Online Marketing Trends

Cheat sheet for Tweaking your images for optimizing  for search and social media marketing . Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin , Pinterest, Youtube, Whatsapp and Google plus

The technology and telecom providers categories comprised 44% of total brand value  in the BrandZ™ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2015 ranking. 10 years ago  the tech companies accounted for 36% of the total brand value

This years Millward brown brand report has some surprises and a few expected brand rankings 2015 number one global brand has been Apple.The Brand Value of the Top 10 brands almost tripled, to $1.1 trillion, one-third of the total value of the Global Top 100.Whereas the top 100 brand value now stands at $3.3 trillion, a 14% increase on 2014 and a 126% growth over 2006 .Apple, with its relentless focus on the consumer experience, and the ability to wow its consumers demonstrated this yet again with the iPhone 6, returns to the top spot with a 67 percent increase in brand value.



The biggest riser is Facebook with an increase in value of 99% The  fastest growing brand this yeat ( new entry) is the online retailer Alibaba which debuted in the retail ranking at $66.4 billion, helping to grow the retail category ranking by 24% and overtaking both Amazon and Walmart This years Fastest rising brand report shows that “Five of the 10 Top Riser brands come from technology or telecom providers categories. Other fastest growing brands were Domino’s Pizza which won on brand strength and communication.Amazon grew faster with its consistent and  awesome customer care. Other fastest growing brands were  Skoll ,Verizon, Google and Zara were

A new study by Forrester Research found that just 65 percent of U.S. online users between the ages of 12 and 17 consider Facebook to be cool—ahead of Tumblr (62 percent), Pinterest (58 percent) and Google+ (55 percent), but lagging behind YouTube (80 percent), Snapchat (79 percent), Instagram (78 percent), Vine (72 percent), Twitter (69 percent) and WhatsApp (67 percent).

However, Forrester found that more than 60 percent of respondents use Facebook the most of all social networks, with more than one-third saying they are on it “all the time.”

FACEBOOK, YUTUBE AND  GOOGLE  are among the biggest 3 mobile app brands. According to comscore , some of the largest digital media brands; specifically, Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay. These six brands account for 9 of the top 10 most used apps, 16 of the top 25, and 24 of the top 50.

G2 Crowd Grid for Social Media Mgmt Software


3 pointers on what you need to know before deciding on the social media marketing automation tool

Some social media monitoring tools and marketing automation systems also offer social media management features. Alongside some marketing automation tools too provide social ability in terms of social media marketing…including to work with Twitter and Facebook as include and schedule tweets  and facebook posts
How to choose a social media automation tool

1) Number of users
2)features and functionalities
3)Integration with your over digital marketing analytics

However it has be to primarily based on your needs. If Social media marketing is a core and heart of your marketing you can consider some of the options here .The Market share Perception map shows the leaders, the laggards and the contenders .

Among the top 3 are  1)social studio  2)Tweetdeck  3)hootsuite and 4)sprout

The high performers include 1)Sendible 2)Agorapulse 3)Buffer  4)cision 54)Growsocial.

H1B VISA Average Median Salary :Which Technology major pays the highest

Among the 5 major tech giants Facebook pays the highest salary to the H1B visa foreign workers.With $130,000 median annual salary, the worlds biggest social network ranks 1st, followed by Apple who pays $123,000 and ranks second as the second biggest paymaster to H1V visa holders.

Google pays  a median salary of $120,000 annually. Microsoft and Amazon takes the 4th and 5th rank the bottom among the top 5 Tech Companies with 118,000 and 109,000 respectively

Amazon ranks right at the bottom of the pile having increased their pay to H1B visa holders by mere 6% since 2013