Tag Archives: marketing

Problems With Social Metrics

Image via Wikipedia A while ago, I wrote a blog post on 5 ways to mea­sure suc­cess with social media mar­ket­ing. Today I ran across a great real-​​​​world exam­ple of the dif­fi­cul­ties mar­keters have when set­ting up and mea­sur­ing mean­ing­ful met­rics in social mar­ket­ing from Aliza Sher­man at Web Worker Daily. I agree whole­heart­edly with Aliza Sher­man’s point that we

Location-​​Based Mobile Marketing’s Value Chain

Location-​​​​based ser­vices are all the rage lately, what with the tech­nol­ogy finally catch­ing up to this long-​​​​cherished and valu­able ser­vice. Ever won­der about the value-​​​​chain of location-​​​​based ser­vices ? What are the suc­cess­ful busi­ness mod­els and pay­ment schemes for location-​​​​based ser­vices? What are the trends for the mobile loca­tion ser­vices mar­ket? I found a rather pricey, but

Mommy Blogging, Mompreneurs, and Multi-​​Cultural Women: The New Social Media Darlings

For the past year, I’ve been asked to speak at a num­ber of inter­net mar­ket­ing con­fer­ences. Image via Wikipedia That, in itself, is not odd since I’ve been speak­ing at web con­fer­ences since 2002. What has been dif­fer­ent this time is the types of con­fer­ences I’ve been asked to speak at lately. They’ve all been con­fer­ences

Twitter Getting CxO Buy In, Thanks To @Zappos

Great post on the rise of CEO/​​CMOs using Twit­ter: Twit­ter is yet another exam­ple of where brands have to accept a loss of control.

Can Personal Brands on Social Media Stay Personal?

The con­cept of employees/​​etc. pro­mot­ing them­selves as a per­sonal brand has been a much-​​​​debated topic in social media net­works for months. As an inde­pen­dent con­sul­tant, I’ve vac­il­lated between the value of each indi­vid­ual in an orga­ni­za­tion devel­op­ing a thriv­ing personal brand,

Choose Your Social Media Consultant With Care

Geoff Liv­ingston posted a great list of 25 ways to know whether you’ve got a strong Social Media Con­sul­tant or Agency. This was in response to the recent influx of “social media experts” enter­ing the space who are clearly unqual­i­fied and can cause more harm than good to your busi­ness. Some salient points for Marketing/​​Communications Man­agers to