World Wealth Report 2014: Can Social Media Help Close the Trust Gap? The 2013 CFA Institute & Edelman Investor Trust Study found that trust in the investment profession is fragile — and that a lot needs to be done to improve trust, especially among individual investors.
Enter the 2014 World Wealth Report from Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management, which suggests social media as a solution. 5 Reasons Social Media Matters for Financial Advisors - Fast Focus: Social Media - Jerry - Finect. Open Equity: Buffer's Equity Formula And Full Individual Breakdown. Ever since we established the Buffer values that are at the heart of our company culture, we’ve been continuously on the lookout for new ways to live those values every day – particularly our important value of defaulting to transparency.
Last year, Buffer shared all of our salaries and the formulas behind them. We regularly share what we’re reading, how we’re working to improve ourselves – even the mistakes we make. Without this ongoing commitment, our value of transparency is little more than a word written on a piece of paper. Rich snippets - Videos: Facebook Share and RDFa - Webmaster Tools Help. Google recommends using schema.org to mark up your videos. schema.org is a new on-page markup that uses a vocabulary that Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!
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The leaked document gives us an important glimpse behind the scenes of a storied media brand that is struggling to respond to the disruption of its market, its readership and its entire business model by a combination of changing consumer habits, rapid technological change and more innovative competitors. Joshua Benton of the Neiman Media Lab calls the leaked New York Times digital strategy document “one of the most remarkable documents I’ve seen in my years running the Lab.”
His overview of the leaked document has served as the basis of this post. See The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age. My Time on the Sell Side - A Wealth of Common Sense. “Wall street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.” – Warren Buffett My first experience in the investment industry was during my senior year of college.
I spent an entire semester working for a group of sell side analysts. This is the job that entails following a group of companies in a specific industry and issuing buy, sell and hold signals on each stock (or now it’s market outperform, strong buy, market perform – they change all the time). Along with these recommendations, analysts set price targets and put out earnings estimates and revenue projections. My Time on the Sell Side - A Wealth of Common Sense. Chancellor launches consultation on measures to help small business lending - News stories. Speaking at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) 40th anniversary conference, the Chancellor announced how proposals published today (Friday 28 March) aim to make it easier for SMEs to find alternative loan providers.
The consultation asks whether the government should legislate to require lenders to release information on SMEs they reject for finance, so that they can be identified and approached by alternate credit providers. The ultimate aim is for new online platforms to be created so that lenders can find SMEs that are looking for a loan, but have been rejected first time around. Over half of SMEs seeking finance for the first time get rejected, and research suggests most of them do not try again. Big banks account for the vast majority of main SME banking relationships (over 80%), but innovative new forms of credit, such as peer-to-peer lending and crowd-funding platforms, are being created in the UK all the time.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne said; LinkedIn Turn Off Activity Feed. Think Strategic - Act Decisively - Web and Social Media — Advice Leaders Forum. The Business Insights survey Report for 2014 highlighted that most professional advisers are ready to create a strategic plan and to join the digital world.
But where do you start? In the slidsheare presentation below titled 'Web and Social Media, Think Strategic - Act Decisively' I highlight the following: Current trends in web and social media useWhat is the ROI for social media platforms‘Great’ communication more profitable than ‘Good’ Strategic, tactical and opportunistic marketingYour web and social media plan Be the expert – The leader in your field of expertiseTips for your websiteTips for social media messagingTools you can use for efficiency. The 7 Secrets to Shareable Content. The effectiveness of social media comes from its ability to tap into the most intrinsic desire among us -- the desire to share.
People share for different reasons. Here are the specific triggers of human psyche that motivates one to do so, and how you can utilize them. 32 Amazing YouTube Statistics (March 2014) This YouTube stat post is an offshoot of our original Google post.
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The Retail Consumer Report stated in 2011 that of those consumers who received a reply in response to their negative review 33% turned around and posted a positive review and 34% deleted their original negative review. It is my belief that you can turn the more vocal negative consumers into loyal customers – it is all in how you handle it.
How a cost driven solution becomes a differentiator for wealth managers… … About the important role of digitisation in the segmentation strategy for wealth managers and their clients… In the past I have written about the importance of the right segmentation strategy for wealth management firms and private banks. The segmentation subject sometimes has a negative undertone. Reading quite some angry comments on blogs that are discussing the impact of digitisation on levels of service from the negative side or what they call ‘reduced services’. 20 Tools To Stop The Social Media Timesuck. The longer I work in social media, the more I realize that the biggest danger for a social media marketer isn’t proving ROI, anticipating Facebook algorithm changes or even dealing with Twitter trolls — it’s the dreaded Social Media Timesuck.
You’re probably familiar with it. It’s what happens when you go to Facebook just to post a link to that latest blog entry but somehow end up staying for an extra 30 minutes and opening 7 new tabs. Or you fall down a Pinterest wormhole, can’t stop checking in on a great Google+ discussion, or randomly decide to update your LinkedIn profile — all while you’re supposed to be doing something else. If you’re doing it right, social media does take time — but that time is better spent building real relationships with people who are important to you and creating great new content than mindlessly flitting through Twitter for the 12th time. What’s more, even social media marketers deserve to have a life beyond social media. 3 Scientific Studies With Real Insight Into Social Media. The HFS Marketing Welcome Pack. Nference 2014: Tech experts share their top tips on social media. Nielsen report finds that word-of-mouth is the most trusted source – again » Nielsen have just published their latest report on Global trust in advertising and brand messages.
It finds, as did the previous report published in 2007, that word-of-mouth is the most trusted source of commercial information. Word-of-mouth communication, sometimes called ‘Earned Advertising’ is a full 15 percentage points above its nearest rival. The accompanying press release states: Social media case studies from General Mills, Mattel, Nissan, and 19 more. Ex-HBOS chief James Crosby stripped of knighthood. 11 June 2013Last updated at 14:50 ET James Crosby was criticised by the Banking Standards Commission Former HBOS chief executive James Crosby has been formally stripped of his knighthood, the UK Cabinet Office has said. Following a highly critical report by the Banking Standards Commission in April, Sir James asked for his knighthood to be removed.
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