Dorie Clark, Forbes contributor and author of Reinventing You, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss avoiding being pigeonholed in your current job, how to make a career change organically that will make sense, and accurately representing yourself in your personal brand. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to [...]
Are Social Causes a One Click Pony?
In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about thousands of Facebook and Twitter users temporarily changing their avatars in support of marriage equality, currently being debated by the United States Supreme Court. If an Avatar Falls in the Forest… It is admirable – and remarkable – when causes [...]
Solving Klout’s “Warren Buffett Problem”
Matt Thomson, VP of Business Development at Klout, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the “Warren Buffett problem” his company faces, those fancy analytics at work behind the Klout algorithms, and expanding to offer brands a whole new product. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. [...]
Bloggers Unite! A 10-Point Guide for Blogger Collaboration
Web marketing isn’t a solo endeavor. In fact, the entire goal is connectedness: businesses to prospects, brands to brand advocates, people to people. If you have a blog, you can start connecting from the very beginning. Here’s a blogger collaboration guide to get you started: Note: If you’re already doing some blogger collaboration, check your [...]
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 [...]
5 Reasons Linkedin is Boring in a Good Way
Anthony Juliano is the Vice President of Marketing and Social Media Strategy at Asher Agency, a Midwest-based marketing strategy firm. Anthony speaks and writes about a variety of social media and marketing topics, with a specific focus on LinkedIn. Connect with him at AnthonyJuliano.com. LinkedIn has a reputation for being… well, a little dorky. In [...]
Social Media, Pretend Friends, and the Lie of False Intimacy
It’s not an illusion. We really are doing more with each 24 hours, as technology enables (or forces) us to interact and intersect and do and consume with unprecedented volume and vigor. We live our lives at breakneck speed because we can, because we feel we have to keep up, and because every macro and [...]
The 3 Keys to Social Influence
This is an interview I did with Klout for their Klout Stars series, where they ask “influencers” about their background in social media. 1. How did you get started in social media? I was originally a political consultant, helping manage campaigns for Governor, U.S. Senate, and President. I moved out of that industry into digital [...]
Popularity and Reciprocity are the Enemies of Connectivity
As I spend increasing amounts of time playing with Google Plus (see my analysis of it here), I’ve come to recognize that the success of social networking eventually brings about its demise. Twitter originally felt a lot like Google + does today, where you recognized most of the people in your stream, interactions were more [...]
Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School
Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer. [...]
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