For those of you who follow my blog regularly (so both of you); you might know that I have recently made a change in my career; moving from Deloitte Consulting to HKLM – a strategic brand and communications agency. As part of my new role as Head of Digital Marketing I am looking at ways to …
As with most business buzzwords, thought leadership (and eminence) have become overused and misunderstood. The purpose and place of thought leadership is at its core a primary and effective way of positioning the author as an expert (read thought leader) in their field! To this end, thought leadership articles cannot be approached as “tick box” activities …
As we move more towards the postdigital – meaning that digital touches all parts of our lives; both at work and at home almost constantly; we face conundrums that force us to understand where certain functions in the organisation should it. One of the most paramount of these discussions is that of Digital Marketing. Should Digital …
Content creation is one of the most talked about areas of digital marketing at the moment; but there is a lot more to it than simply putting a lot of words down on a blog post before you can call it a content marketing strategy. Essentially there are initially 7 different aspects of content marketing …
Last week seems to have been the week of interesting digital marketing statistics. There were stats released that cover everything from AdWords right through to mobile ad spend and China! The following are my top 5 as well as some loose interpretation around them. 1. AdWords This one stirred up quite a bit of controversy …
So now that I have EVERYONE involved in SEO on some level’s attention; let’s unpack this statement a little further and see exactly what all of the hubbub is about and what patent Google has that could disrupt your SEO strategy. Essentially SEOBook ran an article on August 23 which spoke about “ranking modifyers”. The …
Initially when I started putting this post together, I wanted to talk about marketing specialists vs. marketing generalists. What I originally wanted to draw attention to is the fact that while we are experiencing a huge uptake of specialist marketing personnel, we might be missing the bigger picture. Let me expand. In a marketing department …
This article really does contemplate a very interesting question about search. Is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO); the concept that an entire industry has been build on, primarily around the awe-inspiring Google; shifting gear and morphing in to Search Optimisation? The hypothesis is quite simple. Where are people spending their time online and more importantly what are they …
I dove into the world of augmented reality today for the first time; and to tell you the truth I basically only just scratched the surface! First, augmented reality refers to a display in which simulated imagery, graphics, or symbology is superimposed on a view of the surrounding environment. Augmented reality really allows you to …
This is rather a weird thing to say when you look at it at face value. But the metaphor is really actually quite beautiful when you dig a little deeper in to it. When trying to solve a Rubik’s cube, you cannot just look at the move you are about to make in isolation, but …
