The 6 Step Process for Measuring Social Media
(Happy Holidays! I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. This is #6. One of my most useful posts, and I really like using presentations as raw material for blog posts. Enjoy. – Jay) Can social media be […]
4 Nearly Guaranteed 2012 Social Media Predictions
The team at Awareness (who offer social media management software I like a lot), recently published a terrific, free ebook of 2012 social media predictions. It includes prognostications from 34 social media practitioners, including some of my favorite social media writers such as: David Berkowitz (whose MediaPost Social Media Insider columns you should be reading) […]
Now THIS is How You Do Video Marketing as a Brand
In the zeal to create “viral” videos using puppies, puppets, props, and Pow! most companies completely ignore the power of an inherently useful video, perfectly executed. Recently, global biosciences company Life Technologies (not a business category typically known for its cutting edge YouTube stylings) launched the quintessential useful video that has the best utilization of […]
Can You Stand Out and Brand Against the Machine
Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Excerpts from the interview. Watch video for the whole conversation) Jay: Hey everybody, it’s Jay Baer at Convince & Convert. I’m joined today by a very special guest, brand new author, gadfly, man-about-town, consistent wearer of black, John Morgan who is the author of […]
Should Your PR Firm Be Your Social Business Advisor
The folks at Edelman announced today that they have “Launched Social Business Planning to Help Organizations Create Business Value in a Connected World.” Amongst the big thinkers, social business is elbowing out social media as the business cause celebre. I even co-wrote a book called The NOW Revolution that is in part devoted to the […]
Social Business Is About Actions Not Words
Update: Southwest wrote about this blog post in their in-flight magazine a couple months later. Cool! I cried a little on a plane last week. It wasn’t due to a delay, an uncomfortable seat, or peanut salt getting in my eye. It was because I saw a shining example of “social business” at work in […]
Are You Passionate About Social Media, Or Obsessed?
Guest post by Marjorie Clayman, resident blogger at www.margieclayman.com. She works at Clayman Advertising, Inc., her family-owned full-service marketing firm. Passion or Obsession? No, I’m not talking Calvin Klein scents. Actually, I’m putting forth a question to you. Are you passionate about social media or are you obsessed with social media? “Passion” has become one of […]
The 6 Stages of Exposing Yourself with Content Marketing
In just 10 years we’ve moved from laggards pondering whether they even wanted a website, to a circumstance where “content marketing” and “corporate storytelling” are garnering serious budgetary resources. But have we let the pendulum swing too far? Is it always a net positive to create and give away content on behalf of your company? […]
Revealing the Secret That’s Limiting Your Potential
Within the realm of self help, Tony Robbins is U2. Known by all, beloved by many, but to some degree hamstrung by his own popularity and the accompanying expectations. Tim Ferris is Radiohead. Modern, quirky, and possessing a growing group of fans proclaiming him to be the best ever. Julien Smith is Elbow. Perhaps lesser […]
Marketing Automation for Everyone with Keap by Infusionsoft
We’ve known for more than a decade that relevancy drives email marketing results. Getting a message or offer that’s tailored to your needs and circumstances is much more likely to be effective than an unfocused, blanket email that’s sent to an entire database at the same time. This ability to customize email and send different […]
Permission is the Enemy of Speed
This week I’ve been writing about speed and response expectations for business on the social Web. Ultimately, speed wins. The companies that engage customers on Twitter and Facebook within minutes are making a none-too-subtle statement about their embrace of the social telephone and the primacy of the customer. In comparison, slow response or no response […]
Why Social Media Has Ruined Your Advantage
Yesterday, I wrote about real-time information and the death of news cycles. This of course creates considerable challenges for business, which typically is not yet architected for real-time communication (at least not in public). Speed matters. Requiring someone to pull off to the side in your drive-thru lane like a vehicular leper because you didn’t […]
We Know Faster, But Do We Know More?
We eat weird. This was the conclusion of a USA Today article last week that documented how rarely Americans eat a full meal at traditional regular breakfast, lunch, dinner time windows. In fact, just 5% of Americans eat three square meals a day. Evidently, whether it’s food or fact, calories or content, our consumption patterns […]
The Awesome Power of Family in Social Media Storytelling
In honor of Thanksgiving, I wanted to write a post about the power of family in social media storytelling. And as you sit down to whatever celebration you embrace, think about the videos below and what they evoke within you. But first, remember that the goal isn’t to be good at social media. The goal […]
How to Effectively Bottle Social Media and Product Integration
In addition to family, football, and fancy side dishes you’ll never see for another year, Thanksgiving brings an annual dilemma to the oenophile. What wine to serve for Thanksgiving is a tricky question, as the holiday table replete with savory and sweet options is an Ellis Island of tastes, making for a tough wine pairing. […]
Our Dangerous Addiction to Social Media Case Studies
The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote, when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel. Tom was referring to data-dredging […]