Category Archives: Online marketing

Carrington Malin

Are you engaging the right fans?

As a communications and marketing agency that helps run a number of social media programs, we spend quite a lot of time looking at Middle East social media marketing campaigns from around the region. It’s still early days, but the … Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Does online marketing scare you?

Things are looking up for the online marketing community. Recent surveys and media reports widely credit the region’s online advertising spend to be growing fast and becoming increasingly important to more and more people. Although last year was a difficult … Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Introducing social media in the Arab world

The April issue of O’Dwyer’s PR Magazine has just come out in the USA and it features a report I wrote on social media in the Middle East and North Africa. It’s a very top-level view of social media and … Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

A tweet in time saves nine

Erroneous, misguided or otherwise badly put together marketing communications are sent out by organisations every day. Most go largely uncommented on, however some resonate for all the wrong reasons. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Twitter & Customer Service Survey

Spot On PR’s 2010 customer service and Twitter survey found that 95% of Middle East & North Africa Twitter users surveyed welcomed brand engagement via Twitter. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

#DubaiToday twalk radio

Perhaps it was the rainy weather, perhaps it was the fact that four well known local Twitter users appeared live on the show, or perhaps it was just the conversations, but Dubai Eye 103.8FM’s Dubai Today show really got the … Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

Tweets like grains of wheat

Everyone has done the old ‘one grain of wheat on the first square, two grains on the second and so on doubling with each square’ trick. The same mathematics potentially applies to the humble retweet, of course. Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

We’re no longer wowed…

A sea-change in consumer attitudes to technology follows a series of changes in the way in which people inform themselves of new things. The information flow, which used to take place across magazine pages or at exhibitions, now takes place online 24/7. Continue reading

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Alexander McNabb

The coolest agency in the world

Social Media PlansThe coolest agency in the world can’t execute brilliant social media campaigns if the client doesn’t want to invest in the idea. Even the most customer centric companies often need to re-think their processes in order to be truly customer-centric via social media. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

The Year Of Mobile?

Technology pundits are heralding “The Year Of The Mobile” yet again, however this year they may actually be right. Continue reading

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