Tag: marketing

  • Three Charms But Four Alarms

    We humans love seeing choices or lists presented in groups of three. Three gives a natural balance to things, as does five or seven. But three really is the magic number for marketers and copywriters. A recent study for the Make-A-Wish Foundation sought to find the messaging sweet spot for securing charitable donations. They randomly…

  • 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…

  • Durex Condoms In Social Media Flop

    My friend Eileen Brown brought a delightful social media #fail to my attention today in her column on ZDNet. You’d have thought Durex Condoms would always play it safe, but their latest Facebook marketing campaign has turned into a bit of a flop thanks to a remarkable lack of planning (or should that be foreplay?)…

  • 3 Simple Steps to Creating Daily Content Gold

    We’ve all been there; it’s every community manager’s nightmare. Staring at that blank screen, racking your brain for fresh ideas about what to post to your social networks today. When writer’s block strikes sometimes the best thing to do is to walk away and formulate a new plan on how to avoid an idea logjam…

  • How to raise $500k for a start-up

    I like Buffer. It’s a great tool for posting staggered updates to social media channels and, as of last week, you can even schedule retweets now too. I also like their great customer service. But what I like most of all is their openness and generosity; two key ingredients for start-up success on the social…

  • Lessons From A Stiff Door

    This is the entrance door to a bistro. What’s the easiest option for the bistro owner: fix the door so customers cam come in easily or put up a sign telling them how they should use it? I know which option customers would choose. And we all know which option the bistro owner should avoid.…

  • How to Escape The Events Management Cycle of Despair

    I’ve written previously about the importance of carefully selecting which business conferences to attend and – more importantly – which to avoid. With an ever-tightening squeeze on marketing budgets and mounting pressure to “do more with less”, some event management companies face tough trading months ahead. But not every player in the conference business needs…

  • Free video webinar: B2B Buyer Engagement Through New Technology

    Yesterday I joined B2B Marketing’s Joel Harrison and co-founder of BrightTALK, Charlie Blackburn, in their London studio to talk about the challenge of securing buyer engagement through new technology channels. If you missed the live broadcast, the webinar recording is now available to view at: http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/1166/62437 I’d love to hear your feedback. And yes, I…