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Why is Tailoring Content for your Global Audience Essential?
To translate, localise or transcreate: that is the question?! Did you know that out of the world's approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English? That most of those people aren't even native English speakers? In...

How to use Neuromarketing to Boost Your Next Campaign
In this increasingly data-driven world, there’s one area which many marketeers are yet to fully explore (or understand), and that’s how the human brain reacts to their campaigns. In this article, Emma Easter, content marketer and neuro-enthusiast, discusses...

Writing the Way Forward
Acorn Strategy’s in-house copywriter Omar Khalifa takes a broad look at the emergence of copywriting and why good copy is critically important. In one of the world’s earliest acts of copywriting, a family that lived during the Song Dynasty in China wrote a few...

Social Fatigue: The Struggle is Real
Four billion people around the world use social media but, for all the growth and fancy new features available for content creators, is there a chance we’re getting – whisper it – a bit fed up with it all? Kevin Hackett shines a light on current social media trends...

The Content Amplification Programme | Public Relations | Acorn Strategy
Extending the Life of a News Story: The Content Amplification Programme How to amplify the impact of a good new story using content marketing principles? In this fast-paced world, even the best stories are here today and gone tomorrow, and one of the challenges most...

Behavioural Intelligence
We have all encountered difficult people and have had to deal with them whether in our day-to-day life or at work. Behavioural intelligence refers to one’s ability to affect their environment through overt behaviour. It is one thing to know the rules and regulations,...

How Can the Growing UAE Tourism Industry Benefit Your Business?
Expo 2020 Dubai is driving growth in the tourism sector. How can your company maximise the opportunities this will provide? If you’re thinking of expanding your business into the UAE to benefit from the many opportunities Expo 2020 Dubai will bring, you may be...

Destination Marketing: Why Seasoned Pros Can Make All the Difference
Destination Marketing: Why Seasoned Pros Can Make All the Difference Destination marketing is a unique and evolving specialisation, bringing with it unfamiliar territory, structures and contexts for those not operating in the industry. But as with any marketing...

Using Ramadan Content Insights to Boost Engagement
A Data-based Approach to Drive Ramadan Content Decisions The holy month of Ramadan is one of the most special times in the Islamic calendar, as the month marks the time during which Allah gave the first chapters of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad. During...