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How to track and discover marketing and other trends online? This includes 5 tools & 5 reports on trends (2022) - (09-04-2022)

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There are many tools that you can use to find the current marketing and other trends within various industries using free tools available online.  (1) Google trends First of all, there is the Google Trends ( https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=GB ) which is a tool where you can search for a search term for example: "marketing trends" and the search can be based on a single country or even worldwide in this case "worldwide". Then you can narrow the search down further to a time range for example "past 5 years". Then you can search categories for example "business & industrial". Then you can choose what to search by for example "web search".  There will be the "interest over time" which is in " Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 ...

MarTech for Marketing Tools

 MarTech (Marketing Technology) is an area of marketing that showcases the technologies that help with marketing and usually more digital marketing although these tools also blend the traditional marketing to the more digital orientated marketing.  Chiefmartec.com have developed 2 infographics that summarise and include each of the MarTech technologies in a number of areas.  In terms of the April 2018 they developed around these areas: Advertising & Promotion: (1) Mobile marketing (2) Display & Programmatic advertising (3) Search & Social Advertising (4) Native / Content Advertising  (5) Video Advertising   (6) PR (Press Relations) (7) Print Content & Enterprise: (8) Mobile Apps (9) Interactive Content  (10) Video Marketing  (11) Email Marketing  (12) Content Marketing  (13) Optimization, Personalization & Testing  (14) DAM (Digital asset management) & MRM (Marketing Resource Management) (15) SEO (Search Engi...

Facebook and other services owned by Facebook down

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  Today (4th October 2021) Facebook and other services owned by Facebook including WhatsApp as well as Messenger are currently down.  This was Tweeted by Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO): " *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible." His Tweet is available to read here: https://bit.ly/3uF1YK4 Also, if, you would like to follow him for future updates from his Twitter account: https://bit.ly/2ZWDKzP I would recommend checking each apps official Twitter accounts for Tweets: This is one from Facebook's App Twitter:    This is the source for the above Tweet: https://bit.ly/2ZN7EpY Here is a link to the Facebook App official Twitter:  https://bit.ly/3laI6eN The official WhatsApp account tweeted:  "We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with Whats...

Types of media that you can use to support your marketing efforts 2021.

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There are many different types of media that can be used to support your marketing efforts from the traditional media platforms to the digital platforms that can be utilized by either individuals or even companies of any size.    There are the following types of media:   1.      Owned,  2.      Earned,  3.      Paid, 4.      Shared & 5.      Rented.   Although, let us start with  traditional media  channels or types:   Traditional media   can include adverts or articles within newspapers, magazines, trade journals as well as other traditional printed media forms or there are are also television (TV) adverts or even radio adverts or even a sponsorship agreement between the radio station or even the TV station and your company where there can be product placement within these TV or radio shows and the ads that app...