Why It Might Be Time to Completely Change Your Social Media Strategy
Reliable reach is a unicorn in social media. Businesses must now shift their social media strategy and build a touchpoint corral around their customers, says Jay Baer.
6 Skills You Need to Be a Social Media Professional
When Amber Naslund and I wrote The NOW Revolution in 2010, we created this graphic to describe the characteristics of the ideal community manager/social media practitioner. Since then, social media – and the skills needed to succeed in it – has changed substantially. Certainly, some of the characteristics we noted remain very much a requirement. […]
Social Circles – Use Social Media to Build a Touchpoint Corral
There are very few sure things in social and email marketing… The open rate for email is 25% on average. The reach of a Facebook post (without paying to promote it) is approximately 5% – 15%. The reach of a tweet is almost impossible to determine. If you buy promoted tweets, you’ll receive impressions data […]
Don’t Let Thumbs Dominate Mobile Marketing
I don’t mean to scare you or create undue cause for alarm, but there are enemies in our midst. Enemies that operate with such stealth that we fail to see the power they wield over the majority of our marketing efforts today. Enemies so cunning they have convinced us that they’re on our side–like Nationwide. […]
The Power of Brand
As a recovering attorney who dabbled in trademark law back in the day, I have long respected the power of brand. Brand cuts through clutter. It transforms the mundane into the emotional. It raises expectations. The best brand stewards understand that they aren’t responsible for protecting mere words, symbols, and sounds. They’re responsible for delivering […]
100% of Marketing Stats Are Made of Numbers
Guest post by Jeff Rohrs VP of Marketing Research and Education at ExactTarget. Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. Jay Baer has made a terrible mistake. He has gone on vacation and invited me to guest blog again. After my critically-acclaimed & Tony-award nominated post last year—“3 Reasons […]
3 Reasons Email is the Coolest Vampire Today
Guest post by Jeff Rohrs, who heads up the Marketing Research & Education Team at ExactTarget. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! philosophy, Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. He lives in Cleveland and has not, to his knowledge, ever been bitten by a vampire—although he […]