By now most businesses know that presence on Twitter is likely to boost their brand awareness amongst the audience and create a platform for interactive engagement.
Mobile marketing has gained tremendous momentum, owing to the sheer growth in mobile usage numbers. In the year 2012, rise in mobile device numbers paved way for a 70% growth in mobile traffic. Furthermore, 82% of mobile media time comes from app usage. These statistics are proof enough to demonstrate the power of mobile and the opportunities it presents to businesses who seek to reach mobile users.
Sometimes it helps to recall the clichéd. What cannot be monitored cannot be measured. Assuming your brand has adapted itself to being digitally savvy and is connected with users important to your bottom-line. Online marketing strategies have been carefully devised and intelligently implemented. But what about monitoring these efforts?
With its versatile and user-friendly features of instant messaging, multimedia sharing, contact addition and chat group creation, WhatsApp is probably the most popular messaging application across the globe, boasting 700 million active monthly users. As a networking platform, WhatsApp has opened doorways for communities and interest groups to connect with members with ease and share ideas.
Blogging for your brand, if done right, gives you the opportunity to engage with existing and prospective customers, gain leads, increase brand resonance among the target market and drive digital traffic to your sites in a cost-effective manner. Yet, despite your content creation and curation efforts, you may face a common challenge– where is my blog traffic?
Looks like the search giant is not in a hurry to release the next Penguin update this year end. With holidays looming over, it could happen only next year.
But what was special about this update? This Penguin update was supposed to be a real-time version of the algorithm. That means, if Google discovers a particular link attributed to your site is removed (whether it’s a good link or a bad one), the Penguin algorithm will process it in real time and the consequent changes in ranking will also be effected almost real time.
While creating a multi-channel marketing and communication strategy, certain key platforms of online marketing such as digital marketing and social media marketing will be an indispensable part of the grander scheme of things. In the midst of piecing together your online marketing puzzle, you will ask yourself the question – Do I really need a blog for my business?
When it comes to social media, there are certain things that work with your target audience, and certain things that just don’t click. The plethora of options to socially engage with relevant consumers today leaves businesses in a fix – what approach do I adopt to build an engaging and meaningful relationship with my core consumers? A closer look at your competitors, especially the socially successful and socially savvy ones, could hold the answer to your dilemma.
Twitter, the micro-blogging and social networking site, is a goldmine for businesses who want to build their brand on social media platforms. As a brand building medium, Twitter is powerful as it offers businesses an avenue to share bite-sized, interesting pieces of content with their follower base. It is a great tool for direct interaction with your audience and online communities, networking with industry experts, generating relevant leads and directing traffic to your website. One brand that has effectively leveraged Twitter is Innocent – the U.K smoothie maker with over 200,000 followers, says that its success lies in responding to relevant tweets by followers, and posting re-tweetable content.
