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Does your brand need social media anyway?
- May, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media, Stories
- advertising, branding, digital, marketing, social media
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What would your business be like if you didn’t use social media? Big brands such as Tesla, Playboy, Mozilla and Sonos recently left Facebook amid the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Theoretically,…
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Gibson has filed for bankruptcy. Is it a dark day for the music industry or the beginning of much-need course-correction? The iconic guitar brand Gibson, maker of the Les Paul,…
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3 (very) basic tips to make your social media videos better
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media, Photography
- content, media, social media, video
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Make your social media videos exponentially better with these quick fixes. Getting the basics of video right isn’t as complicated as it used to be, so there should be no…
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George Orwell and the importance of clear communication
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media
- communication, english, george orwell, language, media, poltiics
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Clear language and why it pays to say what you mean. “In certain kinds of writing…it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”…
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A second set of eyes: Even the stars of business and social media need good copy
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media
- communication, copy, journalism, social media
- 0 Comments
Typos, misspellings, poor wording, badly phrased ideas: all of them are coming from the social accounts of brands, business personalities and other people who want your money. Have you ever…
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6 times high-profile people lost sponsors because of social media posts
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media, Stories
- athletes, cricket, homophobia, social media, sponsors, sponsorship, sports, sports people
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Smart sportspeople can get the upper hand with sponsors — but some will always misuse social media and face the consequences. The entire country seems to be only just recovering…
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Walking the walk: How (not) to be taken seriously on social media
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media, Stories
- digital, fitness, social media, strategy, web
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How are you coming across on social media? In my previous career as a magazine editor, I would often come across a strange phenomenon. Contacting athletes for a feature or…
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Plagiarism on social media: Why content theft is bad for your business
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media
- content, fitness industry, plagiarism, social media
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Newsflash: you shouldn’t steal stuff In the traditional media paradigm, content creators — though we used to be called writers, journalists, designers, photographers etc. — knew that plagiarism was a…
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One simple social media concept many people get wrong
- April, 2018
- Daniel Hedger
- Media, Stories
- business, fitness industry, internet, marketing, social media, web
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These days, many people have a social media business page that is a separate entity from their regular, personal profile. Unfortunately, all too many of them don’t understand the distinction between the two — and nowhere is this more prevalent than in the fitness industry.