Social Performance Measurement For Agencies
World Cup 2018 And Ambush Social Media Marketing
Sahail Ashraf posted on 7 August 2018
Social media and sports are made for each other. Whenever a big event happens in the world of sport, it’s easy for a brand to tie-in. This year saw perhaps the biggest sports event of all hitting the world’s stage. The World Cup was held in Russia in 2018, and the amount of hype and […]
Unlikely Brands That Are Smashing Social Media
Sahail Ashraf posted on 31 July 2018
We strongly believe that any brand can have a useful and fun presence on social media. Brands are often so confident that they can do this that they use in-house staff. And a lot of that confidence is derived from knowing that their business works well on social media. You’ve seen this happen. Coca Cola […]
How Influencers Are Switching Up The Travel Industry
Sahail Ashraf posted on 17 July 2018
Influencers are everywhere. A couple of years ago the whole thing was very different, with just a few big names building out their empires on Youtube. Now, we have some wealthy Influencers literally changing the shape of industries. A good Influencer partnership can bring in revenue, and boost a brand’s position in a market. So […]
How will Facebook privacy changes affect your paid campaigns?
Sahail Ashraf posted on 10 July 2018
Earlier this year, Facebook had been involved in something very worrying. When Cambridge Analytica blew up, the social media giant suddenly looked like it had zero integrity. It has integrity, of course, but it’s reputation was damaged. Mark Zuckerberg had to do something about this. In addition to taking some tough questions at a recent […]
The Importance of Social Media Performance Tracking
Sahail Ashraf posted on 3 July 2018
Here at Locowise we love having our finger on the pulse of the latest social media analytics. Tracking the trends via our benchmarking tools and allowing digital marketing agencies to automate their reporting process is a top priority for us. Yet, people who are not that familiar with the industry, including business owners, sometimes aren’t […]
Social Media Marketing Courses You Need To Look Into
Sahail Ashraf posted on 26 June 2018
Social media marketing is a discipline, which means that it can be taught. Finding good courses that give you what you need can be difficult. Don’t worry, because we’ve put together a list of some of the best courses you can find online for this crazy business we call social media marketing. Boot Camp Digital […]
Create A World-Beating Social Media Marketing Strategy Plan
Sahail Ashraf posted on 19 June 2018
Whether you’re working for a brand on an agency basis, or running your own ship, if you don’t plan your social media marketing you will be wasting the two most important components to a business: time and money. You can count the number of brands that have instant huge audiences on social on one hand. […]
6 Examples Of Incredible Social Media Marketing Campaigns
Sahail Ashraf posted on 13 June 2018
As we are half way through 2018 it seems a little early to be thinking of ‘best of’ lists. The last year was pretty good, as it happens, so we thought we’d have a little crawl through it, and see which campaigns really inspired us. The first one on the list? A rather unique and […]
Should You Shut Down Your Brand’s Social Media Presence?
Sahail Ashraf posted on 5 June 2018
Wetherspoons, the huge pub chain, made the news recently because the brand decided to close all it’s social media accounts (that ran into the hundreds) in one day. Wetherspoons are now no longer on social media. It was a complete shutdown. And this kind of got us thinking. Wetherspoons stated that it felt social media […]
What We’ve Learnt From Wetherspoons’ Exit From Social Media
Sahail Ashraf posted on 30 May 2018
Something rather interesting happened with JD Wetherspoon on the 16th April. The huge pub chain suddenly decided to close all of its social media accounts. If this was about a few accounts that were used now and then, like some brands do, this would not be a big deal. However, Wetherspoon had a lot of […]
Social Media Metrics That Matter In 2018
Sahail Ashraf posted on 23 May 2018
If you’re looking after a social media presence for a client, you want to be sure you’re getting it right. And whatever you might think about the latest shiny object in social media, metrics are what it’s all about. If you can track and report on important numbers and data, then you have your finger […]
Impact of Social Media Tools on the DM Industry
Sahail Ashraf posted on 7 May 2018
Long time marketing experts can often see the genuine correlation between the digital industry and established medium. In the famous words of Conrad Gessner “Word of mouth matters.” And for the most part, this is completely true. And today, with social media this is truer than ever. In fact, in our post on the best […]
The Agency Guide To Twitter’s New Guidelines On Posting And Scheduling
Sahail Ashraf posted on 4 May 2018
As most people in social media know, there is a lot of spam about. One of the biggest platforms that is most vulnerable to spam is Twitter. Ever since the platform first got off the ground, it has had problems with people using it as a place to ‘game’ the system. At its worst, Twitter […]
10 Lessons From The Global Digital Trends In 2018 Report
Sahail Ashraf posted on 30 April 2018
The Digital Trends report for 2018 has thrown up a wealth of information and useful data about digital habits worldwide. We’re proud to say that Locowise took part in the project, and helped to gather the huge amount of information and insight the report provides. It’s a big report, so we thought we’d dig into […]
7 Incredible Examples Of Brand Storytelling On Social Media
Sahail Ashraf posted on 21 April 2018
Check out our more recent post on brand storytelling here. ———————————————— If brands want to get the very best out of social media at some point they will have to embrace the art of storytelling. This is a key aspect of a brand’s survival on platforms as diverse as Pinterest and Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. […]
Instagram Growth And Engagement For March 2018
Sahail Ashraf posted on 20 April 2018
Here we are again with our look at the performance of Instagram as a branding tool, as well as our news highlights for March. First up, we’ll crunch the numbers… We’ve introduced a new grade card feature to measure the health of growth and engagement for Instagram profiles. We use our own judgement for three […]
March Has Not Been A Great Month For Facebook
Sahail Ashraf posted on 18 April 2018
March for Facebook wasn’t exactly a walk in the park. The trust that Facebook has built its future on seemed to take a huge dive when the Cambridge Analytica thing broke. And because it was such a huge part of what happened to the company in March, we’re going to focus on that first. But […]
How To Crush Market Research On Social Media
Sahail Ashraf posted on 16 April 2018
You may be surprised at how useful social media can be when you are attempting to research a market. The amount of strategy and planning that can result from a rigorous attempt at market research pays off in the form of more clients, a stress-free environment because you’re comfortable with who you’re creating work for […]
10 Non-Visual Brands That Shouldn’t Be Crushing Instagram (But Are)
Sahail Ashraf posted on 13 April 2018
Unless you’ve been living under a particularly heavy rock for the last few years, you’ll know that Instagram is one of the best places to market a brand. It has everything you would need. A large audience, a great interface and that kind of ‘hip’ feel that pushes it up above most other platforms. Oh, […]
Locowise presents: The Drilldown Episode 5
Team Locowise posted on 6 April 2018
In this month’s episode of The Drilldown, we discuss brand new Snapchat analytics, the latest updates from Facebook, and Youtube’s upgraded platform for content creators. Watch on for the latest news in social media marketing. Watch Episode 4 of The Drilldown here Watch Episode 3 of The Drilldown here Watch Episodes 1 and 2 of […]