Facebook told to conform to EU regulations, Snapchat launches mental health feature, Amazon advertising budgets to increase, LinkedIn Sales Navigator Gmail extension shutdown, New Twitter Threads feature
This week has seen Facebook's calls for lighter regulations rebuffed by EU regulators who have told the platform it needs to fall in line.
Snapchat is hoping to improve wellbeing on its platform with the introduction of a new feature.
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Advertisers on Amazon are set to increase budgets this year as the platform saw strong revenue growth in 2019.
LinkedIn is to shut down its Sales Navigator Gmail extension in March.
Finally, Twitter has introduced a new feature for Threads but people are still moaning about the lack of an 'edit' feature for tweets.
We've got all the details in this week's news roundup:
EU regulators tell Facebook to conform to standards
Facebook has been told that it needs to work in-line…
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1. Use Attribution to measure the ROI of your campaigns
To gain a true view of the performance of your retargeting activity, you must measure it within an analytics or attribution tool. This will allow you to see the…
Google Alerts is no longer enough. You need software that will go beyond blogs and news websites to monitor everything that’s going on with your brand.
When it launched, Google Alerts was a revolutionary service. For the first time, Google made content monitoring available to anybody. Whether you were a business owner or a Britney Spears fan (that’s a 2000s reference, right?) you’d get notifications every time someone mentions the keyphrase you put in the GA search bar, an option that was previously only available to huge corporations.
However, monitoring the Internet in 2003 was much easier: Facebook was still a college-based startup, Twitter didn’t even exist yet, and the social interactions were happening mostly around blogs. If you wanted to find out what people were saying about your brand, personal blogs were the place to be, or rather, monitor.
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Content marketing that makes use of SEO should be a core marketing strategy for any e-commerce company
Are you looking for a way to systematize your e-commerce content marketing? Would you like to be able to more easily delegate the keyword research and content creation tasks to one of your subordinates? Would you like to turn all of this into a standard operating procedure that can be used over and over again?
In this post, I'm going to walk you through an overview of a very specific process that can be used by e-commerce companies for their SEO and content marketing. At the end of the post, I'll point you to a number of pre-made standard operating procedures that you can easily download for customization and use within your e-commerce business so that you can more easily convert your target audience into customers.
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A step-by-step guide to producing a plan that will attract, engage and delight customers
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The term 'inbound marketing' originated in 2006, coined by Hubspot to explain how marketers can attract interested prospects using content marketing, social media and SEO. According to Hubspot:
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Hubspot’s framework distills inbound marketing into three components.
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Understanding differences in culture can help you build more effective content to reach beyond borders
You only need to travel abroad or spend time with people who don’t come from the same place as you to see the impact of culture. The way a person acts, interprets or responds to different situations will be, to a great extent, influenced by their own cultural context.
There are many examples of brands trying to take culture into account and unfortunately, the results are not always positive. Whilst some receive industry appreciation and sales uplifts, some are left writing official apologies.
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Recent news stories have shown influencers in a bad light, which could impact their effectiveness when it comes to brand partnerships
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However, you have to question whether influencers take things a little bit too far and whether they are actually influential in the first place. It’s all well and good working with a brand that you believe in and want to recommend to followers, but the influencer world now seems to be more about freebies than authentic recommendations.
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The first 90 days as a marketer can tell you a lot about the business and its customers, as well as help you show what type of marketer you are
“Ergh, urm I - er, I’m not sure”.
That was me back in 2008 when I started my career in marketing and was introduced - unexpectedly - to my MD. I wasn’t expecting to bump into them, and at that moment when I was asked who I was and what I planned to do in my new role - a simple question - I lost the ability to speak.
Why hadn’t I prepared an elevator pitch for this very reason?
What a great first impression from the marketer who’d said in the interview she had the ability to communicate effectively and, as such, would be the right candidate to help craft the voice of the business.
After this, I swore I’d always prepare for whatever…
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But how do you make sure that your website’s user experience is on par with your visitors’ expectations?
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