Why Your Marketing Needs Real-Time Data

Another Advertising Week in New York is upon us and so far I have seen some great presentations from companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quantcast, comScore, and even Yahoo!. However, if there is one thing that is becoming painfully clear to me is the need to be relevant to your audience – whether you are [...]

October 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Advertising, Applications, Data Mining, Innovation, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy | Comment

Microsoft’s Future in Digital Marketing

Over the weekend I got to meet with Romi Mahajan the World Wide Director of the Digital Marketing Platform Group at Microsoft. His role is to create the vision for Digital Marketing as it relates to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites, and Microsoft FAST Search Server technology to create great digital experiences for its customers [...]

April 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Applications, Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Marketing, Strategy | 6 comments

HOW TO: Grow your Facebook Page by 17% in 1 week!

No this isn’t a scam or a trick to get you to buy one of my books (but please don’t let that stop you from doing so). This is a really basic technique that a number of Fan pages are still missing out on and that is … make sure your landing page for first [...]

January 6th, 2011 | Category: Applications, Facebook | Comment

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

Facebook’s Like Button adds Life to your Content

Like it or hate it – the Like button is here to stay. In the first week of its launch 50,000 like buttons were integrated on various websites and more than 1M “likes” were registered within 24 hours of its introduction. At last count well over 100,000 websites integrate some form of Facebook’s social plugins [...]

October 20th, 2010 | Category: Applications, Buzz Marketing, Content Marketing, Crowdsourcing, Facebook, Social Media, Social Networking | 3 comments

Facebook can’t be stopped and here’s why!

I am just putting the finishing touches on the 2nd Edition of Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger (and BTW we have sold over 20,000 copies in less than a year!). We also just completed Facebook Advertising for Dummies (Wiley) which is due to ship in November. And a question I [...]

October 6th, 2010 | Category: Advertising, Applications, behavioral targeting, Commerce, Facebook, Online Advertising, Social Networking | 6 comments