SCHOOOOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER! With a heap of free time on your hands, there’s a danger you’re gonna get bored - LOL! To avoid this catastrophic situation, I’ve put together a holiday reading list of awesome reports. It’ll test your knowledge and teach you new tricks. There are also a heap of useful free templates.

Sound familiar? Competitor analysis is performed at the creation of a new company or during development of a new product. Social media is scanned daily, checking out what the competition is doing. This is NOT good competitive analysis. Much will be assumed, more will be missed. Good competitor analysis provides valuable insights into how to run your business, and win!

YouTube is the largest video-sharing social media channel on the Web. It’s a place for uploading and sharing videos; used by individuals, video creators, businesses, musicians, etc. You can find how-to videos, political Q&As, movies, comedy acts, and the obligatory cat clips. I’ve dug deep and found 82 cracking YouTube stats that’ll jazz up your marketing campaigns. YouTube is the...

PR is a huge job, if you don’t have the best tools at hand. To make life easier for you, I’ve trawled through gazillions of PR tools, and picked out the best. These PR tools will help with monitoring your media mentions online, finding journalists, outreach, writing, pitching – the whole kit and caboodle.

Using Facebook for your business? According to a Forrester report, Facebook dominates the social landscape. With a penetration rate of 63%, if you’re not using it, now's the time to start! The platform’s inbuilt analytics tool, Facebook Insights, gives you, the page owner, the tools to track user interaction, the number of active users, and overall page performance. Facebook Insights...

5 - 4 - 1! A free download of five brand marketing reports. Yours with a single click. Next time your boss starts pumping you for information - results, insights, future plans, ROI - you'll be ready.