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    Social Media: Time Sink?

    It should come as no surprise; the biggest cost of social media is time. And how to gauge how much to invest? Or how to get what you want with minimal time invested?

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    What Do You Know About Gamification?

    What the heck is gamification? A little in the dark? That word not in your daily vocab? Here are some tips:

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    Social Media’s Change Challenge

    I’ve had the pleasure in recent months of co-founding a series of workshops for the greater good; non-profits and social causes, taught hands-on digital marketing strategies for growth! The Change Challenge is this great Fall monthly series at GSU, and we’ve poured a lot into it to really help the non-profits and volunteers on board. In fact the first workshop is tomorrow morning and I’m currently having fun planning my lecture – on something sorely lacking in social media marketing today – objectives and strategic content alignment. So here’s a sneak peek…

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    If Content is King, Process is Prince

    “Content is king,” or so we hear. And talk of social media strategy and SEO plans today merge with “content strategy.” Although still infantile, such talk is not unheard of – seminars and blogs cover these topics more and more. Businesses admit that consumers are in social media and search engines and so the question becomes how to be there for them. I believe there still needs to be much more strategic alignment between objectives and digital channels, but at least the questions are starting to be raised. And of course there is a chicken and egg conundrum here – what good is strategic vision and talk if there’s no knowledge of how to reliably execute anyway…

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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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