Social Media Strategery

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You Become What You Measure

Social Media Strategery

.” Salmon points to police departments that judge effectiveness on arrests and schools that focus their efforts on increasing standardized test scores as examples of the unintended consequences of yielding decision-making to quantitative data. PR can and should serve a critical role in the integrated marketing mix. Will it stop?

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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. billion industry.

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Create Content for Humans, Not Machines

Social Media Strategery

I’m telling you this so that I can tell you this – I really hate content marketing. Well, let me rephrase – I hate what marketers have done to content marketing. Content marketing used to represent the new era of marketing – a less offensive, less intrusive, and more useful way of advertising. Here’s the problem.

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