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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

Trends in consumer marketing are showing that consumers want less advertising and more interaction. Facebook Exchange (FBX) is an advertising service that allows brands to serve targeted ads based on interactions on Facebook. What's in question is how users will react to it. An interesting pairing of articles from Inc.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help. Apple is never about the customer but their own bottom line and not begin engaged with the customers about issues through social media shows this even further. But I don’t consider it smart to try to convert new buyers.

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How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Yes it shows the impact that social media can have on a business, but possibly more important, it shows how social media has changed the advertising and marketing game all together. For more than 50 years marketing and advertising has been ran by the big guns on Madison Avenue. They set the trends for the industry.

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you’re looking at buying a product or utilizing a service, chances are you’re looking for the sentiment about that product or service as well. That’s why social media is important. Great content, #2, works across the board for social media. I hope that doesn’t detract you from buying the book!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

More people were reached using one advert or one advertising channel. Again, this was not new – the British Empire enabled inter-continental trade centuries earlier – but the mechanism was still similar: a product was global by being sold in a series of local markets. Ideas and good products spread faster.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You Need to Do it All the Time True social media marketing — that is, connecting with your customers and prospects — is a consistent and regular task. One-off campaigns can help drive viral success, but social media is not a “set it and forget it&# type of initiative. Still, though, you trudge through it.