Jordan ConApril 2, 2015 In the pre-social and pre-mobile world, attribution was pretty simple. Web analytics could tell you that a visit from search was from search, a visit from a link on nytimes.com was a referral from the New York Times website, etc. But today, when you look at your web analytics, an oversized … Continue reading Dark Social Attribution in the Spotlight
Dave BrockMarch 24, 2015 I recently received a prospecting email on LinkedIn entitled, “A Shot In The Dark.” The individual opened with the usual, “I was looking at your profile, you appear to be the right person…..” The rest of the email isn’t really relevant, I think I was the “right” person because I’m CEO … Continue reading “A Shot In The Dark”
Joao RomaoMarch 4, 2015 Ok. It’s not news. Social sharing buttons have been widely recognized as one of the most important tools any website should have and normally come out as one of the easiest outreach marketing techniques to increase a website’s traffic. When they first appeared, their goal was simple – to allow your … Continue reading Dark Social Sharing Isn’t Light Years Away
Lucinda WatrousFebruary 7, 2015 The landscape of good Facebook advertising is changing once again. Right now, businesses using newsfeed style ads can capitalize on a new trend of “dark posts.” A dark post is using a newsfeed style ad that doesn’t actually get published to your page’s feed. With newsfeed style ads generating 49x the … Continue reading How Small Businesses Can Use Facebook Dark Posts
We live in a social world. If Facebook’s billions of users aren’t evidence enough of that, or the swarms of articles on social media on this site aren’t enough to convince you of that, consider the fact that one of the first things the Chinese government did when protests started erupting across Hong Kong was … Continue reading 6 ways to avoid the dark side of social media [Infographic]
