Category Archives: Corporate blogging

Social media agencies really are social

I once had a punch up in a Manchester bar with an eminent publisher and businessman (you know who you are). Yes, I know it’s not big and it’s not clever. But, to be fair to us both, it was 20 plus years ago when our testosterone was raging and yes, of course, it did [...]

You are what you wear. Or are you?

For as long as I can remember, ‘agency people’ have been put in convenient, clichéd boxes to enable recruiters and employers to categorise and filter the individuals they’re after. This goes something like:

The suits. Generally the account managers who liaise between the client and the agency. Also encompasses those involved in strategy, planning and new [...]

Barriers to brands using Social Media Marketing

Two things seem to prevent bigger brands and companies using Social Media Marketing. There may be more but these are what we are sensing in the current situation.

Important notification to marketeers – Digital Switchover

What is the digital switchover?
The digital switchover is the process of turning off the UK’s use of ineffective analogue marketing tactics and replacing it with a digital marketing strategy.
Why is it happening?
The digital switchover is a sensible policy. It will mean that every company and brand will be able to receive digital marketing services through [...]

New Facebook Lite site

We’ve managed to obtain a sneak preview of the new Facebook Lite site.  Here it is: