Weapons of Influence: Motivate for Money

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Influence is the grease that makes your marketing work. Using the weapons of influence to market your brand is critical –  it motivates your network to share your message; it motivates folks to buy your products; it even impacts how people FEEL about your product.  As I was writing my book, Social Media Marketing: The [...]

6 Weapons of Influence in Social Media

A couple of weeks ago I discussed the first 3 weapons of influence and today I’d like to talk about the last 3 weapons of influence you should use to convert visitors to your social media platforms, encourage fans and followers to share your social media content, and build your community. As I’ve said before, [...]

Marketing, Influence, and Sustainability

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Sustainability is one of the hottest terms in business today.  According to Wikipedia, sustainability is: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs A couple of weeks ago, I attended a presentation by Robert Cialdini on sustainability research he’d conducted.  Bob works mainly [...]

Influence Makes Your Social Media Marketing Strategy Work

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Influence in social media is the grease that makes your social media marketing strategy work, but do you know how to effectively employ influence?

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Need Effective Marketing, Not Just Money

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Although finance and investing seem to be the darlings of federal efforts to spur innovation and entrepreneurship in the US, marketing deserves a seat at the table.

I Promise: A Marketing Strategy Tool

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As little kids, we learn about promises.  As a kid I learned the Brownie Promise: On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, To help people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law. But, almost as soon as we learned about promises, we learned to cross our [...]

Newsletters Build Influence: Generate Engagement and Sales

Why Isn’t Your Firm Using a Newsletter? With all the attention on social media, there’s a tendency to forget tried and true marketing strategies — like Newsletters.  Newsletters should support the rest of your online, email, and social media strategies.  Let’s take a look at why your firm should be using a newsletter, at least [...]

Building Social Capital To Convert Your Social Media Connections

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Motivating Consumers to Spread Your Message In traditional media, TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines … all got paid to carry your message.  So, when you wanted to offer a coupon to get customers to buy that overstock of frozen peas that are taking up space in your freezer case, you contacted them, paid them [...]

How To Monitor Social Media Strategy: Analytics

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So, you’ve got your social media marketing strategy in place and have started working on posts and updates and doing all the things outlined in your social media marketing strategy plan.  You’re busy engaging customers, writing great content, and sharing across multiple social platforms, but nothing seems to be happening to your bottom line !  [...]

Branding, PIVOT, and Paid PR

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Brand Awareness I have a question from a linkedin connection: “what is the best way to create brand awareness for loyalty programs?” Nancy Loderick I say it would depend on the buyer persona for the loyalty programs. Where are the customers/prospects? Are they online? Where online? Depending on where these folks are, I would focus [...]

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