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Social Media Experts Exposed
Social media is no longer a buzz word. Brands are getting smart and hiring qualified people to manage and execute social media programs; and self proclaimed experts will continue to blog, tweet and facebook themselves into oblivion. This post by John Moore sums up my thoughts quite well on this subject; if you can’t deliver… →
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How to Improve Your Brand “Experience”
What is a brand? Depending on who you ask, the answer may vary. A web design company may tell you that a brand is your logo and website. Others may say it is the adjectives a customer or potential customers use to describe your product or service. A brand is all of these things and… →
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2010 – Nielsen Predicts
As 2009 comes to a close, everyone reflects on trends from the year, and start making predictions on where we’re headed next year. Nielsen just released it’s 2009 wrap-up, and its projections for the top advertising trends for 2010. In 2009, budgets were slashed, social media networks and UCG (or user generated content) began to… →
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Superficial Networking Doesn’t Count For Anything
Be authentic! Be real! Be transparent! Marketing people have been shouting these buzz words since the beginning of ‘Social Media and Web 2.0’. We say it about your blogs, your posts, your websites – your online presence. But we forget to mention that you should also remember this when it comes to networking. One of… →
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10 Tools To Help You Track and Perform Better on Twitter
I love data! If I wasn’t a marketing strategist, I’d be a marketing analyst for sure. Here are some great Twitter tools to analyze all that Twitter data. It might not make your content any better (sorry, only YOU can improve your content), but it might make you manage your Twitter account perform a little… →
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Red Balloons, $40,000 and MIT Smarts
In case you were wondering who won the $40K I mentioned in my previous post, here are the results as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald. The winners set up an information gathering pyramid. Each balloon was allotted $4000. The first person to spot one would be awarded $2000, with smaller payments down the information… →