Content Marketing: Page 458

  • How Your Business Should Be Preparing for Google+

    What does Google+ mean for your business? Google+ has been gaining steam in the social media world since the beginning of its test prelaunch in early July. Gaining upwards of 1.7 Million Google+ accounts in its first week, and rising to an estimated 4.5 Million accounts the following week. All b...

    By • Aug. 9, 2011

  • Social Media Monitoring - Why You Need It

    Yes. There are still execs and other decision makers who haven't latched onto the benefits of incorporating social media into their corporate strategy. In a guest post on Social Media Explorer, author and co-owner of Professional Blog Service Erik Deckers shares his list of reasons why brands sh...

    By • Aug. 9, 2011

  • 8 Essential Rules for Social Media and Business

    Joshua Leatherman is the author of the book If Social Media is a Game, These are the Rules: 10 Rules for Building a Profitable Social Media Strategy.Social Media is a complex and evolving medium that many businesses struggle to figure out. Few find quantifiable success with it, many have failed, ...

    By • Aug. 9, 2011

  • Twitter: When Less is More. Tips for (Not) Getting Unfollowed

    The news that @barackobama has apparently hemorrhaged 35,00 followers in the past few days has set the social media world sniggering with schadenfreude. These were the followers who presumably didn't appreciate being spammed with 113 tweets in the space of a few hours, exhorting them to tweet-lob...

    By • Aug. 8, 2011

  • CEO Interview: Brandon Evans of Crowdtap

    The CEO interview series continues with Brandon Evans of Crowdtap. If you're not familiar with Crowdtap, they describe themselves as "the network for Brand Influencer Communities." Crowdtap allows marketers to easily collaborate with and mobilize their targeted brand crowd of influential consumer...

    By • Aug. 8, 2011

  • Social Network Marketing: 6 Things Social Sites Can Do to Keep Users Interested

    As noted in my previous post, Five Tips for a Better Beta-Tester Strategy, I try to check out as many new platforms, tools and services as I can. The vast majority of the time the technology is good enough and the idea is good enough, but the enterprise ends up falling flat for me. I'll play with...

    By • Aug. 7, 2011

  • 4 Reasons Why Facebook Stinks for B2B Marketing

    Recently, I was preparing a workshop on social media for an ITSMA client. The marketer in charge of the company's social media effort gave me a clear edict: "Look, I don't want you focusing on Facebook, okay? We don't see the value of it for B2B and we want it off the table. Every time we talk ab...

    By • Aug. 6, 2011

  • Sex sells, Social Media influences

    Social Media created a power that everyone wants to harness, for several different reasons. Many people use this power for good, and those that try to use it for evil will quickly be burned. I am referring to the Influencer Model, a marketing method previously known as Brand Ambassadors. Sex is t...

    By • Aug. 5, 2011

  • Social Media- What Goes Around, Comes Around...And Stays Around

    "Instant karma's gonna get you."-John LennonPoor Charlie Wenzel. Poor, poor Charlie Wenzel.On October 2, 2005 at 9:21pm, this struggling 19-year-old decided to sell some truck gears. He listed them on an industry website for $100, plus $15 for shipping. Sounds fair. A buyer cut him a check, which...

    By • Aug. 5, 2011

  • 6 Tips for Creating an Online Community

    Are you considering building an online community? In order to build a strong community, there are a few key factors every business should take into consideration.This article will assist you in gathering the building blocks for a strong online community.#1: Know Your AudienceEvery business should...

    By • Aug. 4, 2011

  • Whole Foods Market's Subtle Social Media Marketing Plan

    According to Bill Tolany of Whole Foods Market, responses to customer comments make up 85% of all the Tweets the company sends out. 10% of the Tweets are content-based and 5% are promotional. Mr. Tolany, in remarks made at the Corporate Social Media Summit in New York in June, indicated custom...

    By • Aug. 4, 2011

  • Top 5 Causes of Customer Drop-off in Microsite Marketing

    The marketing world is continuing to move towards a more integrated, cross-channel approach in creating campaigns. Direct mail, social media, digital ads, and email marketing are all being utilized to get the most out of an advertising campaign. This movement has created a need to funnel marketin...

    By • Aug. 3, 2011

  • What Exactly is an Online Community Manager?

    You've been to communities, you may have even created them, but what roles are evolving within them? Online community management by no means is a standard job, so I decided to seek out what other online community managers are currently doing. Like the start of all things we are curious about no...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • The KISS of Death in Social Content Creation

    Social media is a double edged sword. We all have a voice but sometimes that is not a good thing. The question is; are we using our social voice properly?Production of valuable and engaging content is still a big issue. We have all been told 'content is king' but what does this mean in social ...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • How Social Rewards Programs are Changing Online Marketing

    Rewards programs are everywhere. Credit cards, frequent flier miles, grocery chains and drug stores. You can hardly buy a book or pack of gum without them asking you if you have a card or if you're a member. Last Friday I attended a board meeting at swanky Del Frisco's on Boston's waterfront and...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • 5 Things You Need To Know About the Google +1 Button

    The Google +1 Button was developed by Google as a way for people to recommend products, services, businesses, people, or anything else that may be found on a webpage that they might like. A website owner or business would add the button to their page or site and a visitor wishing to recommend th...

    By • Aug. 2, 2011

  • Six Tips for Using Google+ Now

    Well, much to my chagrin, I just saw that PRNews is offering Google+ training for $329. This is so disappointing to me. Clearly they haven't read that the new tool is in a sophomore slump and that it's not yet available for businesses. But it's not stopping my own industry from trying to make mon...

    By • Aug. 1, 2011

  • "Circles" of Knowledge

    Google Plus has gotten lots of attention lately with much of the commentary focused around the "circles feature". Now comes the collaborative dialog of how best to set up and use circles. However most of the suggestions are simply copying old organization models. We must begin to ask what and ...

    By • Aug. 1, 2011

  • 12 Tools to Measure Social Influence (Maybe)

    Social media influence is a bit like oxygen - we "know" it's there and we know in some sense that it is essential for "life" if we're in marketing, advertising or public relations, but can we capture it in a jar and observe it? No. Well, at least not entirely.Any number of tools - freely availabl...

    By • Aug. 1, 2011

  • 13 Tips to Get Back to Biz in a Social Google+ Circling, Liking, Tweeting World!

    It's easy to get lost in never never circle, like, follow and link land.

    By • July 31, 2011

  • The Obama Team Takes to Twitter

    So how important is the debt ceiling crisis? So important it has gotten the Obama team to actually use Twitter. I'm only sort of kidding.

    By • July 30, 2011

  • How Much Information Do We Give Away Every Day Online?

    Online privacy... it's an issue we are all, or least should be, very concerned about. But I don't think most of us realize just how much information we give away every single day. We're online all the time... or so it seems. We all search to our heart's content. We make purchases online, do our ...

    By • July 29, 2011

  • Social Media and Free Speech, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

    "Unlike in the real world, where social etiquette and manners can sometimes seem restrictive and limiting , people feel they have a greater sense of freedom of expression and/or of speech when using online networks."

    By • July 29, 2011

  • Community, weight loss, IABC, and Facebook vs. Google+

    That headline looks like a jumble of concepts if ever you've seen one. But bear with me, it will all make sense. Early this year, Steve Crescenzo tweeted that he'd like to lose weight by the start of the 2011 IABC World Conference. A number of us responded that we had the same goal, and Tom Keefe...

    By • July 29, 2011

  • Growing the Circle of Trust

    Most organizations focus their attention on growing their customer base. The real focus should be on growing the circle of people that trust what you stand for.Do that and the customer part will take care of itself with the aid of some simple "how to buy" education.Think about the last purchase y...

    By • July 29, 2011