By Jim Symcox on Nov 14, 2011 in business decline, Business Growth, Business Health, Social Media | 0 Comments
Blogs have been around for quite a while now and we do still seem to have a variety of newspapers and magazines available. That said there’s no doubt that the print media dominance has been severely eroded. I’ve talked before about how the number of readers of print media has been dropping for several years [...]
By Jim Symcox on Sep 22, 2010 in Manchester Bloggers, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | 0 Comments
Captain America is being filmed in Manchester (UK) as I write. How do I know? Firstly, I live in Manchester and I’ve seen notices tied to lampposts telling me where I can’t park as filming is happening. Secondly I’m getting an amazing number of tweets about Captain America from many of the people who use [...]
By Jim Symcox on Apr 1, 2010 in Digital Marketing, Facebook, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Strategy | 0 Comments
I’ve just heard from a friend that there is to be no funding for social media training. Interesting… Internet marketing has radically changed the way we all do business. Social media is one component of that. It’s the newest and it too has the ability to change the way you do business. And it’s not [...]
By Jim Symcox on Feb 15, 2010 in Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Strategy, Twitter, Twitter Tools | 0 Comments
Social Media Marketing or social marketing as it’s becoming better known has actually been around for quite a few years now. It’s not just Twitter or LinkedIn. Social marketing also covers blogging, which only really started in December 1997 and started to take off much later around 2003/2004. Similarly Twitter started in March 2006 and [...]
By Jim Symcox on Dec 15, 2009 in Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter | 0 Comments
Social media strikes fear into company executives hearts. It raises many fearful questions, some of which may be in your head right now… Questions like: Q1 How can we prevent employees spilling the beans about what happens inside our company? Q2 What about if our customers leave negative comments? Q3 Isn’t it a gift to [...]