Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top five: New features tools and services from the ‘Big Three’ (plus Pinterest)

Sherrilynne Starkie

This is going to be a popular feature for many (I’m looking at you Donald ), including brands. This cool feature will allow longer form content onto Twitter which make it a more relevant channel for brands. This is big news for retailers and lifestyle brands wishing to boost instore sales. Pinterest introduces QR type codes.

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Storytelling: how to for businesses

Sherrilynne Starkie

Stories draw people together, create community and build consensus, trust and loyalty. For a company that sells cleaning products, for example, the message might be that the brand supports modern parents in raising happy, well-adjusted children. It’s a wholesome message that will build trust and loyalty among those who hear it.

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The Oscars: content marketing success

Sherrilynne Starkie

One thing is for certain, the Oscars are a true social media global phenomenon which clearly demonstrate the power of content marketing in driving social conversation and therefore awareness, loyalty and, undoubtedly, sales. Top tips for bloggers and brands. There were more than 8.9 That’s the connection that social media brings.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

It’s a service that helps brands engage directly with people in emerging markets via mobile phones. Jana uses airtime rewards as currency and conducts consumer research, product promotions and consumer loyalty campaigns. A good example is Jana, a company that makes users a partner in their own data.

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Analytics: what are you really learning?

Sherrilynne Starkie

It can be difficult to show that have a thousand Facebook fans for 10,000 Twitter followers delivers product sales or votes or brand loyalty. Getting a solid return on investment in social media is tough to measure. It takes digging deeper into the data, past the top line metrics to get the real insight that matters.

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