Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

According to Gartner’s 2014 CMO Spend Survey, social marketing is 11% of the 2014 digital marketing budget and is expected to grow to 13% in 2015. Marketers are under great pressure to use digital marketing, including social marketing, to drive business results. Capturing part of the paid advertising budget — at 12.6% of the budget, growing at 15% — allocation of paid media funds toward social advertising could help increase social marketing impact. 

So how can you make good use of that budget in your social media strategy, and what Twitter marketing tools should you be using to enhance it? Here are some ways that you can do just that and ensure that you end 2015 on a high!...

Social analytics service Topsy announced that it now offers the full archive of tweets on Twitter, meaning that anyone can search through the entire library of messages ever sent on the microblogging service.

You could, for example, look up your own first tweets — probably for the sheer delight of embarrassing yourself — by heading to Topsy.com, searching for ‘from:@yourusername,’ hitting search and then sorting by oldest first.You can, of course, do that with Twitter’s archives, but Topsy lets you do it for any account....