Public Relations

Small is beautiful

Small is beautiful

Good things often come in small dosages. Firms in the know and in need of a fresh PR boost are often getting just what they want from micro-influencers, who generally work for less money, tend to be more passionate about what they do, and are eager to build...

Email is king – but what accounts for its reign?

Email is king – but what accounts for its reign?

Despite the rise of social media platforms and their multitude of messaging applications, email remains the go-to communications tool for exchanging messages in the business world. This simple, efficient, inexpensive way of sending and receiving text and visuals was...

At home on the road, now more than ever

At home on the road, now more than ever

It’s never been easier to take a trip and still feel the comforts of home. According to a recent study, the market for accommodation worldwide is worth over $630 billion, and is estimated to take a flying leap to nearly $900 before 2026. Supporting conditions for the...

The problem with PR crises today

The problem with PR crises today

Fake news can be just as damaging as legitimately bad news. Crises are crises – even when they don’t really seem like they should be. A new consumer behaviour study states that over half of its respondents reported that they visit social media sites at least six times...

The Russians are buying online

The Russians are buying online

While Russia’s economic growth only sputtered along in the first half of this year, registering less than 1%, e-commerce in the country shows no signs of stopping. During the same six-month period, online shopping surged by a rate of 26 per cent. Despite sanctions...

The art and craft of email -Part II

The art and craft of email -Part II

As the first half of this two-part blog described, the vast majority of emails go unread. The importance of making your email relevant and readable is thus not to be underestimated. One key tip is – as this should be well understood by now in the era of texting – is...

The art and craft of email –Part I

The art and craft of email –Part I

An average of 280 billion emails are sent every day. That’s quite a lot. And, on balance, quite wasteful: nearly 80 per cent of them are never opened or dispatched to the junk box on sight with the help of algorithms. While social media and other communications...

Female and Muslim, travelling and spending

Female and Muslim, travelling and spending

Muslim women – around 63 million, to be precise – spent more than $80 billion while travelling in 2018, according to a study recently released by MasterCard and CrescentRating. The news on this demographic should be a brightly shining indicator to digital marketers of...

The spectacular potential of quantum marketing

The spectacular potential of quantum marketing

The future is now (and then, and both and neither of these things, perhaps). The much-anticipated quantum computer has arrived, thanks to – and this should be no surprise really – Google. While traditional computing is based on zeroes and ones, quantum computing turns...