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A Growing Number of Your Brand’s Followers Are Dead… Seriously
Massive user numbers are often used to showcase the reach of platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter). However, behind these numbers lies a growing and often overlooked issue: the significant portion of accounts that belong to deceased individuals. Understanding this reality is crucial for brands, as it impacts platforms’ actual value and marketing efforts’ effectiveness. The Rising…
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You Are Not the Fortune 500
Roger Yu of USA Today just wrote an article a few days ago on companies abandoning blogging: With the emergence of social media, more companies are replacing blogs with nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. The entire article is fairly balanced… but the data may be a bit misrepresentative of all corporations. First,…
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7 Surefire Tips for Courting A Guest Blog Post
Guest blogging is an intricate and delicate process that should be treated like the beginning of any relationship: seriously and with care. As a blog owner, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been emailed terribly written, spammy emails. Blogs, like relationships, take a lot of effort and a potential guest blogger shouldn’t treat it as a frivolous process.…
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Do Your Customers LOVE You?
Do your customers love you? New survey data from Responsys reveals how brands can maintain long-term relationships with consumers and avoid unnecessary breakups. Responsys research shows that consumers take the plunge with brands when their messages are part of an orchestrated customer experience that unfolds over time, across channels and according to an individual’s behaviors and preferences. With the right…
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Be Smart Enough to Find the Answers
1.webp” class=”s3-img alignright” border=”0″ align=”right” alt=”baseball-cap.jpg” />Earlier this week, I posted a tweet promoting a product that was pretty cool. The application was graphically beatiful and incredibly useful… but I couldn’t actually figure out what it did or how to use it without a lot of work. The company immediately tweeted back that the interface was “simple”. I replied, “thanks!”.…
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The Zero-Cost Problem: Why SPAM Dominates Social Media (Including X)
For two decades, the economics of spam have remained unchanged. It costs nothing to send a thousand messages, a million mentions, or a billion impressions. On social media, where attention is currency and distribution is automated, this imbalance fuels the persistence of spam. Every fake account, bot-driven reply, and engagement farm thrives on one principle: when access costs zero, exploitation…
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How to Buy a Domain That’s Already Registered
You’ve been there… scratching down the new billion dollar idea on a cocktail napkin, then going home and finding out the domain is already taken. The other half continues to collect domain names waiting to make the billion dollars. Most of us are somewhere in between… domain owners who aren’t using their domains will typically sell them. And the entrepreneurs…
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Consumers Do Not Buy Perfection Anymore
One of the most wonderful transformations that I believe social media has brought about is the destruction of the perfect brand. No longer do consumers expect perfection… but we do expect honesty, customer service, and fulfillment of any promises a company set expectations for. In a client luncheon last week at Bitwise Solutions, President and CEO Ron Brumbarger told his…
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Making It to the Finish Line: Why the Last 10% Define Success
The margins in business are unforgiving. In many industries, they hover at just 2–5%. Moving the needle by even a single percentage point can be the difference between failure and growth. But what leaders often underestimate is that those gains are not made in the big ideas, the bold initiatives, or the early stages of execution. They are won or…
