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Marketing Quick Reads: Social Media

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  • Enjoy Some Good Holiday CheeseSocial Media
    As the goblins and ghouls out there munch away on their Halloween bounty, fond memories arise of one apparition we saw a lot of this season—the Monster Mash JibJab "sendable." The ...
  • Polish Your Brand With Co-CreationCustomer Insight
    "A revolution in both marketing thought and practice is at hand," say three researchers in an interesting new report on brand marketing. In their research, these authors examined "consumer co-creation in ...
  • Mind the Big Three Be'sMobile Marketing
    Fun fact: Only 13% of the mobile market has an iPhone. That sounds like plenty when you consider how long the phone's been available, but it merits remembering that the ...
  • You Lie!Marketing Inspiration
    A recent viral video opens on a pretty blonde, who sits at her desk while cradling an infant son. "Hi, my name is Karen and I'm from Denmark," she says. ...
  • Teaching an Old Brand New TricksSocial Media
    Good news: You don't have to lose sight of your brand's tried-and-true persona to participate in the quest for deeper engagement at the new social sites. Just think of the ...
  • Yes, It's Viral, but I'm not AfraidB2B Marketing
    This time of year, the word "viral" strikes fear in the best of us. Images of flu viruses ready to attack spring to mind. (Shudder.) But that word holds a scary ...
  • No Escapin' ThisSmall Business
    Ask 100 people for their opinion of social-media tools like Twitter and you'll likely get 100 different responses—ranging from extreme enthusiasm to extreme derision. However you feel about social media, ...
  • What Would We Do Without You?Mobile Marketing
    You've probably heard a lot that the days of "push" messaging—a mythical golden age when marketers could feed passive viewers whatever rigmarole the ad department pleased—are dead. So true. But for ...
  • You Don't Drive Me Nuts Anymore!Social Media
    What makes Twitter so useful is also what makes it difficult to navigate: everyone is spewing what they think, all the time, about anything imaginable. This is good for tracking ...
  • Tell Them a StoryCustomer Insight
    A recent post at Bazaarblog touts the power of customer outreach through story-telling. The blog offers an inspired effort by CVS Caremark as an example. The CVS outreach campaign ...
  • No ExcusesMarketing Analytics
    "One of the ultimate excuses for not measuring [the impact of marketing efforts] is: 'Oh, that's just a branding campaign,'" says Avinash Kaushik in a post at the Occam's Razor ...
  • They Like Us! They Really Like Us!Social Media
    Research coming out of Penn State reports that 20% of tweets—those wee messages published on Twitter—are brand-oriented. And not the way you'd naturally expect. While researchers originally thought they'd find ...
  • LinkedOutSmall Business
    Not long ago, Elaine Fogel used a post at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog to discuss her case of "Social Media Rejection Syndrome." It all began when someone not only ...
  • Expand Your Local HorizonsSearch Engine Marketing
    For the small-business owner, getting your name out via local search is a must. And to many marketers, that means optimizing for Google's universal results. After all, Google is the ...
  • It's a Secret (Wink, Wink)Marketing Inspiration
    According to The Wrap, ABC has chosen an unorthodox way to promote a new comedy on its fall schedule—by keeping it hush-hush. "The network is offering the sneak peak of ...
  • Don't You Dare Dis My Babble!Social Media
    This summer, Pear Analytics released a study that got plenty of play in the Twitter/blogosphere. According to the Pear research, 40.5 percent of the messages published on social-media-darling Twitter are ...
  • Searchers to Subscribers to FansSearch Engine Marketing
    "If you're interested in building a flourishing online brand and website that generates links and traffic organically as part of your Internet marketing efforts, it's important to develop an active ...
  • We'll Have a Gay Old TimeMarketing Inspiration
    We've seen Sarah Haskins critique advertising that patronizes women, and now it's time for Bryan Safi's take on commercials that handle gay topics with varying degrees of respect. In this ...
  • Monetize ThisMarketing Inspiration
    "We were looking at all the conferences coming up," says Guy Kawasaki at the beginning of a video from the Revenue Bootcamp conference, "and everything was about social media and ...
  • I Get SentimentalMarketing Analytics
    "The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression," writes Alex Wright in a recent ...
  • Your Husband: Slightly Dumber Than a DogMarketing Inspiration
    Comedian Sarah Haskins is back with another Target Women video at Current TV that skewers gender-based advertising clichés—this time it's the Doofy Husband. "Being a woman isn't easy," she says ...
  • Fist-Bump Your Card-Stack Into OblivionSocial Media
    The sun is setting on the tyranny of business cards—that stack of stiffs that seems important as you add to it again and again, but which you never really get the ...
  • Turn That Follower Into a RetweeterSmall Business
    "When you first start playing in the social media sandbox, you feel compelled to collect," says Mark Goren in a post at the Daily Fix blog. "Subscribers. Followers. Friends. The ...
  • Viral, ShpiralSmall Business
    You've almost certainly seen, or heard about, the YouTube video of a Minnesota wedding in which the bride, groom and their attendants dance and tumble down the aisle to Chris ...
  • You Broke It, You Fix ItMarketing Inspiration
    "While Dave Carroll was flying from Nova Scotia to Nebraska he had his Taylor guitar ruined," says the Huffington Post. "After a protracted attempt to get United to pay for ...

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