Business

Four Top Social Media Objectives & KPIs

What’s social media strategy? And how can it truly be measured? – Major and common questions in the new frontier today. Luckily both these questions can and should be addressed simultaneously in upfront planning. If one knows what to do, social media can provide noticeable ROI thanks to alignment with strategic objectives and monitoring…

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Driving the Marketing Wheel & Spoke…

I have a philosophy that’s fairly simple – it’s that sooner or later, marketing tactics (both off- and online) drive to a website or landing page (or increasingly a Facebook page). Of course it fits consumer behavior as products and brands are increasingly researched in preferred online environments (important to note that Facebook is the number one site for time spent online, surpassing Google). So the idea is just to fully realize all this upfront and plan for it…

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How is your ‘Cognitive Surplus’?

I’ve been enjoying Clay Shirky’s thought-provoking novel Cognitive Surplus, about how social media has transformed our hobbies, our work, our economy and lives. Shirky claims that social media creates the first fundamental change in media economics since Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century…

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Why Web 2.0 Changes Total Business Approach

In research and preparation for my GSU Social Media Marketing course, I find traits of commonality are easy to see across platforms, genres and generations in business today, easily leading us to chicken-and-egg arguments. For example, are Millennials and Gen Ys egalitarian and team-based in approach because that is the way they were raised? Or is it because the groundswell Web 2.0 technologies they have embraced (and exploded in consumption and growth) empowered them to approach life this way…

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The Millennial Social Disposition

So much of what I’ve read about our varied generational cohorts points to the unique attributes of the Millennial generation (current children through college students; some sociologists claim through late 20s). Millennials for example can embrace the transparency of social media today without fear (of identity theft, security, etc.)…

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