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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Celebrity Endorsement Tweets are Here!
Do celebrity endorsements work? Yes, they do. Otherwise, we wouldn’t see advertisements with celebrities every day, would we? Catherine Zeta-Jones’ endorsement deal with T-Mobile was reportedly worth 20 Million. Subsequently, T-Mobile’s national sales jumped 25% during the campaign. Celebrity endorsements are now on Twitter, too! Why does celebrity advertising work? Celebrity advertising works on 3 different levels: Familiarity – we…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Social Media Equity and Return on Investment
Gary Vaynerchuck is fast becoming one social media evangelist that I always stop to listen to, follow, and agree with. Bryan Elliott recently interviewed Gary in a two part series that I would encourage every business-owner… from small to CEO… to listen to. One point in the interview struck me – and I’m not sure that there was enough emphasis…
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Analytics & Testing
GoSquared: Real-Time Analytics and Data
If you haven’t heard of GoSquared, it’s already running on over 30,000 websites! GoSquared markets itself as the simplest, easiest to use analytics ever. Not only do they aim to take visualization of analytics data to the next level, the data itself is all yours via their robust API. GoSquared aims to provide you with everything you need in an…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Social versus Search Smackdown
I think MDG Advertising was trying to make some of us throw a gasket when we read the title of this infographic video they put together, Social vs Search Smackdown: A Battle of Internet Marketing Titans. But, alas, they come to their senses by the end of the video. When we started our agency, the industry was littered with specialty…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Many Faces are in Your Latest Email?
I get over 100 relevant emails a day… I know that’s a bit disturbing. It’s especially disturbing when the email really isn’t that relevant. Such is the case with these LinkedIn emails that tell me about the folks in my network that have changed job titles. I can’t help but scan through the faces and click-through to check out what’s…
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Marketing Infographics
Architects and B2B Tweeting
Those business to business (B2B) folks aren’t always at the top of the marketing research news, but every once in a while you find a gem. Although this specific Infographic from Pauley Creative focuses on a survey of UK Architects, I believe the findings could open up other B2B companies to seeing how the medium can be advantageous to their…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Marketing is about the Social, Not the Media
Social media platforms are tools. Social media platforms are software. There are other tools and software out there. There will be better tools around the corner. Twitter doesn’t matter. Facebook doesn’t matter. LinkedIn doesn’t matter. Blogs don’t matter. They all just help us get a little closer to what we really want. What we really want is the truth. What…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
West vs Midwest Round II
PREAMBLE Last week, I was on a panel at The Combine – 2010 called Go West: Former Midwesterners that have moved to the Silicon Valley share their stories. I was one of four people discussing our personal stories and it set off a firestorm on Twitter and went Cat 4 when Douglas Karr posted his reactions when he recapped the Combine 2010 here.…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
MC Hammer 2.0 and Personal Branding
If you wanted to research a celebrity who has been able to re-energize their career through social media, my first example would be MC Hammer. Everyone has seen the Behind the Music and rise and fall of MC Hammer as a pop icon. MC Hammer has effectively utilized social media to re-insert himself into modern culture again. If you’ve been…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Where is Email Communications Headed?
I have fallen into a rather nasty habit of putting some emails aside for action for a month or more. I have a triage system for incoming emails. If they don’t require my immediate attention or action within a period of time to avoid pain of some sort, I just let them sit. Maybe that’s a bad thing. Or maybe…