Learn To Create Content That Drives Traffic

Creating content is easy, creating content that’s a pleasure to read is harder, creating content that drives traffic is really tough. Whether you are driving traffic from social media to a website/landing page or from email to social media, the rules are the same. There are plenty of ways to boost the power of your …

How to Leverage Social Media for Events

How can you leverage social media for events? Corporate events are a great way to meet new people, increase brand awareness and demonstrate innovative services. In fact, a whopping 80% of marketers believe live events are critical to their company’s success, but with so many businesses embracing the whole ‘networking’ thing – how can you …

Why You Should Be Using Linkedin Video

Since its inception back in August 2017, LinkedIn native video became one of the most useful tools on the platform. Social media websites brought native video into the equation less than a decade ago, after observing the way users kept migrating towards areas featuring video content, such as YouTube or Vimeo. Vines (short-videos) assaulted the …

What The Content Manager Heard

“Quick! I need a 1000-word PR by 11am” shouts the CMO to the Content Manager at 10.45am. Because obviously it’s easy to source, write, edit and fact check an assignment of this size in 15 minutes. Sadly, there are many business leaders out there and indeed employees who think writing interesting, informative and on-brand content …

Social Media for Finance: Dealing with Compliance and Regulation

As a social media manager I have worked alongside large financial organisations to offer digital content guidance. In this article I’m going to tell you more about social media for finance including dealing with the dreaded compliance and regulation! For big banks, investment firms and financial brokers, social media is often low on the list …

Are Your Accounts Safe from Social Media Hacking?

Guest post at Agorapulse– leaders in social media management software. Unfortunately, when it comes to social media hacking and account security, you will probably only think about it when it’s too late. As a social media manager, you have a million things to think about every day. Creating campaigns, organizing graphics, responding to fans and …

The Delete Facebook Campaign and Why You Won’t Do It

Delete Facebook. Really? There are many reasons why you may have already contemplated deleting Facebook. Perhaps you find it ‘addictive’ and are worried about your own sanity; perhaps you think it absorbs too much of your spare time; or perhaps you’re simply not interested in what your friends and family are up to. Justifying your …

How Your Team Can Ace Social Media Collaboration

Guest post at Agorapulse, leaders in social media management software. Whether you’re a social media agency or a brand, there’s no doubt about one thing– coordinating multiple team members to work on a social media account is challenging. And when I say challenging, I mean hugely stressful. As the creative director at Contentworks, I’ve experienced the …

These Fitness Brands on Instagram Pump Hard (and you can too!)

Article originally published at AgoraPulse the home of social media management tools. Instagram is the perfect social network for fitness brands due to its highly visual, “curated” environment and the fact that Instagrammers are natural born shoppers! So let’s look at three fitness brands on Instagram who are running faster, pumping harder and jumping higher in 2016! nikewomen 3.6 …

Letters

Letters is the latest full moon inspired poem from Charli. And there it was. Some letters are just more valuable Trace the gold outline, the smooth curves C like sea or cat she stumbled Clumsy fingers grasping at the sound A silvery kiss or a sharp scratch That leaves a jagged imprint on your skin …