Josh S Peters

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Want social media success? Make it meaningful.

Josh S Peters

Have you ever seen someone say “Wow, look at that social media campaign. Look how amazing it is that they are pushing out their same old advertising crap and ignoring everyone. Would the Old Spice social media campaigns attracted any attention if they just consisted of “Here’s our crap, now buy it&# messaging?

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Want social media success? Make it meaningful.

Josh S Peters

Have you ever seen someone say “Wow, look at that social media campaign. Look how amazing it is that they are pushing out their same old advertising crap and ignoring everyone. Would the Old Spice social media campaigns attracted any attention if they just consisted of “Here’s our crap, now buy it&# messaging?

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 2 – Social Media

Josh S Peters

You hear and read a lot about branding and awareness being only for “social media hippies” or “confused gurus” but quite simply if no one knows who you are, or anything about you, they are not going to buy your product because they don’t even know you exist. They aim to inform with the hope to make sales.

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The GAP, ROI, and Awareness

Josh S Peters

Jacob Morgan (my co-author on TwittFaced and all around awesome guy) wrote a post about The Gap and ROI that first made me think he was describing what sounded like an Awareness campaign and tried to apply ROI to it due to a very unfortunate use of the term. 4 basic types of marketing campaigns 1.

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 5 – Paid Media’s Place

Josh S Peters

Anything you own, or at least have direct control over without having to pay an advertising or distribution fee, is considered owned. Often called “buzz” or “viral” it’s really just good old fashioned WOM (Word Of Mouth) and is often the result of well run paid and owned campaigns / channels.

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