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Is Your Business Making Any of These Common Social Media Mistakes?
Since social media strategies continue to evolve, the analysis tools are improving, and I continue to be surprised by what works and what doesn’t work – I often don’t tell people they’re doing something wrong on social media. What may be a mistake on my timeline may be a great strategy on yours. It depends largely on what your audience…
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The Anatomy of Saving and Spending
As marketers, sometimes our biggest issue is getting over the purchase-decision hump. People don’t realize it, but there is a science to that event. While this infographic focuses on the view of the purchase decision of consumers, marketers should be focused on how they can help in the process through design, packaging, messaging and engagement. Observing abandoned shopping carts and…
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You Are Not Your User
If you are an expert in your business, you know more than almost anyone about what you do and about the details of your product. Your product, by the way, can be a service, a website, or a tangible good. Whatever constitutes your product, you can likely see your expertise and genius in every part of it. The problem is…
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Don’t forget online in your offline marketing!
Online consumer behavior is becoming invaluable to online marketers, but has been primarily missed with respect to offline entities. Many companies who have retail stores, as well as online stores, treat the two audiences separately, missing an excellent opportunity to target and track the other. Advanced analytics applications such as WebTrends, Coremetrics, and Omniture have largely been treated as reporting…
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4 Keys to Making Your Social Video Strategy a Success
We’ve shared a great infographic on the starter guide for social video, now here’s a great infographic from The Media Octopus on tips for leveraging social video for your brand. There has never been a better time for a brand to invest in creating and distributing content that causes people to laugh out loud, tingle with anticipation or feel the…
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The Secret of the Software Industry
It’s an exciting time to be in the software industry. With the dot com boom and bust, and now “web 2.0” and social networking in the mainstream, we’re still in our infancy but growing up. On a grade level, I’d say we’re probably around the 9th grade. We’re still uncomfortable in our skin, we get excited by the the software…
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Review Me! Blogging for Dollars
Sponsored Post: ReviewMe When PayPerPost and ReviewMe first popped up on, I was pretty disappointed. I really felt as though ‘blogging for dollars’ was going to take a turn for the worst. Tonight I noticed a few posts on other blogs that ReviewMe was actually utilizing their own system to pay bloggers to review themselves. It caught my attention so…
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Your Website is Not a Project
We’re in the midst of assisting a new client with a website redesign. Their current site appears to have been done quite a few years ago and appears that way. It’s fixed HTML with no responsiveness, a difficult URL structure, and no content management system behind it. At the time, the site was quite an undertaking and I’m quite sure…
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Who Owns Your Corporate Twitter Followers?
Pretty interesting account on the New York Times of how Phonedog is suing a previous employee to gain access to the Twitter followers on the account he set up as part of their social media outreach. By current employment standards in the country, I suppose PhoneDog is fully within their rights… the work you do on company time is typically…
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66% of Facebook Users LIKE the New Changes!
It’s not a scientific survey of any sort… just a SurveyMonkey online survey of readers and followers of Martech Zone. However, judging by the response, you folks like the changes that Facebook has implemented. There’s still a third of folks out there that were ticked off by such a drastic change. In my opinion, I think two things are happening…
