Jeff Esposito

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The Importance of Company Personas in Social Media

Jeff Esposito

For example, Flo from Progressive Insurance and Doug from Ford are both marketing personas but so are the hundreds of buyer personas created during the research phase of almost all campaigns. Nokia used this technique during their Somebody Else’s Phone campaign. Nokia used this technique during their Somebody Else’s Phone campaign.

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It’s time to put an end to siloed views of social media.

Jeff Esposito

In a vacuum, these success metrics fail to show things like how much time social media content reduced a sales lead’s conversion time or how a candidate learned about a company’s great corporate culture or support from a recent blog or media mention. Someone has to make the change, why not lead the charge?

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Don't burn bridges

Jeff Esposito

Home About Archives Press Clips Spark Advisors Suggested Reading Don’t burn bridges Written on September 1, 2010 by Espo in Company , social media I recently read a blog post from Dave Fleet that really put words to something that I had been pondering for a bit. You can also subscribe to the blog to ensure you receive the latest posts.

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Five for Friday 8.20

Jeff Esposito

In Pictures: Best-Ever Social Media Campaigns – Who would have known that the Blair Witch Project is a social media campaign. Check out the reasoning and other campaigns that made the list from Forbes. You can also subscribe to the blog to ensure you receive the latest posts. Enjoy this post?

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Friends with benefits, conquering fear and non-sexy products

Jeff Esposito

Now that I have to apologize for deviating from the main messaging of this blog to ask you to consider peeping out some panels for SXSW 2013 that me and some of my coworkers at Vistaprint are on. Get your mind out of the gutter… this isn’t that kind of post.

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Jimmy Fund Helps You Social Media for Social Good

Jeff Esposito

After checking out the promotion, I talked to my friend Coral Vogel who is the assistant director of social media at the Boston-based charity about this fundraising campaign. I have a robust Google Reader account where I try to keep up to date on the ever changing social sphere by following many different social media blogs.

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5 reasons to practice old school PR

Jeff Esposito

I’ve yet to be engaged in a media relations campaign when a reporter doesn’t ask for “the press release.” As a died-in-wool Toronto Maple Leafs hockey fan, PR veteran Elissa Freeman jumped at the chance to guest blog for a guy with the last name ‘ Esposito ’ from Boston. Nobody reads them anymore!”