Remove Bazaarvoice Remove Loyalty Remove Marketing Remove Social Media
article thumbnail

Word of mouth marketing: how to drive conversations and sales at the same time

Sprout Social

Customer conversations are among your most valuable marketing assets. With a defined word of mouth marketing strategy, you can create a consistent flow of customer conversations that regularly result in new business. What is word of mouth marketing, anyway? What is word of mouth marketing, anyway? Far from it, actually.

article thumbnail

The Big(ger) Marketing Shift

Twist Image

If there are a few things that are certain in Marketing, it is that we are seeing a ton of new tactics enter the fray, we have more data on these new tactics than ever before, and it's fairly difficult to pull back and see the bigger picture. Marketing must change. If I Blog, then you comment and I respond, that's not community.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What A CMO Wants. What A CMO Needs.

Twist Image

Being a Chief Marketing Officer is no easy gig. So, what do CMOs really want out of Social Media (and do they think it's going to save them)? Our good friends over at Bazaarvoice decided to take a swipe at this question, and released the results in a nine page (and free!) This is from the executive summary.

article thumbnail

Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

Social media, says the report, drives less than 1% of online sales. As reported by Marketing Pilgrim : Paid search matters most for new customers. Social tactics are not meaningful sales drivers. What about customer retention, loyalty and advocacy? Email matters most for repeat customers.

article thumbnail

Social Pros 6 – Instagram Lessons from a Giant B2B Company

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 6 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Jonathan Wichmann the head of social media for Maersk Line , the world’s largest container shipping company. I can’t do social media.” The RSS feed is: [link].

Company 120
article thumbnail

50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Still, questions remain: how do I use social media most effectively across the enterprise? Which social media monitoring tools should I use? Can social media ROI really be measured?