Digital Interest
6 LinkedIn Profile Pictures to Avoid!
As recruiters we’ve seen our fair share of LinkedIn profiles (probably even yours). And it’s no secret that some choices of profile picture are wildly inappropriate looking like they’ve been taken str…
Does the World need another Social Platform?
Everyday we use different social channels to digitally engage with peers and share content. Whether it’s using platforms like Twitter for news, Instagram to share photos or Whatsapp as a general subst…
Mashable on the Twitter Video Revolution
Twitter are making changes in the way they do things. It’s the video revolution – and about time. Twitter bought Vine in 2012 for what now seems a bargain at $30m before launching it in early 2013. It…
Kevin Hart Rides Along With Social Media
Social media has everybody talking. Since Facebook became a tool for business, along with Twitter and LinkedIn, social media marketing has driven conversation and marketing innovation across the marke…
What's the ROI of Your Mother?
It's no secret that the digital age is constantly evolving. We can do everything from order our weekly shopping on mobile to watch the latest blockbuster movies on our tablets. These huge developments…
How Will Facebook's 'Dislike' Button Affect Brands?
"I wish Facebook had a dislike button." This is something that's been bouncing around planet Facebook for years, but does anybody actually mean it? For those of you that do, you're in luck as Facebook…
The Digital Age In Football
I'm sure none of us have ever tried streaming a whole live football game, but if we were to try I can imagine the speed, quality and overall experience not being very good, even in this digital age. G…
Content Marketing Masterclass at LinkedIn London
Having started as an apprentice at Network Marketing over a year ago I knew there were going to be great opportunities ahead for me in the digital and social media scene. The latest one was a trip dow…
Top 10 Apps for Marketing Directors.
The Stone Age saw cavemen hunt and gather food. In the ice age, animals now extinct walked the continents in a desperate bid for survival. Now, in the digital age… well we’d go to any length to save u…
Persicope for Business Or Is It The Next Foursquare?
With so many bandwagons to jump on in the social media space (and we’ve been on most of them at Network Marketing towers), the latest to take our fancy is Periscope. It’s amazing how few people have h…
Atom By Atom: Camp Digital 2015
Thursday 24th April 2015 marked Sigma’s Camp Digital event. It was a fantastic insight into the minds of Digitalists and UX designers alike from huge companies including Laterooms.com, Twitter, IBM, A…
The General Election: The Battle for Social Media
General Elections happen in the UK on the first Thursday of May every five years. In 2010, you may have had a few people post their political thoughts on Facebook or your letterbox jam packed with doz…
The Rise of the Selfie
The last few years have seen some major headlines. The Germans lifted the 2014 Brazilian World Cup, The Europeans retained the Ryder Cup, and Network Marketing recruited their Graduate intake. However…
3 Viral Hits That Changed Lives
It’s 2014. We’re in control of what we do with our devices whether it be to access emails, update our Facebook profiles or check the football scores. However, something we aren’t in control of is waki…
Dumb Ways to Die - How to Engage With Kids on Train Safety
The video has been deleted from my iphone by my 12 year old son so I can't share it, but imagine the scene... He's sat on the toilet, ipad on his lap. signing along to "Dumb ways to die, so many dumb…
Blog It Like Beckham...
David Beckham has made headlines this week following his announcement that he is retiring from football! Social media, blogs, press, TV – the story was everywhere you looked. As a fan of The Beckhams…
Top 10 Most Annoying Social Media Updates
This morning I noticed this piece on the @Telegraph Twitter feed and it made me "LOL"… I think we’ll all have un-followed, de-friended or deleted people who have committed the following social media c…
Building stronger business relationships in a digital world
Don’t hide behind the digital façade Are you too busy in your role to develop your business relationships effectively? The technological revolution was meant to make things easier for us at work, free…
Don’t let your social media profiles stop you getting the job
Whether you like it or not, if you have ever used the internet you have likely left a digital footprint. A footprint isn’t necessarily a bad thing, having a positive footprint can help you stand out f…
Netflix, the new TV model?
I’m hooked on yet another shiny American TV drama, except this time it isn’t available on any TV channels. It’s House of Cards and can only be viewed on the streaming service Netflix. For the uninitia…
Social media, is it worth the hype?
The recent Jonathan MacDonald blog about the fallacy of social media started a big debate here at Network Marketing Towers. We are enthusiastic users of social media, but wondered; are we getting carr…
Shop Till You Drop. It's Black Friday
Apparently it’s Black Friday today. It’s an American phenomenon and is the day after Thanksgiving when the traditional Christmas shopping sprees begin. Retailers open early and give discounts to tempt…
OpeNMonthly Launches at Network Marketing Towers
We're really pleased, after many sleepless nights, to be able to launch our latest summary of stuff that we're interested in, wanted to share or just thought could be useful.
Be careful what you tweet - #Waitrosereasons
Here at Network Marketing Towers we know Twitter is a great way to communicate with candidates, clients and generally people in the outside world. We do our best to demonstrate that the company is app…
Using Twitter as a Marketing Tool for Yorkshire Businesses
Over the last few years social media has become something of a ‘buzz word’ amongst the marketing community. We’ve seen the rise in the demand from clients requesting social media marketing skills to c…
You shall go to the conference: what I learnt from ionSearch
As soon as I heard about ionSearch – the search marketing and social media conference in Leeds – I wanted to go. The line up of speakers was fantastic and, as a copywriter, I knew the conference would…
Network Marketing In The Community PLUS QR Code
Well, never ones to be left behind in the world of technology, the team at Network Marketing Towers have put their substantial marketing weight behind the fantastic work for Barkston in Bloom - AND we…
Pinterest - Social Media Phenomenon or Distraction?
In the last 7 or 8 years, social networking has crept deeper and deeper into our subconscious and has, to a large extent, changed the way we communicate. A whole new aspect of marketing has grown into…
Tiger Bread - A Social Media Success or Genius PR Campaign?
Sainsbury's and the mysterious case of the Tiger Bread- this story doesn't seem to have left the press since it first emerged that a young customer, Lily Robinson, had written to the leading supermark…
To QR or not to QR - that is the question
We have been playing around with QR Codes here at Network Marketing Towers - wondering if there's a suitable application for it in our business or if it's just technology for technologies sake.
We're loving the Aldi TV Advert - Another Gem from McCanns
So, we've been hearing about this 'slideshare' thingy and have seen a few produced by other people. With a few decent presentations under our belts we thought we'd get stuck in and start to use it. T…
Our First SlideShare - Setting Up in Business
So, we've been hearing about this 'slideshare' thingy and have seen a few produced by other people. With a few decent presentations under our belts we thought we'd get stuck in and start to use it. T…
Social Media Assumptions Cost You Time
We spotted this fun cartoon that depicts the complications associated with all of the different ways of communicating with people on-line. Do we favour direct email or do candidates and clients pref…
Recruiters Using Social Media to Screen Candidates
One of our eagle eyed recruiters, Teejay Jones, spotted this Mashable infographic on linked in the other day and it’s caused some debate through the office so it’s definitely worth a look.
We all love our social media – but be careful!
Warning! Wordy blog post with no nice video to break it up...but a good article! All of our guys here at Network Marketing Towers spend their fair share of time on the usual social media channels Face…
Network Natter - It's Good to Talk
So, we've been thinking about this whole 'Social-Media' thingy here at Network Marketing Towers and have been discussing how we can chat to candidates (and clients if you like - the more the merrier)…
Reviewing the Value of Job Aggregators
Here at Network Marketing Towers we're always looking for new ways of getting the message out there about the roles we're recruiting. It's really the main way we build credibility as a marketing recr…
What Google+ Is Really About
Here at Network Marketing Towers we like our new technological developments although sometimes struggle to keep up with the leviathan that is Google. The very latest from the amazing marketing team t…
The web is what you make of it...
I'm sure we've all seen the Dear Hollie ad by Google - no? Well, in their latest TV advert we see a father set up a google mail account to email his new born daughter as she grows up. He emails her m…
Shopping From Mobile More Popular Than PC - Really??
We're not getting this headline at Network Marketing Towers. Inmobi is suggesting that shopping via mobile is more popular than shopping via a PC. Take a look at the attached article. In a scientifi…
Google +1 - It's coming
So - the next wave of google's domination is on the way with the implementation of Google +1. Apparently it's not a challenge to Facebook Likes and shouldn't be seen as such - yeah right! If google a…
The Danger of Twitter?
With the launch of the Six Nations Championship tonight it is interesting to see the spotlight being shone away from team tactics and on to the sportsmens' use of social media. In today's press it wa…
Groupon and Living Social - the beginning of the end?
Those who know me will be aware that I’m not one to shy away from a bargain but it is only recently that I have been introduced to the world of “group buying”. In the last few days I’ve spotted articl…
Facebook or Faceache. Are people beginning to lose the love?
Whilst watching the film “The Social Network” on the weekend I was left pondering the impact of Facebook and how it really has become an intrinsic and vital part of our daily lives. Its success has be…
The Power of LinkedIn in Recruitment
Over the past few years we've heard many comments about LinkedIn being used as a tool for recruiters, the majority being negative. There is an apparent resistance to potential candidates being contact…
"Google is interested in social. Facebook and Apple interested in Ads"
Spotted this really interesting article on the BBC website about Le Web conference in Paris. I hadn't heard of it before but am absolutely sure that, in this wonderful digital region of Yorkshire we m…
Should Her Majesty really be on Facebook??
It seems like the social media bug is hitting every company and every person (that can get on to the internet) these days. Long gone are the days when Facebook was just for the younger generation - my…
Work direct with Google or through an agency for PPC?
We have been in discussions with an agency recently about running a PPC campaign, initially for 6 months to drive traffic, primarily great marketing candidates, to our new site. It’s been something we…
Ever Tried Not Blogging or Tweeting for a Month?
...well I haven't. In fact - I am somewhat of a novice to blogging (I do beaver away on my own blog jonathanhirst.wordpress.com though) and tweeting, but have seen a massive value in it. Just being…
