Tag Archives: Social Media

How Connected Is Your Brand Community?

Imag­ine the scene. You’re a woman who has heard great things about a new bou­tique tar­geted to women just like you. You steal away some time from work to go there. The minute you enter the bou­tique, you’re in heaven!

You hear kind & lov­ing voices on the bou­tique stereo speak­ers. Video from the CEO is play­ing telling

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.

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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 directed at

Secret Ways Bands Use Social Media to Develop A Following

Recently I was inter­viewed by an amaz­ing writer for www.Examiner.com on Social Media for bands. The arti­cle picked up some speed and got picked up by Asso­ci­ated Content.

Image by DbryJ Music via Flickr

In it, I share some of the best secrets I’ve learned about how bands are using social media to pro­mote their tours and music.
If you have

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.
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Real-​​Time Twitter Monitoring

Quick! What are peo­ple say­ing right now about your brand? Impos­si­ble to know, you say? Nah, not at all. Enter Side­line, “a Twit­ter app that lets you mon­i­tor and search what peo­ple are say­ing about your prod­uct in real time”.
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The Future of PR — Really?

I found this fas­ci­nat­ing quote today:
There’s an inter­est­ing topic being dis­cussed over on Web-​​​​Strategist.  Once again, Jere­miah Owyang chal­lenges us to think of a new par­a­digm that could change the way com­pa­nies relate and react to their cus­tomers. 
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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 con­sider