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I Saw You Again
There you were standing between the flowers with questions in your eyes.
The piercing above your upper lip was like a shining full stop blazing on your face.
The hair swept to one side was done while you thought deeper about something.
The ring on your hand was chosen with care for a reason.
Your bow-shaped lips want to open up to utter the betrayal you feel.
The dainty wavy hat covers your hair softly to convey a message.
The kohl-lined eyes are filled with determination to get to the truth.
The hand that grasps the hair seeks the same flowers it hasn’t received for long.
The black-stringed necklace that hangs from the neck has an untold story.
The eyebrows that never merged have been plucked clean of doubt.
The happy plants around you seek answers about your presence.
The eyes carry on asking questions that should have been asked long back.
I saw you today after so many days.
I wanted to see you again for so long.
Your presence in front of me does make me weak in the knees.
But your eyes fill me with questions for which I have no answers.
Why did you come again today?
You are like that stone that is thrown in the still waters of my heart.
The waves come pushing towards me breaking on the rocks of my illogical mind.
Won’t you say something to let me know that I deserve to hear your voice?
I won’t understand if you stand there saying not a word.
I dare not come closer should you choose to step further away.
That you have come is the coming of Spring for me.
But now I should walk myself back out of the garden.
My mind plays tricks on me to make me suffer.
You were never there for me but as a beautiful memory never forgotten.
Good bye and good tidings to you.
Wish I can someday be as true as you.
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GET FEEDBACK FROM YOUR CLIENTS PLEASE 📋
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Are you a professional digital marketer running a digital marketing agency, or working in a digital marketing agency? 💻
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If you are, then I would request you to actively start collecting honest feedback from your current customers/clients. Here’s why: 🔬
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✴️THEY MAY MOVE: Yes, this is entirely possible. If you assume that your clients are 100% happy with your digital marketing service, then you may be surprised. Get honest feedback from them and take action on it. 🕺
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✴️ KNOW YOUR WEAKNESS: You need to know what you are not doing right for your clients. Clients are the only ones who can tell you about it. You can’t guess. Take that feedback and become self-aware, then improve. 👥
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✴️ KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS: You should know your digital marketing strengths. Clients also should testify to it with their honest feedback. Again, don’t assume or guess anything. The word of your client carries more weight than your confidence. 🗣️
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✴️ GET REFERENCES: Since you are running a digital marketing business or working in one, you already know this golden marketing rule: Get References. Cajole your happy clients in a feedback to give you new business references. 💕
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✴️ SERVE CLIENTS WELL: You know there is something called CAC - Customer Acquisition Cost. You have to spend more dollars acquiring a new customer/client, than keeping a current customer/client happy. Get that feedback to know that you are serving them well. 🎤
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You may be super-confident of your digital marketing services. But never be super-confident of your clients. 🏋️
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They may decide to leave you and you may not even know about it...till later. 🎳
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That honest client feedback keeps you and your client on the same page. ⛳️
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HOW GOOGLE ANALYTICS HELPS YOUR BUSINESS 🔎
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You use Google daily. Google Analytics (GA) is a valuable tool from Google to know important details about your website visitors. 📌
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Question is: Are you effectively using Google Analytics (GA) for your business❓
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Your 1st simple step is to connect GA to your business website. 🔌
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Here, if you say that you don’t have even a business website yet….well, I pray that your business succeeds offline. Online you will remain a failure. You deserve that. 👎
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS OPENS YOUR EYES 👁️
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Google Analytics is an eye-opener when it comes to understanding who your prospective customer/consumer is. That guy who decides to click on your website URL and come to your website to check it out, is your prospective consumer. 🖱️
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Here are some things that GA tells you when you connect it to your website: 👈
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✔️ AUDIENCE OVERVIEW: What is the user flow on your website - Number of Users, New Users, Returning Users, Sessions, Number of Sessions per User, Pageviews, Pages / Session, Avg. Session Duration, Bounce Rate 📠
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✔️ DEMOGRAPHICS: GA tells which language, country and city your website visitors are from. 📣
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✔️ SYSTEM + MOBILE: GA tells what browser, operating system and service providers your website visitors are using. 📱
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✔️ INTERESTS: GA tells Gender, Interest Category and even Age Group of your website visitors. 👫
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There so many different types of Google Analytics Reports you can generate. You can then use those reports to optimise the experience of your website visitors with relevant content and establish trust. 📋
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What you need to do now is login to your website-linked GA and check out all those goodies that are there in the form of valuable data. 🗃️
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THREE MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF YOUR BUSINESS WEBSITE 🖥️
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If you have a business website, then you are already way ahead of your competitors. They may still be thinking about merits of having a website, while you own a working website. 👏
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Now, let me refresh how your website is a valuable business tool.
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1⃣ INFORM YOUR AUDIENCE 🔽
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The number one objective of your website is to keep your target customer informed. When you have relevant website content, then each visitor gets good information about your brand and company and how it remains useful to him. 🍎
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This helps the customer to remember you when they are ready to buy. 🙋
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2⃣ ENGAGE WITH YOUR AUDIENCE 🔽
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The 2nd objective of your website is to get your customer to engage with you and your business. If you can offer a relevant newsletter, a downloadable PowerPoint, case study, a video, a report, or an infographic, she may agree to give you her email to get that content. 📧
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Have touch points where your website visitor can happily engage with your business. 💱
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3⃣ DRIVE REVENUE 🔽
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The 3rd major objective of your business website is to drive revenue for your business. And revenue comes when that random website visitor decides to come regularly to your website. She begins to trust your business website. 🍍
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When that website visitor decides to give you her email, she decides to give you a chance. She would like to know whether you are really worth what you say on your website. Only when convinced does she decide to give you her hard-earned money for your product or service. 💰
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THREE CATEGORIES OF DIGITAL MARKETERS 👶👷🤴
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Let me introduce you today to three broad categories of digital marketers.
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▶️Professional digital marketer
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▶️Trainee digital marketer
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▶️Could-be digital marketer
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I am introducing you to these three digital marketers so that you recognise the broad variety of people in the digital marketing field. 🌻
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1⃣ PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL MARKETER 🦅
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He has digital marketing experience. She has digital knowledge. Both are expert professional digital marketers. 🍁
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He may be running his own digital marketing agency, or working in one. She may be working as an independent consultant. 📯
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2⃣ TRAINEE DIGITAL MARKETER 🐦
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He has decided to take up digital marketing as a career. He pays money to study and train for his career. She studies to gain knowledge through online or offline courses. 📚
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They know that after their course they would join a digital marketing agency to gain important work experience.💡
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They could also move into taking up a digital marketing responsibility in the company they are already working in. ✏️
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3⃣ COULD-BE DIGITAL MARKETER 🐤
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These are college students, office employees or even work at home or retired moms and dads. They have been coming across digital marketing news and articles online and offline. They find this field interesting. It could be a career, a hobby or even a source of some extra income. 💸
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They could be digital marketers if they become more serious about it. 🤔
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How each of these three categories views digital marketing would be different. 😺
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Your persistence in gaining top digital knowledge and implementing it for successful results will make you a valuable professional digital marketer. 👌
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FACEBOOK SEEMS LIKE A GHOST TOWN TO ME 👻
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I know this is a bit extreme. But this is just how I feel when I post anything on my business Facebook page now. 😾
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I have only 81 Likes on my page, but had there been even 8100 likes there, I would still feel the same way. 💀
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Why? I have my reasons. 🐇
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↔️ NO ENGAGEMENT 🐦
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As everyone knows there is close to nil organic engagement on business Facebook page now. You post on your biz FB and the organic reach is close to 1-2%. Ridiculous and laughable. 😰
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You may have a page with 50,000 Likes, but average number of Likes for each of your post would be around 200-300. And you can forget about any Shares. That’s what the situation is. 📲
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↔️ PAY TO PLAY 🐦
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As you know, you need to buy Facebook ads to get any Likes or engagement now. When you buy their ad and run it, you will get so many Likes that you will smile and smile. 😄
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You can either Boost your Post or Boost your FB page. They will get a boost alright. But what happens once the ad runs out. Nothing. So, it is pay-to-play on Facebook. Nothing more. 🚷
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↔️ FORGOTTEN LIKES 🐦
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What do you do once you get so many Likes from your Boost Post and Boost Page campaigns? I mean, how do you handle the Likers? 🚥
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If you are not serious about those Likes you got and you are just happy with the number of Likes, then obviously your Facebook campaign had nothing to do with digital marketing. 🚧
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Value what you get when you pay to use Facebook platform to get leads that convert for your business. 🛩️
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Marketers say Facebook is a a good lead generation platform. But some people like me still consider it as nothing more than a virtual ghost town. ⛄️
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HAVE YOU EVER CREATED VIRAL CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA? ⏩📣
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➡️This post has gone viral
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➡️ This video has gone viral
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➡️ This photo has gone viral
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You must have come across these statements often on social media and even TV news. You must have thought: Can I also create a viral post/video/photo? 🤔
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You might have read a few blog posts and articles talking about viral content with click-bait headlines like -- “Here's the secret.../ “This is the secret sauce.../ “Now you too can create...viral content.” 🕺
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When you read that post you knew that the writer too had no idea how to create viral content. You must have mentally slapped that writer for wasting your time. 😠
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VIRAL FACT ✔️
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Thing is, even the smartest digital marketer alive today cannot claim that they can create an organic (not paid) post, photo or video that can go viral at will on social media. ♉️
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Clients and businesses of course do request their digital marketing agency to create viral content. But any self-respecting agency quickly puts down any such silly demand of their client and ignores it. 🚮
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MY VIRAL FACEBOOK POST ✔️
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Luckily, three years back, I created and published one viral Facebook post in August 2015. It just happened on its own. ✴️
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Iranian film director Majid Majidi had released his film 'Muhammad - The Messenger of God’ in Iran on August 26, 2015. I saw the news on a website on Aug 27 morning. I thought this would be an interesting post. 🎬
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I collected 6-7 film pics together in one post, wrote a few lines about the film and added a link to film trailer. My FB post was ready the same morning. I published it on my business FB page and then shared it on my personal FB profile page. 🖱️
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I was shaking my head when I saw the number of shares it had received by that evening. In one week that FB organic post received 700+ shares and a Post Reach of 60,000+. 😱
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I felt so important for one week. 😋
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The most beautiful lines of the poem-i wanted to see u for so long,ur presence infront of me makes me weak in the knees,,u r like that stone which is thrown into the still waters of my heart,u were never there for me but as a beautiful memory never forgotten and most painful- line-i dare not come closer u should choose to move further away..Nice effort through this composition-i
@Manika: Thank you 🙂 At times the right words come to express what I want to say.
Beautiful poem! 😊
@Sayeed: thank you. I couldn’t even categorise it as a poem. 😊
This poem is painful..It seems to be telling an unsucceessful story about two lovers..It ends at an unpleasant n unsatisfied note..The pic.chosen for the depiction of the girl could be of a prettier girl..i felt..Sad tale told through this ‘unrhymed poem’
@Manika: True. This ‘unrhymed poem’ ends on an unpleasant note. I couldn’t do anything, but go with the flow. 😊