Janet Fouts

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Advertising Is Not Content Marketing

Janet Fouts

And Content Marketing is not Advertising. It’s a hard thing to beat into a marketer’s head sometimes. Many brand marketers believe their goal in life is to write tasty copy that extolls the virtues of their products and nothing more. Most bloggers intimately know their market. Here’s the thing.

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Just get us the Millennials! #Marketing #Fail

Janet Fouts

“Just get us the millennials” This mind set is short-sighted and mindless old-school marketing at best! Millennial’s are just one demographic in your potential market and you need to think carefully before you focus entire marketing campaigns on them. Are you ready to market online? Tweet this.

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What Online Marketers Can Learn From the Red Bull Jump

Janet Fouts

Yesterday was a momentous event in advertising history. It’s also a great lesson in how marketing on and offline has changed. Even the chevy ad that got such great coverage in this case, and potentially supported a big part of the marketing expenses for Red Bull. Certainly in this case RedBull can say it #Givesyouwings!

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Diversity and Inclusion at HP- #mindfulsocial with @dailyslate

Janet Fouts

Coupling her global marketing, branding, communications, and diversity and inclusion experience, with a deep passion for social entrepreneur and leadership development, she has led key efforts to address the digital divide and build a sustainable enterprise in Senegal, West Africa.

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There Is No Free Social Media For Business

Janet Fouts

Businesses flocked to both networks and created free accounts to market their wares as well as paying a nominal fee to get their content in front of interested users. Many businesses have shifted to using social sites as customer support venues, marketing platforms and communities. do we really expect not to have to pay for it?

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Shockvertising… It’s a thing

Janet Fouts

Everybody’s talking about the latest in a series of interactive advertisements that use surprise, shock and often fun to stand out and get their message across. Watch it here: There have been other great examples of this type of advertising.

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CEOs-Roll Up Your Social Media Sleeves

Janet Fouts

It may sound like a recipe for disaster for any CEO edgy enough to take center stage in a content marketing strategy…except when it works. Just this week his engagement earned him an unsolicited compliment from an Advertising Age editor, who also appears to be a subscribing customer. His sleeves were rolled up. His tie was loose.