Blog

News, views, opinions and general musings from across the Fifth Ring world.

Keeping the doors of communication open to your stakeholders

by Amnah Senen
17 Apr

COVID-19 is no doubt changing our way of life and daily routines. By now, almost all companies in Singapore have joined the work-from-home (WFH) movement as part of stricter safe distancing measures in place.

At Fifth Ring, we continue communicating internally using various digital tools available and setting some foundations to ensure we operate as near to normal as possible. We have replaced face-to-face meetings with conference calls, refocused our marketing efforts, and reviewed clients’ marcomms plans for the year.

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Topics: Team, Marketing, Personas

4 Types of Creative Content to Boost Your Social Media Performance

by Haley Martin
13 Apr

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut with social media marketing. After writing social media again and again, it can start to feel a little stale.

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Topics: Content, Social Media, Marketing, Creative

10 Tips to Build a Content Strategy to Grow Your Business

by Haley Martin
09 Apr

You know the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”? Well, the same applies to content. Today holds the most content there ever has been, and also the least there ever will be again.

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Topics: Content, Marketing, Strategy

Building Engagement with the 'Always On'

by Fifth Ring
13 Jan

The world around us has changed, our lives are becoming increasingly busy and we are now living in an age of 'always on.'

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Topics: Content, Marketing, Strategy

How to Fill Your Empty Social Media Schedule

by Michael Madden
11 Dec

We've all been there before. A blank social media calendar with no ideas to fill it. So you type "social media marketing strategy" in google search and hope to find the creative spark that will help you produce killer content.

But, in reality, you'll be offered pages and pages of results all offering you the same thing. A downloadable template or calendar. This isn't going to change the game or help you stand out. Thousands of other marketers have just done the same thing. And, you are just adding to the growing list of crap. So don't waste your time. 

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Topics: Marketing, Strategy, Digital Marketing

10 Sloppy Social Media Mistakes to Fix NOW

by HubSpot
09 Oct

Mistakes are a healthy part of every marketing strategy, and they're certainly nothing to be ashamed of in the new(ish) world of social media. That said, being sloppy is a whole different story.

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Topics: Social Media, Marketing, Strategy, Digital Marketing

The Marketing Multiplier

by Chris Wolf
27 Sep

The real secrets of why companies with in-house marketing and
communications teams partner with agencies

Most small to mid-size businesses work with marketing and communications (a.k.a. marcomms) agencies on everything from sales campaigns to brand building. 

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Topics: Marketing, Strategy, Digital Marketing

The Age of Earned

by Fifth Ring
19 Sep

This is the age of earned. In recent times, there has increasingly been more focus on digital marketing for owned and paid media with the ability to accurately measure the result of our campaigns. But with public relations moving at a greater pace than anyone else in marketing and communications – turbo charged by digital, our skills are more relevant than ever. But we need to move fast to take advantage!

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Topics: Public Relations, Marketing, Strategy

How to present, like a boss, to your Board

by Chris Wolf
18 Sep

Private Equity boards are comprised of individuals with a significant amount of wealth at risk, so naturally, their primary concern is the growth trajectory of the company in which they invested. Beyond that, by the time you are presenting to your board, they will have conducted all of their due diligence before the buyout, and are now focused on the ongoing operations of the business. They want to see a structured plan that is a mix of aspirational and realistic, as well as the concrete steps that will be taken to achieve that growth. 

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Topics: Marketing, Strategy

Why Copywriting in 2020 Doesn't Mean Shit

by Alan Stobie
16 Sep

I was on Linkedin earlier. No, I wasn’t looking for a new job. I was looking at a friend request from someone involved in a strategic business streamlining network who had ‘felt some synergies between our business methodologies’ and felt it was a great idea to link. I didn’t really feel the synergy. Really, I didn’t. In fact I don’t know what synergy feels like…a tingling sensation? An unrelenting calling? Hives?

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Topics: Marketing, Strategy, Copywriting, Creative