9 Tips for Crafting a Killer Facebook Post

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Facebook Posts It’s really hard to ignore Facebook in your social media marketing strategy. With over 1 Billion users spending over 10 BILLION minutes per day on Facebook – a whopping 12 1/2 minute per users. But, do you know how to optimize your Facebook ROI by crafting a killer Facebook post? Well, here’s your [...]

Perceptual Mapping: Beyond the Basics

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I get lots of comments and questions about an old post on perceptual mapping. I think this is great. It means folks are using these predictive analytics to optimize their business. But, it makes me realize there’s a lot I left out of that original post on perceptual mapping. So, here’s the continuation of that [...]

5 Ways to Make Sure Your Marketing Is LOVEABLE

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Interesting graphic today from HubSpot on how marketing is loveable.  I’m not sure when marketing became a 4 letter word, but I agree marketing spruced up its image with the rise of social media. Of course, understand that only a small fraction of most company’s marketing spend is for social media — and much of [...]

The 5 Deadly Sins of Marketing

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Actually, this post comes from a question I was asked last night at a startup event in DC – What are the TOP 5 Marketing Mistakes companies make? This is an absolutely fabulous question, so I thought I’d share my answer with your today.  Whether you’re using social media marketing strategies or traditional marketing strategies, [...]

SEO, Free WordPress Blog, and Tynt: Ask a Marketing Expert

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Great Session of Ask a Marketing Expert on Friday. Topics included Tynt, an anti-plagarism tool, SEO, and how using a free blog hosting can cost you.

New Facebook Questions: Boost Your Engagement

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Facebook has made some great changes over the last week or so — and these should give your social media marketing a great boost.  The first change is the Facebook Questions App and the second Facebook change involves new  editing features. New Facebook Questions App Facebook questions give businesses the opportunity to ask their fans [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Business Marketing is SPAM

social media is just one tactic for getting your message to your audience – your target market. Other tactics include traditional media, non-digital word of mouth, and promotion. But, that also leaves the 3 other P’s — product, pricing, and place (distribution).

Happy New Year: Social Media Style

How has social media affected the holidays?

Here are some of the changes social media brought to my holidays this year. Feel free to add some of your own.

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