographic targeting…

  • Latest Updates to Facebook Ad Targeting Options

    Latest Updates to Facebook Ad Targeting Options

    We’ve been monitoring Facebook’s ad targeting choices for several years and our latest audit reveals a number of significant changes. As always, we’ve listed out all the available audience segmentation choices available in our Ad Targeting Worksheet which is now available for free download from here. So, what’s changed for UK marketers in recent months?…

  • The Vicious Circle of Social Media ROI

    The Vicious Circle of Social Media ROI

    Convince & Convert has just released its 2017 State of Social Marketing report and it makes for an interesting read. The study questioned more than 2,700 social media marketers working both client side and in agencies in over 100 countries. It’s important to keep this in mind, because the results presents an inside-industry view of the…

  • Two Billion People and Counting

    Two Billion People and Counting

    When a young Mark Zuckerberg gave ‘theFacebook’ its debut at Harvard College in February 2004, few would have dared imagine it could ever turn a profit, let alone survive for more than a few years. Yet here we are, almost 5,000 days later, and Facebook, as it’s now known the world over, has just steamrollered…

  • Updates in the new LinkedIn desktop experience

    Microsoft secured final regulatory approval of its $26.2 billion cash-only acquisition of LinkedIn in December 2016, and the social network has already undergone some substantial changes. There’s an all-new look for desktop users. Out goes that tired, dated menu bar, and in comes a new, simplified iconography-based navigation bar.   LinkedIn’s messaging tools also now…

  • Why you’ll love Audiense (formerly SocialBro)

    Last week SocialBro, a Twitter and Instagram audience insight and monitoring platform, rebranded as Audiense. Once you get past the post-modern deliberate misspelling* of a well-known word, I think you’re going to enjoy finding out more about this tool. First up, aside from the free Twitter Analytics tool, the best bits of Audiense have to be paid…

  • Free Download – Planner for Facebook Advertising Targeting

    We wrote previously about the awesome power of ad targeting in Facebook. But things just got even better! With the recent addition of the Detail Targeting choices in Facebook it’s now possible to direct adverts towards people who maybe have an interest in one thing (e.g. Bodybuilding) but not in another (e.g. Running). This creates opportunities for…

  • Using LinkedIn Better and More Cheaply

    Change is never easy, is it? But if there’s one New Year’s resolution I’m proudly sticking to, it’s the one about making better use of LinkedIn to manage my personal brand and find like-minded people to support me in my work. And, for many smart people, using LinkedIn better takes little more than remembering to use the…