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At the excellent Edge 'Marketing within the Recruitment Sector' event yesterday I met the marketing manager of recruitment firm...

I've spent most of today at On the Edge Digital's Marketing within the recruitment sector event - featuring all sorts of fascinating...

If you dropped down on one knee on a first date, people, including your date, would be understandably worried. 

The article below shows...

Social media practice divides neatly two philosophical views of the internet. 

Public relations practitioners view it as a network of...

I recently wrote a post about vanity metrics, and the danger of attaching too much importance to shares on sites such as Twitter.

Well, I...

Games can be excellent content and offer real opportunities to B2B marketers. 

A monthly quiz about developments in your industry would...

Online content marketing is something that is not limited to words. We all know the phrase, ‘a pictures worth a thousand words’, so why...

At Passle, we've found that gamifying the content creation process is a fantastic way to get people motivated. You'd honestly be...

This is quite a fascinating debate around the topic of trademarking hashtags (particularly for Twitter, but I imagine this extends to...

For marketers, ad blocking technology presents an obstacle.  For PR people, it may create an opening. We're good at earning engagement...

Below is a webinar, in which I suggest five ways to recycle (or, to be fancy, upcycle) your content so that it gets a better chance of...

Sales people love targeted marketing events. Unsurprisingly, this is because they are an effective medium for building relationships and...

Getting started with blogging can be a daunting task. Here are a couple of tools that can help you keep your writing slick and on-track:

1. A...

Love this post about the LinkedIn research that highlighted employee shares receive on average 2x higher click-through rates than company...

Very few lawyers - and other professionals for that - aspire to write in plain English.  And all pretence flies out of the window when it...

It's 2016 and some companies - especially in the B2B space - are still focusing on putting their product first.

With the power of social...

If you can handle the intensity the #AskGaryVee show and DailyVee are worth tuning into for various topics across the marketing spectrum. 

I was very lucky to be joined on our webinar last week by Ed Major one of the founders of Orca social.  Ed specialises in social selling...

Relevancy is key. 

The first step is knowing your target audience. In order to write relevant, valuable, and engaging content, you must...

Smart Insights has written a post about the benefits of introducing a gamification element to your content marketing strategy. Their...

It’s harder than ever to differentiate yourself as a law firm – so when someone comes along and does something genuinely different, you...

Babelquest were the first users to integrate Passle with Hubspot. In the article below, Eric Murphy details why this combination is so...

Technology can make delegate experiences' so much better when it all goes to plan.

We have many excellent experiences with innovative...

I was recently introduced to the world of favicons whilst developing a website. Although subconsciously we use them on a daily basis,...

Some great tips from Ben Hollom in the link below on how to make your content go from 'meh'  to 'amazing'. It's particularly important to...

This week I had the pleasure of being joined by Paolo Cuomo, COO Charles Taylor Managing Agency (Insurance). 

The focus of this webinar...

In the 1980s this phrase was used widely to justify buying from an incumbent supplier of pretty much anything. It suggested that by...

It’s rare to hear the words ‘party political broadcast’ and ‘gone viral’ in the same sentence, yet the Green Party have changed all that...

What are the greatest challenges facing B2B marketing today?

Keeping abreast of all the trends in social media, SEO and paid marketing is...

This article in Brand Quarterly gets right to the heart of content marketing strategy.  It touches on the 'create once, public...

Vanity metrics are the empty calories of the marketing world, and Twitter is more guilty than most other social networks in encouraging...

Video bloggers, or vloggers, have mastered audience engagement in a way that most marketers can only dream of.  

But what, if any, lessons...

Exporting your LinkedIn connections is a good idea. It's a very quick and easy process that results in a nice, tidy spreadsheet with all...

Having recently visited one of our successful real estate clients and provided feedback on the gamification of their content strategy we...

Most serious businesses in the world have a blog or at least try and blog.  They understand the benefits of doing that and know they should 

Research from Deloitte suggests that the virtual reality (VR) market has reached a tipping point, and beyond the realms of entertainment...

I promise you will enjoy it!

When choosing a Unique Selling Point or Brand Position it is easy to think "What makes my product or service different?" and then take...

Copyblogger have put together a handy glossary of content marketing terms. From A/B Testing to Widgets, you never need to wonder what...

It is really easy to get confused by the vast amount of data available to us and to stop thinking about the human at the other end of an...