What to do if your content goes viral

Mar 3rd, 2016 in Online Marketing, Social Media, Web content marketing

One day you may have a brilliant idea for a Facebook post that you painstakingly write, or just out of the blue, a great response to a tweet comes to you. You may even share a really funny video that you think followers of your brand will perfectly relate to. Once it’s written, edited and…

How you can create a happy union between social media and PR

Feb 25th, 2016 in Online Marketing, Social Media, Web content marketing

Any company that fails to see the marketing goldmine that social media has provided for public relations, needs to seriously re-think their digital marketing strategy. Social media and PR have very similar roles in that they both deal with positive brand awareness as well as a degree of reputation management. Social media should not be…

What exactly is a content marketer?

Feb 18th, 2016 in Content Generation, Online Copywriting, Online Marketing, Web content marketing

According to The Content Marketing Institute, content marketing is defined as “a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action.” Like most professions that are created through advancements in modern day technology, it takes a while…

What makes Google happy (and gets you moving up the search results)

Feb 11th, 2016 in Content Generation, Online Marketing, Web content marketing

If you are actively involved with keeping your website relevant in the search engines, then you’ll have noticed that Google’s search algorithms have changed faster than it takes to refresh a page. So just when you’ve updated your website, cleaned up the clutter and landed yourself a whole page closer to the top of the…

Are you having a laugh? – Using humour in social media

Feb 7th, 2016 in Online Copywriting, Online Marketing, Social Media, Web content marketing

Engaging customers with humour is an easy way to win over your audience and gain a larger following, because people are a lot more likely to share content that makes them laugh. Nandos have built their brand around the witty remarks it makes about local news items that they link back to their product or…