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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

Social Media Strategery

Social media was going to change the world, and I wanted to be at the tip of the spear. I joined a rapidly growing cadre of change agents using social media to radically transform everything from fixing potholes and broken stoplights to managing city budgets. . No one talked about social “content.”

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy.

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Using Social Media to Reach the Hard-Working Class

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For marketers, these moms don’t represent just a new, sizable consumer segment, they wield a lot of influence within their families and with their friends. They like/follow/subscribe to brands in social media…if there’s a deal involved. They use coupons…a lot. Go where they are. Evolve the coupon.

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. There’s paid media, earned media, owned media, shared media, and something called omni-channel media. How segregated are their advertising and editorial teams?

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Can Corporate Communications Stay in the Spotlight Post-COVID?

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Budgets will not only shift back toward performance marketing, consumer marketing, social media advertising and other ROI-driven activities, they may even increase to compensate for time spent out of market. The pendulum will swing back toward those sexy consumer marketing programs yet again.