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Content Marketing Framework – How Business Schools Should Think About Marketing in 2014

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Graham Richmond in News 2 Comments

The importance of a Content Marketing Program to build community around your brand. by Alex Brown . The above is a framework (click to enlarge) that helps illustrate the importance of a Content Marketing Strategy, given the explosion of the “Free Marketing” space. Free Marketing is defined as content that is about a brand, but […]

View Post Content marketing, Digital marketing, facebook, Graduate Management Admission Council, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, YouTube

Why Content Marketing Fails, Instagram Engagement, and ROI (Return on Influence) – Web Marketing Wednesdays

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Graham Richmond in Web Marketing Wednesdays 2 Comments

Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! While we’ve devoted the last couple of weeks to internal pieces about the mobile first generation, we return to our usual format for this week and feature lots of great content from across the web.  Read […]

View Post facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Web Marketing Wednesdays

Mobile First : There Is Much More to Come

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Graham Richmond in News No Comments

Today’s twenty-somethings have migrated to the smartphone as their screen of choice. The next generation will know of no other alternative. By Alex Brown and Graham Richmond The term “mobile first” has now been used in two broad contexts, to describe social networks that emerged first as mobile-apps, as well as to describe the millennial […]

View Post Alex Brown, Business school, Graham Richmond, MBA, Media consumption, Mobile device, Social network

Gated Communities: Reaching ‘Mobile First’ MBA Applicants

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Graham Richmond in News 2 Comments

Apps Are a Vital Tool for Reaching Today’s Prospective MBA Applicants -by Graham Richmond and Alex Brown Two weeks ago, we wrote about the continuing rise of smartphone usage among young people and what it means to business school admissions offices and the higher education industry in general.  We suggested that the ‘Millennial’ generation might […]

View Post Business school, LinkedIn, MBA, Twitter, US News & World Report, WhatsApp, Yelp

Brand Storytelling, the Role of Word Choice in Content Sharing, the Future of Google Adwords – Web Marketing Wednesdays

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Graham Richmond in Web Marketing Wednesdays 1 Comment

Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW explores brand storytelling, the role of word choice in content sharing, the future of Google AdWords and some interesting news on social logins.  As always, the goal of this column is […]

View Post AdWords, facebook, Google, Google AdWords, Michael Brito, Neil Patel, TechCrunch, Twitter

The Ever-changing Facebook News Feed, Content Marketing TLC, Revisiting Your School Brand: Web Marketing Wednesdays

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Graham Richmond in Web Marketing Wednesdays 1 Comment

Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW tackles Facebook’s ever-changing news feed, highlights a great piece on content marketing, explains where online ads can fit into your content marketing efforts, and helps you to ‘clean out your brand […]

View Post Ann Handley, facebook, Forbes, John Hall, Marketing

Are Leading Business Schools Unresponsive?

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Graham Richmond in News 3 Comments

Admissions offices at the top 25 US MBA programs are falling short with ‘Mobile First’ generation. -By Graham Richmond and Alex Brown We’ve all seen the deluge of statistics about smartphones and the use of mobile devices in general.  For instance, we know that the smartphone recently surpassed the television as the ‘first screen’ (e.g. […]

View Post IPad, IPhone, Mobile device, Responsive web design, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Tumblr Tips, Enhancing Your Social Media Productivity and the Demise of the Mobile Web: Web Marketing Wednesdays

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Graham Richmond in Web Marketing Wednesdays 1 Comment

Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW offers helpful Tumblr tips, provides tools for enhancing your social media productivity, delves further into the demise of the mobile web and showcases an in-house article about the future of GMAC.  […]

View Post Business school, GMAC, Graduate Management Admission Council, Social media, Tumblr

Thoughts on GMAC CEO Sangeet Chowfla’s Wall Street Journal Interview

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Graham Richmond in News 1 Comment

The Wall Street Journal recently published a Q&A with Sangeet Chowfla, the new CEO of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC).  Chowfla, who took the helm as CEO of GMAC back in January was questioned about his vision for the future of the organization and shared his thoughts on matters ranging from minority performance on […]

View Post Business education, GMAC, GMAT, Graduate Management Admission Council, Graduate Management Admission Test, MBA

Twitter Photo Collage, Mobile Phone Usage Trends, Gmail Users – Web Marketing Wednesdays

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Graham Richmond in Web Marketing Wednesdays 2 Comments

Welcome back to Web Marketing Wednesdays (WMW), Southwark Consulting’s weekly roundup of news and notes from the digital marketing world! This week’s edition of WMW tackles trends in mobile phone usage, explores the new Twitter Photo Collage feature and offers thoughts on what a massive Gmail user base means for Google+.  As always, the goal of […]

View Post Business school, CNET, Google, IPhone, Twitter, WMW
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