Use Social Media to set Smart Media strategies

Let’s make the assumption that you’ve successfully integrated your paid, owned and earned (POE) marketing efforts across the board. You’ve cut off a lot of fat and reduced the amount of money thrown in more directions than you can pay attention to. Now what?

First, recognize that there are too many potential consumer touch-point opportunities offered [...]

April 20th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advertising, Business Intelligence, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Media, Social Media, Social Networking | Comment

Consolidate and Coordinate your Media

Forrester has observed that advertising/PR agencies are battling each other for dominance in the digital media space. In reality, the agencies that are actively engaged in this battle are not the ones you want to represent you.

Instead, you want truly integrated agencies like the ones Kirk Cheyfitz alludes to in a recent Huffington Post article. [...]

April 13th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Advertising, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Interactive Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking | Comment

The End of Traditional Marketing

Paid, owned and earned media. Those three words, often shortened to “POE,” have bounced around for years. And, like the contemplations of communication theorist Marshall McLuhan, they have taken on new meaning with the collision of traditional and digital marketing strategies.

In 2009 Forrester issued a report that outlined the world of interactive marketers in the [...]

April 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advertising, Buzz Marketing, Data Mining, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Media, Social Media, Social Networking | 2 comments

Social Lift is the Ultimate Rate of Change

You have a killer piece of original content that starts rippling out from its source. The two things social lift analysis can tell you are how far and how fast those ripples move. If the content ripples 900 times, but that takes 10 years, you won’t see much benefit. If it ripples 900 times in [...]

March 30th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Advertising, Data Mining, Interactive Marketing, Media, Online Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking | Comment

Social Media – the Next Frontier!

Many BtoB organizations these days are spending time and money to listen to the conversations that are happening about their [...]

March 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advertising, Innovation, Listening, Monitoring, Reputation Monitoring, Social Media, Social Networking, Support | 2 comments

News Feed Optimization (NFO) is the new SEO!

One of the big mistakes I often see with companies when they are setting up a Page on Facebook is they spend more time planning “the wedding than they do the marriage” as I like to say. They spend all of the effort to get the page perfect and have it be in compliance with [...]

January 11th, 2011 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Interactive Marketing, Lead Generation, Social Media, Social Networking | Comment

10 Best Posts of 2010

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as [...]

December 29th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Support, Facebook, Innovation, Interactive Marketing, Listening, Monitoring, Social Media, Social Networking | 2 comments

What a Trifecta of a Year!

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the [...]

December 22nd, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Blogging, Branding, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Customer Support, Facebook, Inbound Marketing, Listening, Social Media, Thought Leadership | 2 comments

Facebook Advertising Tricks for B2B Marketers

If I could offer you a billboard in the middle of Times Square for little to no cost for you to advertise your company would you do it? One of the great things about the Facebook is that it provides you access to a large audience of over 550 Million people worldwide at a very [...]

December 15th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Facebook, Interactive Marketing, Lead Generation, Online Advertising, Pay Per Click, SEO, Social Media, Social Networking | 7 comments

11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011

Around this time last year I wrote about the 10 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2010 and while I would say 7 out of 10 have already materialized and the others are on their way. So that begs the question – what’s on the horizon specifically for B2B Marketers next year?

Here are 11 concrete ways I [...]

December 8th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Applications, Buzz Marketing, Commerce, Communications, Conversational Marketing, Customer Experience, Customer Support, Facebook, Mobile, Monitoring, Online Advertising, Pay Per Click, Reputation Management, Reputation Monitoring, SEO, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Twitter | 27 comments
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