Barcelona’s Hidden City Tours is a social enterprise that is changing lives one tourist attraction at a time. By Ayana Byrd When Lisa Grace was on maternity leave from her marketing job in Barcelona, her employer fired her. The British expat could have returned home to take advantage of the more woman-friendly employment laws … Continue reading This Company Is Putting The Homeless To Work–As Tour Guides
by Christina Fuda October 8th, 2014 Most of us are familiar with the judicial principle that people are considered innocent unless enough evidence surmounts to prove them guilty. This judicial right comes out of basic human ethics in that it’s bad to have guilty people go free, but it’s worse to have innocent people punished … Continue reading How To Prove Your Website Can Be Trusted (& Increase Conversions Easily)
If you want to transform your business into a social business, it’s great, but often we see many companies that are only focusing on getting lots of people to join them on the social media channels they are going to use. They only focus on getting traffic, lots of followers, likes, etc. The truth … Continue reading 3 things you need to get right to become a truly social business
We talk about the idea of creating trust every week with our clients. At my agency, MMG, we call this equation basic marketing math: Know + Like + Trust = Sales. Translated – you will never make a sale if the prospect doesn’t know you exist, doesn’t like both what you sell and who you … Continue reading Is There a Recipe for Creating Trust?
New plans include a shift in payment strategy, new video formatting, and partnerships with Hollywood producers. By Peter Wade YouTube wants to retain its stable of digital stars and is planning to invest millions of dollars to do so. The video-sharing website is pursuing new deals that would pay popular content creators–like Fast Company cover … Continue reading YouTube Invests Millions To Keep Its Top Stars Home
How can you tell when an employment relationship has run its course? And what if you’ve figured it out, but the employee hasn’t? Often, the problem is a function of fit: The organization has evolved in some way or the job itself has changed, but the employee has not adapted. Or maybe the employee wasn’t … Continue reading 3 Reasons and 3 Ways to Help Someone Out … of Your Organization
It is ironic that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has complained to the European Commission about Google – but it has become like a giant octopus, gobbling up and stifling everything At nearly $400 billion, Google is capitalised at four and a half times the combined market worth of Mr Murdoch’s Twentieth Century Fox and News … Continue reading One day, even Google will go into decline
Oversaturation of TV and online advertisements never really bothers me because I don’t watch much television and I turn a blind eye to annoying ads on the Web. One exception is the public service announcement co-developed by the Ad Council and non-profit Connect2Compete. The duo calls the public service announcement EveryoneOn. I have seen the … Continue reading Advertising Oversaturation Hits Home
By Rowan Pelling Does literature have any finer representation of the brain-fog known as writer’s block than James Mortmain – aka “Father” – in Dodie Smith’s great coming-of-age novel I Capture the Castle? Mortmain’s first book, Jacob Wrestling, was a critically acclaimed, if “difficult”, work, but he lost inspiration following a prison term … Continue reading It’s hard to find the words to describe writer’s block
Content marketing is akin to putting a face on your company or brand. Content’s role is to build the engagement pipeline between prospective customers and your business. Relevant and targeted content is what hooks them in and engagement is the grease that puts the gears into motion and ideally helps achieve business goals. “Social media … Continue reading Time’s Nathan Lump, Marketing Prof’s Ann Handley on How Good Content Drives Engagement
