Social Marketing: Page 333

  • Digital Entrepreneur Tips: An Interview with Two Digital Innovators

    It's 2014. We're on the cusp of another tech explosion and eager entrepreneurs are capitalizing on their ideas to produce stellar products and influential content.It's all about the hustle. Some individuals posses an innate responsibility to fulfill a need with a product, while other entreprene...

    By • Jan. 27, 2014

  • Social Media for Healthcare Providers in 5 Steps

    A new IMS Health Report suggests that half of the Top 50 pharmaceutical companies in the world "do not engage with consumers or patients through social media, and only 10 companies" utilize Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.Yikes.But health seekers are online, actively looking for information. Four ...

    By • Jan. 26, 2014

  • You Have a Failing Grade on Social Media Response Time [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Many (most?) users of social media love to express their experiences, thoughts and opinions, often to a point of "oversharing." Who hasn't seen a comment posted on a brand's social media page where a customer talks about an experience with a product that's a little too personal?Peruse the Charmin® Toilet Paper facebook page and you'll see what I mean.

    By • Jan. 24, 2014

  • Social Organization: What Are Best Practices for Internal Collaboration?

    This week I moderated another webinar in the Social Media Today Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of Social Organization: What Are Best Practices for Internal Collaboration? The webinar included a superb panel: Sabrina Stoffregen, who is Intel's Director of Ambassadors and Corpo...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • Look Through the Social Window

    That glorious "bing" heralding from your social page signals more than just a comment or mention.Repeat after me:"Bing" = Content IdeasThe comments fans and followers leave on your brand's Facebook page and the tweets that mention your organization ultimately convey the thoughts and experiences o...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • How to Name a Company to Succeed in Social Business

    As a start-up or social enterprise, you have one advantage over big and well-established brands: You get to start with a clean slate and that includes your company name. Most multi-national corporations and industry monopolies were framed in days when most of their attention and advertising spend...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • The Customer Experience Advice That No One Is Giving You [VIDEO]

    This post is part of the Deep Thoughts at Dreamforce Series of candid interviews with customer experience thought leaders. You can view the other videos in the series here.Dr. Natalie Petouhoff is a consultant who has spent a large chunk of her career helping companies build better customer relat...

    By • Jan. 23, 2014

  • MLK Day: Community Not Chaos, a Global Social Media Sentiment

    Martin Luther King, Jr. had many dreams. A unifier and peaceful warrior whose warmth and strength made him a compelling leader, he may also have foreseen the future- as we know it today-while writing his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, which was published nearly half a c...

    By • Jan. 22, 2014

  • Hiring a Social Media Agency vs an In-House Person

    A few months ago, I attended a marketing conference in Miami, FL. Being that I was the 'social guy' in the room, of course, I was asked all of the questions related to social media. From what should I do on Twitter to does anybody even use Google plus? . . . I answered all of the questions based ...

    By • Jan. 18, 2014

  • NFL Focuses on a Better Customer Experience: Next Gen Marketing on Display

    I love the game of football. I've referenced parallels and correlations between football and business here and here and here, to name a few.Two of my primary areas of expertise are the "Digitization of Everything" and "Customer Experience", so it's little wonder that yesterday's announcement that...

    By • Jan. 18, 2014

  • Content Marketing Adoption Among Nonprofits [INFOGRAPHIC]

    It's clear that content marketing has been widely adopted in the for-profit realm, but how far behind do nonprofits lag, if at all?Recently, I surveyed Bloomerang's database of over 8,000 nonprofit organizations nationwide to gauge their content marketing efforts. The results of the survey can be...

    By • Jan. 18, 2014

  • Why the Facebook Ads Grant Petition for Nonprofits Is a Terrible Idea

    Following the release of Facebook's new "donate now" feature for nonprofit brand pages, a few intrepid and well-meaning fundraising and marketing experts rejuvenated an existing petition imploring Facebook to issue grants to nonprofits in order to create ads gratis.The idea behind this campaign i...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • 5 Easy Ways Non-Profits Can Shine on LinkedIn, Even B2C [SLIDESHARE]

    You won't believe the boost you can get.One of the most powerful benefits of social media is that it doesn't require big budgets or marketing teams to leverage.... Just time and the ability to learn new skills. Assuming the manpower is available, it's a richly featured, ideal playground for non-p...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • Why You Need Channel Specific Social Media Content

    The invention of social media dashboards is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, they are tremendous time savers. Using Sprout Social, Buffer, or HootSuite allows you to post content to multiple channels from one convenient location. However, dashboards have spawned one particularly bad habi...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • Are Spam Ads Going to Spoil the Jelly?

    Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recently launched 'Jelly', a new question and answer style social network. The concept of Jelly is that people take a photo of something with their mobile device then ask a question about it - 'What's this?' 'Where is this?' 'How do I fix this?' Then they post that im...

    By • Jan. 17, 2014

  • The Growth Story of Snapchat and Key Takeaways

    Snapchat - the photo messaging app that allows users to take and send "disappearing" photos witnessed a rather impressive growth in 2013. The brainchild of fraternity brothers Evan Spielgel and Robert Murphy, the self-destructive photo-sending app was without doubt the breakout consumer product o...

    By • Jan. 16, 2014

  • Social Startups: Centscere Simplifies Charitable Giving, One Cent at a Time, Through Social Change

    "Give more" may not be one of the top 10 New Year's resolutions, let alone one of yours. Maybe you've made it before, but unease about the economy, post-holiday financial stress, and lack of assets (except maybe loose pocket change) may be what's holding you back. Or perhaps you're a single paren...

    By • Jan. 16, 2014

  • How to Avoid LinkedIn's Site Wide Automatic Moderation (SWAM)

    As of January 2013, LinkedIn implemented a policy that has since taken on the acronym SWAM (Site Wide Automatic Moderation). The name SWAM was not officially given by LinkedIn - it was coined by the platform's users, and has since stuck. The basic tenets of SWAM are that if a member of a LinkedIn...

    By • Jan. 16, 2014

  • 6 Ways Non-Profits Can Use SnapChat

    Looking back at 2013, there's no doubt that non-profit organizations have matured in their ability to leverage social media to promote their causes.As we set forth in advancing our communication strategies for 2014, it's time to look beyond the "holy trinity" of social media, Twitter, Facbook and...

    By • Jan. 15, 2014

  • How Much is Twitter Worth to SMBs? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    As with all major IPO's, we will read a lot of diverse and conflicting opinions on its valuation: to some Twitter will be an overpriced money-losing startup, to others it will be the next major player of the Web and undervalued.

    By • Jan. 14, 2014

  • Should a Company Create a Separate Customer Service Twitter Handle?

    Social media completely changed the way people do business nowadays. Instead of having little communication between divisions, they now have to work together and quickly address any issue to a specialized department. Another significant change is the close integration with social media and custom...

    By • Jan. 14, 2014

  • It's 2014, But Nothing Has Changed in Social

    Since the calendar switched from 2013 to 2014, tons of news articles and blog posts have been hitting my RSS feed talking about how 2014 is a fresh start for social media managers. Articles ranging from "What Happened on Social in 2013" to "How to Tackle Social in 2014" have been doing the rounds...

    By • Jan. 13, 2014

  • Content Positioning: Free Speech & Career Suicide

    Over the past few weeks we witnessed a few monumental explosions of social media reactions. One over statements made by Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty." The other one was from now former public relations executive Justine Sacco, who made of the infamous #HasJustineLandedYet Tweet. Both situation...

    By • Jan. 13, 2014

  • 8 Ways to Keep Your Social Media Updates Fresh

    Small business owners managing their own social media often ask the same question: "How can I keep my updates fresh and engaging?"It's no easy task. If one were to poll marketers and business owners alike, he or she would find that creativity and the challenge of keeping updates from becoming sta...

    By Salman Aslam • Jan. 12, 2014

  • Finding Order in Social Networking Chaos

    That is my mission for 2014.I am throwing out the rules. I am eliminating the notes and disclaimers. I am retreating into the past.When I began speaking at social media conferences in 2009, I auto-followed 7,000 on Twitter and had nearly 1,000 Facebook friends. Drowned by the cacophony of voices,...

    By • Jan. 12, 2014