Over the past couple of years companies have been spending more of their marketing and communication budgets on digital and social media. 72% of the PR firms polled by the 2015 Holmes Report rated digital and social as one of their top three growth drivers. Statista predicts that by 2019 spend on social and digital media will grow to $17 billion in the US alone. In 2013 … [Read more...]
Lack of Digital Skills Hampers Company Progress
Employees are aware of their lack of digital skills, they know these skills are vital to the success of the business and they're keen to improve. Almost half said they'd use their own time to learn these skills. But due to budget constraints companies are not investing in digital skills training. (Source: VMWare survey) The survey shows that digital skills are … [Read more...]
Visibility is More About Social Than Search
Guest post by Chris Abraham, Digital Strategist at Gerris Corp. Google Penguin and Panda have changed the face of search forever. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Sites that have dominated search in the recent past are being penalized or de-indexed, going from the first page to page twenty or being … [Read more...]
Social Media Usage Skyrockets in Last Decade
Back in 2005 when Pew started tracking social media usage just 7% of adults were active on social networking sites. Today that number is 65%. Over the years Pew has monitored how the rise of social media has affected our work, relationships and communication patterns and how these changes have affected business and politics. An analysis of their reports over the … [Read more...]
Working with Influencers #ViralChat Q&A
#viralchat is a Twitter chat hosted by Post Planner on Thursday at 9 pm ET. Last night's topic was working with influencers. Here are the questions and my expanded answers. Q1: Why are influencers important to a business wanting to grow a Twitter presence? A1: Let's first define an influencer - if you have influence it means that you can create an effect, you can … [Read more...]
