Tag: social media trends

As regular readers of my blog will know, (hey mum 👏) every year Prohibition prepares a social media trends webinar where my business partner Will Ockenden and I go through the latest social media trends. We try to predict emerging trends and things to be aware of using our own data and our experiences with clients and of course from our social media strategy training workshops. I have to be honest, sometimes we get them bang on and sometimes we hilariously don’t but we always try to make sure we add some value to the people that turn up to ... Read more

I have been busy over the last month or so presenting a number of webinars on social media trends with my business partner Will. Every year I travel the country and present my predictions and I have been doing this for the last 7 or 8 years. However, this year it is all virtual but that means, I can now give my predictions to you “On Demand”. Social Media Trends Predictions The majority of marketers in the UK are now using social media marketing in a clever strategic capacity, whether it’s stand-out conversation campaigns, brand ambassador recruitment, customer competitions or ... Read more

I was recently running an advanced social media training session with a number of senior female academics and when the subject of LinkedIn was brought up. I started discussing how it was useful to raise your profile in the higher education sector and I was met by a series of hesitant glances. LinkedIn being used like Tinder and Bumble I wondered what was wrong and the academics told me they don’t use LinkedIn for one main reason; because men approach them on it all of the time. Now, I may not be up to date with the latest online dating ... Read more

When discussing your business’ marketing strategy, training your team on the benefits and tactics of social media marketing and their proper usage isn’t a bad idea. Although you may not initially think it, social media as it stands today is one of the largest hubs for business marketing and houses a plethora of fresh business opportunities. Regardless of whether you’re the brains behind an innovative SME or the founder of a large corporate conglomerate,  continually educating yourself and your team on the proper usage of social is critical to securing your position as a forward-thinking brand.   11 reasons for ... Read more

I can’t believe we are already into February but here we are. In the last 30 days, we have been touring the UK giving a number of seminars on the latest emerging Social Media Trends. We have pulled the data for these trends from a huge variety of sources to be able to provide you with a very comprehensive overview. Social Media Seminars However, these seminars are rather lengthy as we tend to look at each social media trend in a lot more detail. However, I know social media marketers are busy making content – so busy in fact, that ... Read more

Last week, I finally concluded my latest thought series of UK seminars in Birmingham after starting way back in January. These seminars were helping to share my thoughts and educate a few marketers and content creators along the way about the latest trends I have noticed emerging. Although they are hugely tiring to write from scratch, I do like to get out and meet people and stay on top of the latest developments in social, and in the last twelve months there have been some fascinating bits and pieces going on. So rather than coming out and speaking to everyone ... Read more

I have been pretty busy during these last few months speaking at various social media conferences and events discussing a lot of different topics but the big one has been the latest social trends. Now although I am OLD (don’t laugh) I don’t proclaim to be an oracle and know everything that is going to happen in business and technology but I do feel I have a fairly solid understanding of social media marketing as it is today in 2018. My agency Prohibition has had its biggest year of growth in the last twelve months and a lot of our ... Read more