Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Top Ten Weekly Vacancies

SLA Sales Consultants is a dynamic specialist sales recruitment organization with a combined industry experience spanning more than a decade.  Our aim is to provide a fresh and forward-thinking approach to both client and candidate solutions.

Please see below for a list of our top ten vacancies this week:

Media Sales Executive – Digital – London
Marketing Director – Digital Marketing – London
Business Development Manager – Digital – London
Advertising Manager – Contract Publishing – Central London
Creative Solutions Advertising Manager – Contract Publishing – Central London
Sponsorship Sales Executive – Conference & Events (Life Sciences) – City of London
Senior Sponsorship Sales - Oil & Gas - London
Business Development Executives – Travel - London
Delegate Sales - Life Science - London
Business Development Executive – Telecommunications - London

For more information you can contact us in one of the following ways:

Email: info@sla-sales.com

Phone: 0844 693 3022

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Top Ten Weekly Vacancies

SLA Sales Consultants is a dynamic specialist sales recruitment organization with a combined industry experience spanning more than a decade.  Our aim is to provide a fresh and forward-thinking approach to both client and candidate solutions.

Please see below for a list of our top ten vacancies this week:

Exhibition Sales Executive – Energy – Central London
Sponsorship Advertising Sales – Technical – London
Advertising Manager - Publishing – London
Head of Digital – Digital Media - London
Digital Account Manager – London
Corporate Sales Executive – Print Document Solutions - London
Marketing Director – Digital Marketing - London
Account Manager – Home - London
Graduate Delegate Sales – Technology - London
Senior Sales Executive – Energy - London

For more information you can contact us in one of the following ways:
Email: info@sla-sales.com

Phone: 0844 693 3022

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Mail Online Trial Affiliate Marketing

Image sourced from- http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/jul/19/mail-online-affiliate-marketing-publishers
Can affiliate marketing provide a new source of revenue for newspaper publishers?
The last 5 years has had a strain on the publishing of newspapers, forcing them to consider different commercial strategies. Although print advertising rates are declining, the original hard back print is still their main source of revenue.
Print publishing has become a struggle as social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have encouraged citizens to become their own journalists, posting personal versions of the news on their social sites. The need to look to a newspaper for the latest news and stories is declining. Why go out and buy a newspaper, when you can log online and get the information for free anytime and anywhere? How to monetise online publishing has become print publishing’s latest conquest. The biggest struggle with this is the fact that the publishers who ask for subscribers to pay for their information know that the same information can be found somewhere else on the web for free, and so do consumers.
To try and combat this, the Mail Online has confirmed they will be becoming an affiliate marketing partner. This means that along with the articles they post, links to third party websites will be attached. As an example, if a story was to be written about a celebrity with an image of an outfit, a link to the website where these shoes/dress/trouser can be purchased will also be provided with this. If it results in a sale, then the Mail Online receives the commission.
Although affiliate marketing has been a successful venture for a large number of companies for years, the Mail Online is thought to be the first national newspaper publisher to use this to monetise their content. Publishers have avoided this approach in the past as questionable editorial integrity has been viewed as a worry. “Can they keep the lines between commercial gain and editorial independence completely clear?”- http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/jul/19/mail-online-affiliate-marketing-publishers
I personally think this is a good move for the Mail Online as online shopping itself has become very popular. As long as the Mail Online continues to write content of value to their consumers then this approach can only be a success. The commercial links will simply be an add-on of the content, nothing more.
This will not completely fix the challenges print publishing face, however it is a step in the right direction.

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Piccadilly Offers New Outdoor Digital Media Advertising for Brands

Piccadilly Lights display have showcased brands such as Max Factor, Schweppes and Volkswagen. Going strong for over 100 years to date.
Later this year, Piccadilly Circus are rumored likely to be offering their outdoor advertising display, known as the Piccadilly Circus Lights to a single advertiser due to a revamp of the site known as the Piccadilly Lite.
The new LED screen is aiming to be positioned above Barclays and Boots premises in hope to take advantage of more pedestrian traffic due to the closure of Glasshouse Street to traffic.

MT2 Limited, who have been managing and working on the last five installations on this site, are expecting the screen to be operational by December and will start work on this in August. MT2 Limited have stated that one advertiser would be preferred for the site however it has not be decided whether one or more advertisers will be used.

Part of this new installation will involve the removal of the strip screen currently known as Piccadilly Lite and the balcony with which it sits on. This site is the only site that could be utilized by any outdoor campaigns. Up until around 18 months ago Clear Channel Outdoor held the contract for bookings and selling of short term leases to ad campaigns on the Piccadilly Lite site.

After the renewal of its contract, McDonalds is also updating its current screen with a second-generation LED screen. The work on this replacement screen has already started and aims to be functional early October. These updates will follow the instalments that Coca Cola and Samsung made on the build up to the Olympics during 2011 and 2012.

Since February 2011 all the Piccadilly signs have been LED. The last static sign to be removed was Sanyo’s neon sign. This recent improvement is thought to be the last planned for years as the new screen is aimed to complete the display.

 

Using Content Curation to Benefit Your Brand

To put it plainly, curation is the gathering, organizing and online presentation of content in order to gain a specific response. It has been suggested that the need to curate is part of the human nature. To collect and arrange things in a visually pleasing manner, always looking for something new to refresh and complete our collections.


With the World heading very much technological and digitally social, curation no longer involves keeping collections to ourselves. Social networking sites allow us to post, display and collect content from individuals with the same interests and knowledge on specific topics from around the web. 
“Just as individuals naturally curate, so do publishers. As Joe Pulizzi of the Content Marketing Institute explains: "Content curation has been around since the dawn of the publishing industry. The job of the editor was to take the best information from around their industry and present that information in a manner that makes sense to readers." ” - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/2013/jul/16/content-marketing

The initial idea of content curation is to allow brands to provide an area which consumers can return to time and time again for information and consistent updates on a specific topic. By creating this environment, brands can gain what is known as an impartial authority by providing more than their own views and content. This is beneficial as it lowers any mistrust from consumers who may suspect they are being sold to unwillingly. Your company can appear more trustworthy when it posts from third parties as well as your own. 

Publishing has become sufficiently utilized by brands, the benefits of content curation should be investigated more. The articles being posted online average at around 2 million per day. An example of successful curation is Pepsi Pulse. It curates a mixture of currently recognized pop cultures, original content (such as celebrity competitions and deals) with a mixture of entertainment news.

 iQ — a technology-focussed magazine created by IT company Intel, features a mix of original reporting by Intel employees alongside curated content from the likes of Mashable. By adopting this content blend of differing voices of employees and non-employees, Intel can foster and maintain its image as a top technology provider, without seeming contrived or biased.” - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media-network/2013/jul/16/content-marketing

Content curation also eliminates the financial burdens that come with content market programs. An added bonus is the increase of reducing the risk in the curation process from content marketing platforms. They filtered the information to determine which is appropriate or inappropriate to publish. This improves the simplicity of curation and dissolves the assumption that curation would be too time consuming.

Overall content curation can be hugely beneficial to brands who realize how important being an online authoritative source of information, for an audience to regularly visit, can be. In a world full of fast moving success and failures content curation is a great way to help prolong the life and reputation of a brand.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Top Ten Weekly Vacancies

SLA Sales Consultants is a dynamic specialist sales recruitment organization with a combined industry experience spanning more than a decade.  Our aim is to provide a fresh and forward-thinking approach to both client and candidate solutions.

Please see below for a list of our top ten vacancies this week:

Commercial Sales Executive – Print Document Solutions – Hertford
Broadcasting Sales Executive – Print/Digital – London
Business Development Executive – Print – London/Hertford
Sponsorship Sales - Oil&Gas - London
Delegate Sales – Energy - London
Business Development Manager – Legal – London
Digital Publisher – Hospitality - London
Advertising Manager – Publishing – London
International Sales Executive – Digital Media – City of London
Media Sales Executive – Online and Digital Media – London

For more information you can contact us in one of the following ways:
Email: info@sla-sales.com

Phone: 0844 693 3022

Friday, 5 July 2013

Marketing blunders – What Was Your Biggest Mistake?

Success is a learning curve. Every company will take risks that will either make or break their business. As the old saying goes, you’ll never know if you never try. Even the largest, most well established companies have created a number of marketing fails, some of these businesses are still going strong others caved in and are no longer existent.

                    
                   Image sourced - http://www.techwench.com/things-your-small-business-must-outsource/

 
A great example of this is the brand Coca Cola. Being constantly successful against any other brand in their field, they never really needed to make any changes……until Pepsi. Pepsi, for a short while, was beating Coca Cola in sales and popularity with regards to taste. In response to this Coke changed their recipe and adapted their flavour to keep up with the sweetness of their rival Pepsi. This did not end well as Coke’s customers stopped receiving what had made them loyal to their brand of cola in the first place, therefore posing the risk of losing their current fan base all together. Thankfully for this company, they realised their mistake and changed the recipe back just 79 days later, regaining their reputation and customers along with it.
Unfortunately, not all fails can be turned around. The Osborne Computer Company made a mistake that cost them their entire business. April 3rd 1981, when the business was just a start-up, The Osborne Computer Company launched the Osborne 1, the first ever portable computer. With the current thoughts of this being impossible, Osborne’s launch was a huge success.
The first shipping was in June ‘81. Their revenues grew so quickly and successfully that by February they had sold $100 million worth of computers. Soon after, rivals such as Apple and Compaq began producing their own, more sophisticated and advanced versions of the product. In a battle to stay on top, Osborne announced a future launch of an improved model expecting to hit the market in the next few months.
This resulted in customers no longer buying the product Osborne 1, but holding off and waiting for this ‘new and improved’ version. The backlash of this was the fact that no money was coming in now. How can a new model be created when there is nothing to fund it? The Company became almost instantly insolvent.
Although this resulted badly for the company, a strong lesson has been learned and the announcement of products before they are ready to be launched is now referred to as ‘The Osborne Effect’. Companies such as Apple, as an example, has taken this on board and are very private when it comes to products they are working on, as are many other companies.
Marketing and success is a game of trial and error. The more drastic the risk, the more drastic the consequence. The bigger changes are harder to reverse and have a stronger impact on the overall result.
What mistakes have you made? What advice could you give to start-up companies or any companies in fact?

Top Ten Weekly Vacancies

SLA Sales Consultants is a dynamic specialist sales recruitment organization with a combined industry experience spanning more than a decade.  Our aim is to provide a fresh and forward-thinking approach to both client and candidate solutions.

Please see below for a list of our top ten vacancies this week:

Advertising Manager – Publishing – London
Media Sales Executive – Online and Digital Media – London
International Sales Executive – Digital Media – City of London
Digital Publisher – Hospitality - London
Account Manager – Print – Hertford
Broadcasting Sales Executive – Advertising – London
Direct Business Development Manager – Financial Software – London
Delegate Sales Executive – London - Life Science
Sponsorship Sales Executive – London - Life Science
Sponsorship Sales Manager – London - Energy

For more information you can contact us in one of the following ways:
Email: info@sla-sales.com

Phone: 0844 693 3022

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

How safe is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is effectively a service which allows users to save their data online as oppose to a hard drive. For instance, companies who have employees are required to buy the software or software licensing for each of them to store information and data of their work. Cloud computing allows one application to be installed for all employees to access and save their work individually rather than separate software for each computer.
Without realising, you may already be using a type of Cloud computing. If you have any email accounts such as a Hotmail or Gmail, then you are already involved. The software and storage of these accounts are not saved to your computer but to the services ‘computer cloud’. These accounts allow you to store your emails and information online by simply logging in to your account with the server. The advantage of this is having the ability to retrieve your data at anytime, anywhere as long as you have access to the internet.
Even though this is an excellent advantage, if data can be accessed anywhere, how safe and secure is it? Cyber clouds can become targets to cyber-attacks and hackers. With your data and information being ‘out there’ on the web it is easier to access then it would be on your own hard drive.
“Researcher Yingian Zhang at the University of North Carolina and colleagues from Wisconsin and security firm RSA have already shown how this can provide a route to attacking and hacking a cloud. “Because we’re sharing the resources there’s a possibility some information will leak,” Mr Zhang told the BBC” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21754034
Stephen Schmidt, security head for Amazon Web Services said the attack mounted by Mr Zhang and colleagues only worked in the lab. Those kind of attacks tend to be more theoretical than practical,” he said, adding that the many checks and balances on a live cloud service would stymie such an attack. ” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21754034
A number of cloud services are usually located in the US. This means they are not necessarily subject to the European Data Protection Act and may not provide the same privacy and data protection. It has been said that this virtual space is full of spies. This can be damaging to companies and businesses as it can expose the confidential information they contain within the cloud.
For this reason, Sweden recently banned civil servants from using Google apps such as Gmail and Google docs as they are not believed to be sufficiently safe.” - http://sciencenordic.com/cloud-computing-how-safe-your-data
Cloud computing, the same as many changes and new techniques, has a number of advantages and potential failures. What SLA wants to know is what do you think?