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Social media is no longer a fresh-faced rookie on the marketing scene – a fun, easy and effective way to get your name out there – it’s now a primary business engine. We rely on it to generate leads, push sales, provide customer service and analyze complex data.

Globe Content Studio, as a division of a major news outlet that reaches 20 million Canadians a month, has worked with a broad array of advertisers across every industry. We’ve learned how they think about, execute and extract value from social platforms, which means we’ve seen a lot of what works …and what doesn’t.

Many brands both large or small, in fintech or flower arranging, online or IRL, tend to make the same social media missteps. Which isn’t surprising, especially in 2021. But here’s the biggest one – and how you can avoid it.

As the world navigates yet another new phase of partial reopenings and potential lockdowns, we’re at a crossroads. It’s natural that marketers are trying to meet the next moment. But here’s what our latest research says: if your marketing message focuses only on the changes in front of us, you’re missing an important part of the picture.

During the pandemic–as people stayed inside–they went inward. They adopted new routines and rituals. They redefined their values and reprioritized their time. In other words: people did the work. They really like who they became and they want to keep that up.

Last year millions of new users in Canada turned to Pinterest to navigate their “new normal” and to stay engaged and inspired during the lockdowns. These are the five different personas that emerged during the pandemic:

There’s no question that brands and influencers have to make their relationships clear to consumers. The Canadian Code of Advertising Standards requires disclosure of material connection, and the Competition Bureau enforces laws about misleading marketing practices. What many marketers are unsure of, however, is how and what to disclose. To help marketers put disclosure into […]

Influencer marketing is seeing meteoric growth: 63% of marketers increased their influencer marketing budget from 2016 to 2017; and 40% will increase it again this year, according to Harvard Business Review (2018). However, many marketers still struggle to get their strategies right. At a recent ACA webinar, Cathy Fernandes, CEO of Jones Media, shared advice […]

As marketers, we are constantly faced with new developments in technology and shifts in customer behaviour which require us to learn new things and change the way in which we do our jobs. I’ve written previously about why chatbots need to be part of your marketing strategy and when chatbots are at their best. Recently, […]

It’s much harder to find a nonfiction book in a library than a fiction book. Why? Because the author is the main search element in fiction, books are usually arranged alphabetically by author last name, sometimes by title. This makes finding what you’re looking for relatively simple if you know some basic information. Sometimes, fiction […]