Who Are You? The Anonymity Of Internet
In recent days, Google has announced that they will drop their “real name” policy and allow users to use pseudo names on their platforms such as YouTube and Google+. “Over the years … we steadily opened up this policy … Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name…
The State of Social Media: What B2B Marketers Need to Know (Summer 2014)
Welcome to Summer 2014. Amazingly we are now into the 7th month of the year and each quarter keeps on bringing in new social media changes. Let’s take a look at what’s new this last quarter and what matters: The Temporary Messaging War Heats Up In the last month Facebook has launched Slingshot, the competitor…
5 Great Movement Brands To Learn From
5 Movement Brands Movements gather scale and membership over time. Campaigns, offers and sales don’t scale. The “never ending sale” trains shoppers to wait and expect more discounts, deeper discounts and better discounts. Discounting is crying wolf. Cry wolf enough and there may be a wolf but no one cares. Care, passion, emotional engagement…
A Social Media Strategy for Every Budget: Web Management
Social media is important for every company, yet in the rough and tumble changing landscape it’s also important to maintain a website. While small and medium-sized businesses may find it tempting to have just a Facebook or Twitter page for their business, such an assessment is at best, foolish. Therefore any company should consider a…
A Social Media Budget For Every Strategy: Content Marketing
With social media being so ubiquitous in marketing activities, marketers have many options to choose from when considering what platform to use. The numbers can be very confusing sometimes, in addition to the identification of why the marketer needs a particular platform. As I look at my social media efforts month over month, I always consider…
Why Your Marketing Starts With a Great Success Story (Part 2 of 2)
In our previous post, we discussed how great marketing starts with a good success and outlined a few ways of how a company could tell such a story. Luckily with the invention of many different technologies as well as the Internet, success stories can be told in many different ways. Going beyond the power granted…
Social Media and Fat Bob – First Ride
Re-published by kind permission of Brian Vickery Did I mention the time that I had to send my oldest daughter to college with my Jeep Liberty, and my wife said “why don’t you get a sports car?” Well, my youngest daughter is coming back from college, and she will want her car back – so my…
The Why, Where and How of Planning a Social Media Strategy
This article, re-published with kind permission of Danny Brown, gives a step-by-step, high level ‘why, where and how’ for getting your business immersed into Social Media, including some very useful resources. The picture he paints is not the one you will read elsewhere, that everything is very simple. The processes need thought, planning, time investment…
5 Ways to Please Your CMO Using This One Easy Trick
That title got your attention didn’t it? Such as the state of the Internet these days. Content marketing, having exploded in the way that it has over the past few months, has contributed to a robotic methodology of writing blog posts much like this one. Blog posts champion the importance of giving a numerical amount…
Six Ways to Measure Owned, Earned and Paid Social Media
Danny Brown has kindly given us permission to re-publish some of his articles. For those of you not familiar with him, Danny is a published author (co-author of Influence Marketing and The Parables Of Business), and an excellent and provocative writer not only for his own blog, dannybrown.me/blog, but also for IBM Open Forum. This…
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