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Don’t Make Me Like You

Facebook is a large part of many marketing campaigns which truly is no surprise. People who are on Facebook are engaged and like to interact with friends, family and even brands. However, while as a marketer I understand the marketing tactics involved such as using the Like as a gatekeeper, as a user I truly [...]

Is Social Media Hurting Your Marketing Efforts?

Just like a shiny new toy, social media marketing is the hot new thing. But as I wrote about in Is Social Media Right for Your Business?,  it isn’t for everyone and can actually do more harm than good. Last month I received this email: The email is nice and clean and with a direct call [...]

Anti-Networking

Image by ExecGifts via Flickr Recently I went to a tweetup and caught up with some friends as well as met a lot of new people. As is often the case at tweetups, you have two distinct groups. I think of one as the friendlies, and the other as the card exchangers. Both are about [...]

What Opportunities are You Overlooking?

Twitter is often cited as a great new marketing tool that truly brings one-to-one marketing to the forefront. But truly, what good is this tool if you don’t really use it? A few months ago I was looking into getting a new cellular phone, and as there were so many fantastic new options, I really [...]

Think You Can Automate Your Marketing?

With the growth of social media, many companies want to get involved, but don’t really want to divert resources to these untested areas.  Often, companies set them up and forget about it, or they try to keep it active by passively automating it.  After all, why should you pay for someone to manage your social [...]

Is Social Media Right for Your Business?

Right now, there’s a lot of talk about social media. How great it is and how much it’s changing everything from how we interact to how we do business. It’s true, social media is impacting everything from the way we communicate to the way we do business. But, this doesn’t mean it’s the right strategic [...]

Analyzing Yahoo’s Know Your Mojo

To promote their new homepage, Yahoo has released a fun little flash site that analyzes your public tweets and tells you what kind of tweeter you are.  Whether or not it’s accurate it is up to debate, but it is some simple fun. You can check it out here. While this has the potential to [...]