Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Did you know that 25% of Americans only use a mobile device to access the internet? Or that 47% of marketers have generated leads from Facebook, 35% from LinkedIn and 34% from Twitter? If those statistics are of interest to you, then you won’t want to miss today’s post which includes 36 other amazing facts just like those.Ready to dive in? Check these out...

As digital communication continues to explode more organizations are recognizing its importance within the marketing mix. In order to develop strategy and allocate resources business leaders need to understand the effectiveness of their existing digital initiatives. A great way to do this is to conduct a digital audit – a study of your brand’s digital presence (on its own and in relation to your competitor set) across six key areas: Reach, Architecture, Content, Conversion, Integration and Measurement.

Before launching the digital audit it’s important to establish basic criteria with respect to rating status, structure and performance. To help guide next steps set up a simple decision filter that will aid in prioritizing your findings. One simple way to do this is to assign a color coding systems as follows...