Posts Tagged ‘social media marketing’

Social Media or Social Media Marketing? At Which are You Better?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

There is a BIG difference.

As a lot of my friends know that several weeks ago I was in a shoe shopping mood. I put it out on Facebook for some suggestions of where to go, knowing all along where I was most likely to go, but still wanted to see what people would suggest. Here’s how it went:

Retailer #1- I spent 15 minutes trying to find someone to offer assistance. The only employees to be found were behind checkout counter with a long line. I left frustrated.

Retailer #2- I walked into a store that looked like hell’s storage room (or my teenage son’s bedroom) with deep piles of shoes that hadn’t been restocked, used footies, etc. I left disgusted.

Retailer #3- I finally went to Nordstrom at SouthPark Mall. As always, the store was clean and well staffed. I got attention and helpful assistance from a sales associate and guess what— I bought shoes.

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The myth of the great ad

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Top secret
Photo by daliborlev
You can do a great job constructing a badly designed house. But when you are through, you’ve still got a badly designed house. Right? It doesn’t matter how good you are with a hammer if the blueprints themselves are faulty. Ads are like houses.

It doesn’t matter how good you are with nouns or verbs when the core message is boring. There is no good way to tell a bad story. And ultimately, it’s the core message of your campaign that determines the success of your advertising.

Give a powerful core message to an average writer and the little business on the corner can leap from Main Street to Wall Street. But give an average message to a powerful writer and ….yeah, you get it.

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“One”derful is wonderful!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

wonderfulAs I drove back from Charleston, SC yesterday, after two glorious days at the beach, I had two things going on in my mind. The first, because I was listening to the soundtrack of the Broadway show “Wicked,” was the song “Wonderful.” If you’re not familiar with it, it is sung by the character, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and is about his descent into the world of Oz (via his hot air balloon), how he was really a nobody but the citizens of Oz thought him “wonderful” and they called him “wonderful” and it was “wonderful” and soon his name became “wonderful.”

My second thought, which had been fueling me for a few days, was about “engagement.” No…not in the marital sense, in the “social media sense,” since that was to be the next topic on this blog. I’m pretty sure that the word “engagement” is going to become like the words “solution” or “brand” if it hasn’t already—overused and generally misunderstood. But that’s another topic for another day.

Engagement is not a fad. It’s the new customer imperative—it is establishing a relationship with your customer—which frankly, is fairly easy given all the tools available to do so today. (more…)

Integrated Marketing

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

As marketers, we need ensure that we are doing everything we possible can to reach these consumers at a time when they are interested in our value proposition. This means that our message has to be where the consumers are looking all the time.

MarketingPerformance.net

The progression of marketing – moving beyond traditional to include interactive, consumer driven, social marketing has spread like MySpace users.

Our customers are ushering in a new era in which marketers blend communication messages across all available media channels into a continuous brand experience. As part of a successful integrated marketing strategy, Marketing Performance integrates public relations, advertising, online, social media, etc; and other communications elements into one cohesive entity all sharing the same message.

Many organizations today are now embracing this concept of integrated marketing. Instead of dividing marketing communications into separate groups that rarely communicate; organizations are now integrating all marketing disciplines under one umbrella; thus, making every communication consistent with one message, sharing the same strategy. This also allows marketers to execute marketing campaigns more efficiently without having to jump through hoops to get approvals for creative, content, messaging, etc. (more…)

Web Users Shaping Consumer Opinion

Monday, March 9th, 2009

According to a new report from Netpop Research, “Media Shifts to Social,” the percent of time people spend communicating online has increased 18% since 2006, while time spent on entertainment has declined 29%. The Executive Summary says that Online entertainment is shifting to a small, powerful proportion of social media contributors fueling Web activity through blogs micro-blogs, social media, video and photo sharing.

Key Findings from the study include data such as: (more…)