How Effective Is Your Facebook Landing Page?

When you’re advertising with Facebook you have the option to send traffic to your fan page or to a landing page. It’s very important to take the time to decide where you want to your traffic to go. Your ad is one thing but where you’re sending the traffic is something completely different and it… Continue reading How Effective Is Your Facebook Landing Page?

How Mobile App Development Impacts on Branding and Marketing

Static websites and open platforms could give way to the mobile app and tablet aesthetic as the focus on device-native applications may lead user experience further down the walled-in path of single brand bookmarking and a loss of open web functionality. It could be said that there is not a great deal of difference between adding… Continue reading How Mobile App Development Impacts on Branding and Marketing

High Noon for Spammers as Google Gets Out Their Guns!

Big changes are about to be announced from Google! The mighty search engine is starting to become agitated! Dark mutterings send advance warning ripples across the pond as company insiders issue cryptic statements! The next showdown with the spammers is about to happen real soon! Despite recent algorithm changes, the spam pandemic is threatening to… Continue reading High Noon for Spammers as Google Gets Out Their Guns!

Why You Must Reply To Your Followers Hue And Cry!

Savvy site owners are getting pretty keen on getting those nifty Twitter and Facebook buttons onto their home pages these days! Thing is of course, having them and using them, properly, can often be two different things! A Tweet today is not a sale tomorrow! Especially, if as recent findings show, you’re one of the… Continue reading Why You Must Reply To Your Followers Hue And Cry!

Google Switches On New Age of Social Media

The age of social media is formally inaugurated.  In the aftermath of the Google ‘Panda’ spam farms shakedown, a new manifesto declares future PageRank will also be indexed by web user site-blocking and social signal recognition. With advocacy marketing set to explode, it’s the savvy site owners who are lighting the touchpaper of shareable quality… Continue reading Google Switches On New Age of Social Media

Outsourcing Search and Social Is A Winner!

Now that social media sprints alongside the veteran pacers of SEO, paid and organic search, site owners have yet another lane they need to be running personal bests in if they are to make the podium of ranking glory and achieve conversion gold! Recent surveys suggest that the savvy elite recognize that outsourcing is the… Continue reading Outsourcing Search and Social Is A Winner!

Is Your Facebook Page Taking Centre Stage?

A little premature to start speculation – rumours of the imminent demise of email persist even as it’s continued high usage indicates the channel is in the rudest of health! But the rise of a powerful new internet empire of search and social media networking is in the process of a global reorganisation of the… Continue reading Is Your Facebook Page Taking Centre Stage?

2 key e-mail tips from SmartBrief

After Stephanie Miller’s recent guest post about optimizing the deliverability of e-mail marketing messages, we received several requests for more information about e-mail marketing best practices. With 10 years of e-mail marketing experience under our belt, we’ve learned a few things. Now it’s time for us to share with you. The golden rule: Do unto others …… Continue reading 2 key e-mail tips from SmartBrief

Turn your e-mail newsletter into a social-sharing hub

Your e-mail newsletter provides a great opportunity to act as a “connector” between the various consumer touch points that you maintain.  By adding social-sharing tools to share content as well as promoting links to connect with your brand on your social network pages within your e-mail newsletters, you empower subscribers to share.  It also allows… Continue reading Turn your e-mail newsletter into a social-sharing hub

Mobile marketing meets social media

For even more best practices on mobile marketing and other social-media topics,  check out the upcoming Social Media Success Summit, which SmartBrief is helping to organize. The event is fully online, so there are no travel expenses, and registration is still half-off for a limited time. 6 rules for building a successful mobile app Smartphone-powered mobile… Continue reading Mobile marketing meets social media