by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 29 Nov, 2011 | Content marketing, Digital marketing strategy, Social media marketing
Content marketing is a marketing tactic of creating and distributing content that is relevant and valuable to a specific target audience. This content, or engagement objects as I like to call them, aim to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 28 Nov, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis, Social media marketing
The reason I love data and website analytics so much is because it provides us with an incredible amount of data that can be analysed, interpreted and moulded into a variety of ways to look at it that gives us digital marketers insights into what our audience want,...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 23 Nov, 2011 | Mobile Marketing, Search Marketing
To be honest, this was not something that I had considered before but John Lynch from www.entrepreneur.com has convinced me that I definitely need to consider how Siri might change how we think about SEO for websites. John has raised, “could iPhone 4S Siri...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 22 Nov, 2011 | Online Advertising, Web Inspiration
When you think of Bing search engine, do you think Jay-Z? No? Me neither. That’s why this campaign is so brilliant. I wish I had been living in the states when this campaign launched in 2010, I would have loved to marvel at its simplicity but incredible...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 21 Nov, 2011 | Search Marketing
Search engine marketing, often known as SEM or PPC (pay per click) or just simply Paid Search, uses a variety of acronyms, that each represents a measurement or bidding strategy. I’ve tried to break them down and explain them below. Cost per click (CPC$) – When...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 21 Nov, 2011 | Search Marketing
Search engine marketing (SEM) is a discipline whereby search marketing professionals negotiate their way through a bidding exchange (for example, Google Adwords). Each professional tries to ensure their client’s brand shows up (ranks) on page 1 of Google’s search...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 21 Nov, 2011 | Search Marketing
SEM means Search Engine Marketing. It is often called PPC – Pay Per Click or Paid Search or often it has now been reduced to “adwords” as in Google Adwords. In my and many digital strategist’s opinion, search marketing is the most cost effective online marketing...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 17 Nov, 2011 | Content marketing, Online Advertising
I recently heard Jeffrey Cole speak for the first time. I wanted to share some of his ideas that I agree with. Jeffrey Cole thinks that the “tablet” but more specifically, the iPad is the biggest revolution in the digital world. He states that the reason...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 15 Nov, 2011 | Web Inspiration
I was at a conference last week where they were using Microsoft’s Kinect to scroll around the screen of a web browser. It did look like a lot of exertion to violently throw your arms up and down and side to side in an effort to scroll around a page but it was...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 9 Nov, 2011 | Necessary boring bits, Web Inspiration
The last 3 days of my life I have spent learning about the brain – or the mind, depending on how you like to look at it. I have listened to neuro scientists – both practicing, researchers and academics; psychiatrists; Buddhists; mental health sufferers...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 2 Nov, 2011 | Search Marketing
It can be frustrating for a digital marketer to hear small and large businesses talk about their websites SEO. It is often assumed to be a simple solution, a quick fix that can be done once and then said website will magically appear at #1 of Google’s search...