I have to admit, I was a little late in recognizing Instagram as an effective marketing tool. I kept hearing about it from the 20 and 30-somethings in my circles, but as far as I could tell it was nothing more than a picture sharing space. How wrong I was. Instagram is growing by leaps […]
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Tag: social media strategy
Demand Generation Using Social Media
First let me say that I don’t use the terms “lead generation” and “demand generation” interchangeably as I hear many people doing. I define “lead generation” as the steps taken to build a marketing database for follow up. This often takes the form of registration in exchange for information. I define “demand generation” as creating […]
Three Reasons to Use Social Media
I recently took a position with a company that is a little behind the times when it comes to their marketing. I found out how behind the times when I suggested to my boss that we implement a social media strategy. His response: “What’s social media?”I knew in that moment I had my work cut […]
Find Your Online Voice
It’s not what you say. It’s how you say it. If you’ve ever taken any writing classes, you’ll hear that repeatedly. Instructors will talk about tone and voice to convey certain feelings and create certain reactions. If you’ve spent any time at all on social media sites, you’ll recognize there are a lot of different […]
Why Nonprofits Need Social Media Strategy
When you think about it, nonprofits have been using social marketing for decades to get their message across. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “grass roots campaign”. What is that but a pre-social media era social marketing effort. It seems to me that the natural evolution of the social marketing strategy is the social media […]
Push vs. Pull Marketing
There are a variety of marketing strategies available for you to implement but all of them fall within two categories. They are either push or pull marketing. I actually had someone say, recently, that push marketing is dead due to the surge in media marketing. I don’t think they’ve turned their TV on recently. In […]
QR Codes: What the Heck?
You’ve seen them. You might not know what they do, or what they can be used for, but you’ve seen them. They’re invading magazine ads, trade show booths, POP displays, maps and any number of other locations. They’re those little black and white (usually) pixel boxes that tease you into wondering what the heck is […]
Using Social Media
This morning I caught up on the fiasco that is ChapStick’s response to negative comments posted on their Facebook page. Apparently they didn’t have any steps in place, other than “delete them,” to handle negative commentary – a large hole in their social media strategy. There is a way to handle negative posts but ignoring […]
Developing a Social Media Strategy
The brand tenets of the past such as control and predictability are no longer valid. Ever-increasing consumer power driven by social media and wireless technologies is having a significant impact on brand effectiveness and staying power. Consumers, more than ever before, are key drivers for brand strategy. We, as brand managers, need to understand how […]