Tag Archives: marketing

Carrington Malin

A particularly delicious cake

A new survey highlights that there is enthusiasm for behavioural targeting and concern over privacy issues in almost equal measure. Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

10 social media myths exposed

To our delight, more and more Middle East brands are looking seriously at using social media in their communications and making efforts to plan, structure and invest in strategic activities. It’s no secret that Spot On PR is a big … Continue reading

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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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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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Carrington Malin

5 reasons Spot On PR uses Twitter

@SMEXbeirut asked recently if we’d written an article on why Spot On PR uses Twitter and what we get out of it, so now is probably as good a time as any. Those that have been following our social media … Continue reading

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Carrington Malin

Losing the battle for control

In the age of social media, where people have an overwhelming choice of content, every organisation needs to be in the content business – and that means carefully considering the content consumption habits and needs of its stakeholders. Continue reading

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