May 17, 2012
- A well thought out hashtag campaign can have tremendous results. Have you tried your own hashtag campaign? What do you think about some of the hashtag campaigns you’ve seen?
May 15, 2012
- Facebook's IPO must be understood as a bone-of-contention of the Apple, Microsoft and Google APP war. Sharing used to be a positive attitude; it could well be the fastest way to give up our freedom.
- Dave Balter is a man who needs no introduction. As CEO of BzzAgent, a company that connects brands with over 400 million global brand advocates and author of two word-of-mouth marketing books, there’s hardly a person better suited to speak on influence and word-of-mouth (WOM). We recently caught up with Dave to interview him for our latest e-book, 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital, and talk about influence and how marketers can leverage it....
- I help businesses (of various industries) with their social media marketing initiatives, but in the last year I've focused a lot of my attention to the real estate industry. Social media is EXACTLY what real estate agents need (now more than ever) to build relationships with potential home buyers.
- Here are some of the reasons why I think it's the ultimate opportunity to prove the potential impact that social media can have in managing reputation and tipping the scale in the all-important "court of public opinion." Executing a digital strategy for Goldman Sachs that would change the sentiment of both the public and Wall Street would be the validation that social media, and especially social media in the financial services sector, really works. It's the ultimate use...
- Microsoft Bing is revamping its search engine to include a sidebar to enable you to obtain recommendations from users of Facebook when making a search on Bing. It is not just Facebook but they are planning to include many other networks.
May 14, 2012
- You know that feeling when you see something really cool in action? You see in unfold right before you. Last Fall, I had the incredible opportunity of attending in NYC and saw social media and online marketing used so smartly to sell out an event with zero seats to spare and create an enormous amount of buzz for next year’s event. This is what every business needs to know about using social media for a sell out event, including getting the word out in the first place, strategies for engaging...
May 10, 2012
- With 90 percent of purchases subject to social influence, it's no surprise that savvy marketers are looking to leverage social influencers to increase sales and awareness. Influence is the single most effective and most enduring marketing asset. Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital gives marketers a framework for maximizing their social influence strategy by specifically, outlining steps to leverage both internal and external brand advocates....
- As I've rebranded and relocated the ol' blog, I took a look at the evolution of social media from 2007 to today. So, hop in the ol' DeLorean and take a look at how far we've come!
May 9, 2012
- FOUR YEARS AGO, the Washington Post dubbed Barack Obama the “King of Social Media.” It was a fitting sobriquet. After all, Obama used the untested new medium to flat-out out-fox and out-run the most well-oiled, well-entrenched political machine of our time in the Clintons. But Obama’s secrets are no longer. The GOP is poised to pounce and will likely use everything they learned, with a potent mix of new tactics, to rocket Romney to victory in November....