Why your audiences are so important
People tell you to write for your audience; locate your audience; conduct keyword research for your target audience; create quality content to please your audience. They don’t tell you that you have more than one audience!
Five ways to improve the retail customer journey online and in store
The Digital High Street 2020 Report calculates that more than £150bn of retail sales are now influenced by digital.
How to optimize your contact page for better conversions
Providing your future buyers with easy and varied ways to get in touch with you is the most obvious way to improve your conversion rate.
15 data visualisation tools to help you present ideas effectively
The number of digital skills you need in order to be a functional and useful member of your organisation are increasing at a rate you might be struggling to keep up with.
A handy guide to content marketing for mobile
A responsive website is not a mobile strategy.
Seasonal pages and SEO: who’s ready for Euro 2016?
Seasonal events which can deliver relatively short-term traffic spikes, need to be planned for from an SEO perspective.
Meeker report: what you should know about the rise of visual content
Mary Meeker’s annual report indicates the steady increase of visual content and it leads to many interesting insights, both for users and brands.
The science behind shareable content
In a presentation at CMA’s Digital Breakfast, StoryScience founder Kohlben Vodden gave some fascinating insights into the science of what makes content … read more
Warning: Don’t fall victim to content strategy’s biggest mistake
If you think content strategy and content marketing are independent of each other, your content doesn’t stand a chance. Here is why: … read more
12 reasons for brands to use GIFs in content marketing
GIFs are nothing new, but their use is more popular than ever. Here’s why brands should include them as part of their content marketing … read more
Is content marketing really working? Advice and insight from #ClickZChat
We talk a lot about content. How to make it, what makes it work, how to measure it’s effects, if there’s too … read more
State of video advertising report: what are the most tolerable ad formats?
As video content increases, it’s time for brands to understand their consumers, in order to deliver the most relevant ads to them.
Why companies create content – part three: to answer customer questions
Here we’ll explore how companies can best construct content to respond to the frequent (and not so frequent) queries that come from their audience.
Shift Q&A: “Content is not a conceit or a vanity project, it makes people money”
Content marketing has been one of the industry’s buzz phrases for the last few years, but as the medium rapidly evolves and consumers’ expectations change, are businesses still getting it right?
Nine common content marketing mistakes and how to fix them
Content marketing is becoming vital to business, with its success affecting many positions that complement each other. How do you ensure though that your strategy is effective?
BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?
Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains … read more
Google doubles down on native app experiences with Gboard, Chirp and Translate
Google puts high value in mobile user experience. The truthfulness of that statement can be tracked back as far Google’s first .mobi website 10 years ago, or when it launched the first iteration of its Android operating system in 2008.
How to write meta title tags for SEO (with good and bad examples)
What is a title tag? How do you write one? Why are title tags important? Do they actually help with search engine optimisation?
SEO 101: eight simple ways to optimise your blog posts for search
You don’t have to be an SEO expert to optimise your content in just a few steps and improve your page’s ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Here’s a new content marketing strategy documentation map
I’m currently going through the process of establishing a content strategy from scratch and thought I’d share what I’m doing, which I’ve summarised in this visualisation.