Sherrilynne Starkie

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What’s your social media marketing budget?

Sherrilynne Starkie

What should be your social media marketing budget? In the not-too-distant past, marketers used three per cent of turnover as the marketing budget ‘rule of thumb’. Start by pinning down exactly what you want social media marketing to do for your organization. The post What’s your social media marketing budget?

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Five content marketing tricks of a great social media consultant

Sherrilynne Starkie

Here’s five content marketing tricks to improve content marketing initiatives. As in most professions, an experienced social media consultant knows certain tricks of the trade to content marketing work better, faster, easier. Dark Arts of Content Marketing. Trick 1: Be specific when setting goals. the start.

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What is Earned Media?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Earned media, often referred to as PR coverage, is growing in importance for today’s digital marketing success. Companies and brands that had previously dropped PR to focus just on content marketing are once again waking up to the incredible power of positive media coverage. Ransomware costs Canadian companies as much as $2.3

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Is Facebook advertising worth it?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Because Facebook ads are so highly targetable, they are extremely cost efficient. According to AdEspresso, the average cost-per-click for Canadian advertisers is 20 cents. Another option is the CPM (cost per thousand impressions) payment type. These tend to be lower in cost than CPC so work well with awareness objectives.

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

That’s why I was surprised to see the concept resurrected in a recent report from InfluencerDB , an influencer marketing software company, which uses Earned Media Value (EMV), the cash value of attention a brand gets on social media. First of all, it’s easy to buy followers and costs as little as $10 for a thousand.

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nBA Pulse: a new social analytics tool

Sherrilynne Starkie

While I did not get all my questions answered (fees and costs), I was sufficiently impressed with the social analytics package that I decided not only to write a blog post about it, but I agreed to have some of my comments summarized in the launch news release. Related posts: Analytics: what matters to content marketers?

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How to make gorgeous ebooks

Sherrilynne Starkie

One goes into a lot of detail about the skills required to be at the top of your game in PR, marketing and communications. eBooks for Content Marketing. These ebooks are doing a great job in building my marketing list for me. Designrr doesn’t cost the earth either so I’m pleased with the ROI. Have a look.

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