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The Innovation Visual team recently got the chance to attend a great event taking place at the British Library in London, Creative+Opportunity. Organised by Hill+Knowlton Strategies, the event was a brilliant day of networking, talks and discussions with some of the top business voices across the industries concerning the involvement of technology in entertainment, innovation, communication, ingenuity and society at large. The event also explored how to embrace the power of change and opportunity.

This year World Mental Health Day lands on 10th October 2019. Organisations such as The Mental Health Foundation, Time to Change and Mind campaign tirelessly to raise awareness of mental health issues and to support individuals and families. Our blog explores how social media and technology can have a profound effect on mental health. 

In a pre-GDPR world having a healthy number of contacts in your marketing database was the norm. However, when GDPR came along many businesses went into a full-blown panic. The worry was that GDPR was going to remove their legal basis to contact their existing and potential customers.

There’s a high chance that your business may already be engaged in the basics of social selling especially if you have a LinkedIn account, Twitter account and or actively engage in forums like Quora and Reddit as these are ideal platforms to ‘social sell’.

It doesn’t matter if your goal is to acquire leads, increase sales or conversions, content plays a crucial role in moving people through the buyers’ journey. With a staggering 4.39 billion internet users worldwide creating content is a great way to reach an audience and where they are. From videos to images to blogs, content helps your prospective customers or leads learn about you as a brand, gather information about your products and services and as a business you can use content to position yourself as the expert in that field.

Personas are a vital part of content marketing. Defining who your customers are helps you to understand how to talk to them, their pain points or challenges, where to reach them and eventually how to get them to perform a specific action on your website. Combined with a good understanding of their buying journey, your personas can help you write relevant, useful content that will push them further down the funnel.