Social Marketing: When Will it be Business as Usual?

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Social Marketing has come a long way since the advent of social media. In addition, forward leaning companies excited for the potential quickly adapted to the “new fangled” ways of engaging the audience. Blogs, micro blogs, podcasting, aggregation have all, to one degree or another, found acceptance in “business as usual.” Sadly, I am still [...]

Social Marketing: Must it Show a Dollars Based Profit?

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Social Marketing I had an interesting conversation with Mack Collier and Gigi Peterkin over at Mack’s site the other day. Mack had posted a topic that got me thinking “Should Marketers Use Social Media Personally Before They Use it Professionally?” It evolved into a discussion orbiting whether or not a company’s c-suite seemed more believable [...]

Social Marketing and the Wreckage of Old Strategies

Social Marketing with Google+ and You (Aff Link) I have just finished reading Chris Brogan‘s Book “Google+ for Business.” If you are running a business, I highly recommend this book to understand how you can leverage Google+ to build lasting relationships with your customer base. Chris makes a smart argument that social marketing is not [...]