Sherrilynne Starkie

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Our Hamilton public engagement campaign turns PR disaster

Sherrilynne Starkie

The Ottawa-based public engagement consulting firm behind the disastrous ‘Our Voice, Our Hamilton’ campaign certainly learned a lot about high emotion, conflict and controversy within a few hours of its launch. On Monday, Day One of the $376,000 campaign, Dialogue Partners tweeted, “What is ‘ HSR ’?” Photo: tourismhamilton.com.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. But, my challenge to you is to put that paradigm aside and think about the four main groups media types.

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Top Five Social Media Must Knows: The new Google News

Sherrilynne Starkie

In addition, customers that have Hootsuite Impact will also be able to measure their Pinterest account growth and analyze the performance of individual Pins as part of their integrated marketing strategy and associated campaigns. WhatsApp rolls out a new feature for group chats. WhatsApp has just announced “Restricted Groups”.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. But, my challenge to you is to put that paradigm aside and think about the four main groups media types.

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Do lead forms actually work?

Sherrilynne Starkie

I recently ran a poll of my Facebook Group members about online forms. I think this group, as marketing pros, tends to participate more. As a Facebook PRO Partner I run hundreds of ad campaigns for clients targeting consumer audiences, and I can see a clear drop off in lead forms. Sixteen per cent had done so in the last month.

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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

The ultimate goal is to create and strengthen relationships with the key stakeholder groups an organization depends upon for success. This means finding opportunities, collaborating on campaigns, sharing content and audience insights. They are effective managers. They are metrics geeks.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. This is important because the majority of Instagram users are in the 22 to 35-year-old age group. Canadian Media Consumption Trends.

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