Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back with this week’s Top 5 Must-Know News for PR and marketing communications professionals. Facebook has just removed 559 brand pages and 251 profiles, because they’ve consistently broken its anti-spam rules. This means improved storytelling capabilities for brands. — SS.

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Top Five: Major Google Ad overhaul and more

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google is introducing new brands for its advertising products: Google Ads , Google Marketing Platform and Google Ad Manager. These new brands make it easier for advertisers and publishers to choose the right products to connect with the billions of people via Search, on YouTube, on Google Maps and Google Play, and more.

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How to be smart on Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter has gone mainstream as people, brands and organizations flock to the social network. Maybe there is no real value in Twitter, or at least, no value in the way a brand is using Twitter. Those with between 500 to 2,500 followers will likely be active personal users, small companies or less active corporate or brand users.

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Top Five: Should Facebook be regulated?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In this week’s Top 5 social media news for marketing and communications professionals we highlight new Google video display ads, a Forrester Research report on future digital marketing spend, TikTok’s FTC fine, Quora and potential Facebook regulation in the UK. Video comes to Google responsive display ads.

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Search marketing services every social media consultant should offer

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media is great for brand recognition, community engagement and public relations. Search marketing is part of the solution. A good social media consultant understands the basics of search engine marketing. A good social media consultant understands the basics of search engine marketing. Influencer marketing.

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Use an editorial calendar for content marketing

Sherrilynne Starkie

If you are into content marketing make 2014 the year you start an editorial calendar and keep it going all year long. This is an essential tool in producing quality, effective content that consistently supports marketing and business objectives. Although quality content is now more important in SEO, keywords do still play a role.

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