Tara Hunt, author of The Power of Social Networking: Using the Whuffie Factor to Build Your Business, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the borderless world of the social web, monetizing Twitter, and why she unfriended her boyfriend on Pinterest. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the full [...]
Targeted Content: The Holy Grail of Content Marketing
For any piece of content to be successful, it has to be personalized and speak to a specific person (a potential buyer), with a specific need, at a specific point in his or her buyer journey. Put another way, you have to have targeted content that reflects a deep understanding of who your audience and [...]
Don’t Settle For Social Stats, Get Customer Insights
Lisa Joy Rosner, CMO of Netbase, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss using social chatter data and insight to understand more about your customers, and as a result, more about your business. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the full podcast. Listen Now Click the play button to [...]
Are You a Marketing Cheater? The Continued Gamification of Attention
We are addicted to shortcuts. Regardless of the structure and rules of the contest at hand, some among us will stretch the boundaries seeking an edge over our opponent. Perhaps this is just human nature, or maybe it’s more prevalent in America where we cherish our opportunity to have a strong role in our personal [...]
4 Social Media Controversies Solved
One of my favorite new projects is The Baer Facts, a short weekly video I’m producing with my friends at ExactTarget(a long-time client and provider of amazing interactive marketing software). My pal Kyle Lacy heads up content marketing for the company, and he and I are doing a short video rant that each week targets [...]
How to Mitigate Social Media Disasters
This week on the Social Pros Podcast, Jay Baer and Eric Boggs take over when the scheduled guest has to cancel last minute so she can address a social media crisis in her own company. They discuss crisis management and mitigating disasters in social media with several fascinating case studies. Read on for some of the [...]
Are You Getting Better or Just Getting Busier?
In a remarkable interview in the recent Esquire magazine, Teller (of the famous magic duo, Penn & Teller) reveals his practice routine to master a new trick he has developed called the Red Ball (whereby a ball appears to roll all over the stage, moved by the mind). Writes journalist Chris Jones, “He practiced at [...]
Why You Need to Market Your Marketing
You know what happens when the vast majority of mobile applications or any sort of useful content gets launched by a company? Nothing happens. Nothing. This is because companies treat the fact that they finished the content execution as the end game. We finished our mobile application and it showed up in the iTunes App [...]
New Research: Social Media ROI is Still a Challenge for 57%
Social marketing software company Awareness released the second part of its bi-annual State of Social Media Marketing report for 2012, and there are a few surprising key points that brands and marketers should be aware of. The study surveyed 469 marketers from a variety of industries, expertise and verticals, the report looks at how businesses [...]
Has Social Media Made Your Sales Team Obsolete?
Maybe it’s true that “video killed the radio star”, but has social media snuck up and killed the salesman behind our backs? Jim Farley, VP of Global Marketing & Sales for Ford Motors seems to think that on some level, social media has killed the sales person as we know him (or her). Here’s what he [...]
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