Content Marketing: Page 421

  • When Did It Become Cool to Coupon?

    4 Influencers that Make Coupon Marketing CoolThe coupon industry has come a long way from the nostalgic days of my grandmother clipping coupons from Manchester, New Hampshire's Union Leader newspaper. In some ways, it's even become "cool." Inmar, a company that operates collaborative commerce ne...

    By • May 3, 2012

  • Can I Really Make Money With Pinterest?

    This social bookmarking website experienced tremendous growth in the past year. In fact, it now generates more website referral traffic than LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit and Google Plus combined (source: MarketProfs). That's an amazing statistic for any website who sells products to the public. You ...

    By • May 3, 2012

  • How Would Your Social Media Strategy Change if Facebook Bought BING?

    These days we talk so much about disruption that we forget that one of the most disruptive companies around grew and revolved around search. Google used search to help us make sense of a massive web and then monetized it by radically changing the way advertising worked. We talk of social media wi...

    By • May 2, 2012

  • Who needs a structured social strategy?

    Good question. What difference does it make if I go with the flow and use ad hoc, day-to-day comunication to achieve my social goals? My target audience is so specific, I can't go wrong.How we got hereSocial media, for many, is about connecting with individuals online. What started off as a great...

    By • May 2, 2012

  • Your Website is a Mousetrap and Your Content is the Cheese

    Mice aren't attracted to mousetraps. They're attracted to what you put on it. The same goes for websites. What are you putting on yours?Let's start with a dead mouse.When you run down to the hardware store to invest in a mousetrap, I'm quite sure you have a very clear idea of what you're trying t...

    By • May 1, 2012

  • Major League Baseball can Hit A Social Media Marketing Home Run

    I fell asleep at a very important baseball game and woke up in a BBC documentary on Facebook and Social Media Marketing!This dream video shows the power of ambient social media experiences which were so talked about at SXSW although this is using tagged photos which give a much higher ROI for Soc...

    By • May 1, 2012

  • Hugo Boss uses an Integrated 3D Social Media Campaign

    I came across a very interesting integrated social media campaign this morning from Hugo Boss. The use of 3D technology has been a big trend in the box office lately, and Hugo Boss has taken this 3D buzz to help promote their Boss Black Fall/Winter 2012 line.Hugo Boss will be releasing their Boss...

    By • April 30, 2012

  • What's Up With All the Talk About Negative SEO?

    Your Website Is One Among Millions © by FindYourSearchA lot of discussion lately has been going around if negative SEO exists. You may be thinking, what is negative SEO? Negative SEO is when a competitor that is trying to rank for the same keyword as you would point thousands and thousands of s...

    By • April 30, 2012

  • 6 Ways to Help the Victims of Another Company's Social Media Crisis

    Note from the editor: This is the second part of a two-part series on helping the victims of another company's social media crisis by providing them with a solution. The first part of this series talks about Bob Taylor, of Taylor Guitars, and how he increased his sales revenue by 25% after helpin...

    By • April 30, 2012

  • Want Change? Use Video

    Okay, hands up if you're struggling with making change within your organisation?The greatest challenge in the change management is making people care about the message that we are telling them. This isn't an easy thing to do - especially in organisations, where people are swamped with daily work activities.Most people just want to get on with their daily routine and maintain status quo. It's not that people are lazy. They just need to be convinced that the change is worth their attention and energy.

    By • April 30, 2012

  • 21 Seriously Strong Content Marketing Magnets

    Content marketing is the process of creating and delivering valuable content to your target customers. While the essential ingredient is, of course, content, the recipe only works when a bond forms between your brand and customer. Because in a connected world, the disconnected are doomed.End of s...

    By • April 30, 2012

  • LinkedIn 4x Better for B2B Leads than Facebook or Twitter

    I presented at the LinkedIn #B2BConnect 2012 event on April 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India. A few weeks ago as I was preparing my talk, I asked my friends at HubSpot if they had any data on the effectiveness of LinkedIn that I could share with my audience. Rebecca Corliss came through with some awesome new data which I am releasing for the first time here.

    By • April 29, 2012

  • Interactive Advertising Makes Inroads at America's Malls

    It had only been a few weeks since my last visit to Sun Valley Mall in Concord, California, but during our trek this weekend, we found that the mall had added two interactive installations that foretell part of the future of advertising.On entering the mall, we saw a Fox-sponsored "Stop. Scan. Shop." display driven by both QR codes and proprietary Fox images. The display featured a video monitor playing clips of movies, along with movie ads the featured QR codes. Passers-by could scan the codes with their phones and order the movie for delivery to their homes.

    By • April 29, 2012

  • Helping the Victims of Another Company's Social Media Crisis: Taylor Guitars

    Note from the editor: This is the first of a two-part series on helping the victims of another company's social media crisis and providing them with a solution to their problem. Read the second part of this series here. A crisis is a hectic time for everybody involved. But what about when you're ...

    By • April 29, 2012

  • How Brands Will Redeem Klout's Clout

    As a community manager, I'm constantly fascinated with social influence. So, when Klout introduced itself as the standard for that very thing, I took notice. You may already know from a previous article that I was less than impressed. As it stands today, Klout thinks I'm influential about a numbe...

    By • April 28, 2012

  • Prevent a Social Media Crisis with a Simple Game of Devil's Advocate

    Although many social media crises are unpreventable and most annoyingly unpredictable, there does exist another category of social media crises - the ones that could have been avoided - the preventable.As our social media marketing is done through online campaigns and the creation and sharing of ...

    By • April 28, 2012

  • 5 Facebook Insights Your Business Can't Ignore

    Don't get me wrong, I happen to love third-party social media tools. I'm an sucker early adopter for most of them and I like to see what's happening in the social media metric world. But when it comes time to get down and dirty with Facebook metrics, I turn to the spreadsheet everyone loves to h...

    By • April 27, 2012

  • Confessions of a Social Media Girl: No Botox Needed, Being an Aged Brand on Facebook is Cool

    For those of you who were lucky enough to have been great-great grandfathered into the company you now own, I envy you. Being able to maintain a brand through the last 10 years of our country's economic roller coaster is like running back to back marathons- I tip my hat to you folks. So your bra...

    By • April 27, 2012

  • Tragic News Demands Marine Corps Social Media Leadership, Not Retreat

    Moments after I posted my sympathies about the loss of two Marines in Afghanistan on their unit's Facebook page, it was gone. Deleted. Arbitrarily removed as a violation by their public affairs office.

    By • April 27, 2012

  • How to Use HubSpot to Measure Your Social Media Marketing

    Boston-based inbound marketing company Hubspot has created a comprehensive suite of marketing automation software tools that help companies efficiently manage their online (inbound) marketing efforts. Hubspot's all-in-one solution helps your business connect with prospects interested in your prod...

    By • April 27, 2012

  • Importance of Internal PR

    I started my career as a project management professional in telecom. Although I am back in Telecom now, I've had quite an interesting journey getting here. From setting up an agricultural business selling low cost drip irrigation to high-tech financial services over mobile phones, I've bumped sho...

    By • April 27, 2012

  • The Future of Social Media and Business

    The future of social media is evolving and consumers have increasingly turned first and foremost to digital media, both at home and on the go. Beyond just social media, customers are deeply engaged with products and services across the entire digital space-and it's by choice. They're using multip...

    By • April 26, 2012

  • Return on Influence: 5 Questions with Mark Schaefer

    Whether you realize it or not, every tweet, comment and "Like" is being scrutinized and scored for your social influential power. Companies like Klout and Kred are developing complex algorithms that attempt to standardize social influence and evaluate your social muscle to develop strategic busin...

    By • April 26, 2012

  • ViDEO: Todd Wheatland from the C-Suite about Jumping into Social

    Small companies jumping into social media may constrained by resources. But a large company that spends year controlling its messages to maintain a positive, consistent face in the marketplace might just find it even harder.That's why big companies need to determine if they have the right struct...

    By • April 26, 2012

  • 10 Tips to Gain More Exposure on Facebook

    If you're like most companies, your Facebook business page is meant to build connections with new prospects and solidify relationships with existing customers. Facebook's switch to Timeline facilitates these goals by providing a more visually-engaging and user-friendly format for displaying conte...

    By • April 25, 2012