On behalf of a client we're hiring a Business Development Assistant position. Ideal first job for someone wanting a career in sales /biz dev for marketing agencies. The job will start with three months training and mentoring with me, Rebecca Caroe and then a permanent post will be offered if the training has been successful. [...]
A case study showing how to find new prospects for your service using social media. Here's a nice example of Twitter working for me. I wrote a blog post about creative agencies not using marketing tools for their own marketing I put it up on Twitter It was picked up by people who read my [...]
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Agencies in the UK don't use Web 2.0 for their own marketing. I started writing on this subject in 2007. Actually very instructive going back through my archive for references. Here are the main ones that I found. Read the research paper exec summary if you do nothing else… Web adoption rates for agencies (March [...]
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I wrote a piece back in May about an event hosted by Channel 4 and Sport England on how to use social media for grass roots sport communication. The Image by Leo Reynolds via Flickr and so I am re-linking to the article in case you want an update. Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$(‘div.d457′).each( function(e) [...]
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I Twittered this, but thought it so important that I have put it up here as well. Chris Brogan linked to this Constructing Social site. Constructing Social is a project begun by Colin Browning to provide a resource to those that are constructing and architecting social media sites. There is a list of categories under [...]
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From time to time I get work with a mergers and acquisitions company and today I've had an email from them asking for my help. If you ever come across, or know of, a small brand/packaging focused company, or unit, or team, who would be up for a discussion do let me know. I have [...]
Many thanks to Mireira Fontbernat from Qik who has uploaded video of the three speakers this morning (and a little bit of me doing introductions). Bloggers reactions: FreshNetworks' Helen Trim Charlie Robertson of Red Spider Quentin Boyes of Honeycomb Software Sadly the one of Andrew Howells of Zype didn't come out…. darn phone reception. Bookmark [...]
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Thanks to Nico Macdonald for inviting me to chair two sessions at his Media Futures Conference next week. I am going to be up there with Alex McKie and the guys from Plot…. Wicked! 11.00: Research in the real world – Alex McKie 11:30: Meet the people formerly known as… users – Gill [...]
I am hosting my third breakfast event. "Should Brands be Broadcasters?" on Wednesday 18th June, 2008 at One Alfred Place I run these breakfasts in order to showcase new ideas and innovative marketing thinking. Past speakers include Adriana Lukas on Social Media and Mark McGuinnes s on the Enneagram. Three speakers will give their unique [...]
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Dick Stroud of consultancy 20Plus30 5 things all digital agencies should know about aging 1 – when working for a client consider whether their product is age- neutral or not. Sites tend to get optimised for a younger age group. 2 – Age is not a good proxy for behaviour. The default is we are [...]
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