Social Media Strategery

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Our Flaws Are Our Strengths

Social Media Strategery

Every text, email, post, and Snap is concepted, staged, shot, and shared to emphasize our strengths and optimize our brands. It’s why Dove’s Real Beauty campaign has won every award. Our flawed reality, no matter how difficult it is to talk about, creates a stronger, more sustainable brand than a perfectly manicured one.

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Omnichannel Marketing is the First Step, Not the End Game

Social Media Strategery

And rather than focusing on the real challenge — creating a consistent brand experience at all touchpoints — we focused too much on the how rather than the why. Before you start brainstorming the next big campaign, are there other departments doing something incredible that could be proof points? This was a problem of our own doing.

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Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have

Social Media Strategery

Somehow I don’t think these are the conversations consumers are looking for from brands. Fast Company just published another article discussing how customers are no longer satisfied just with good products and services or low prices – they want collaboration and conversation from brands. Brands win! Customers win!

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Public Relations Isn’t the Cherry on Top

Social Media Strategery

PR isn't: Some transactional activity that's thought about only after the advertising campaign is created. Your brand isn't determined by what you say you are, but by what you actually do. Instead of being a key component of their marketing campaigns, PR is now becoming an integral part of their business plans.

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Sometimes Simplicity Leads to Big Innovation

Social Media Strategery

Brands spend millions of dollars on innovation—establishing innovation labs, commissioning studies, and paying high-priced consultants—all to ensure they don’t become the next Kodak, Blockbuster, or Tower Records. This post or iginally appeared on Hanley Wood’s HIVE for Housing site.

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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

Social Media Strategery

It’s CMOs who only look at the impact on their marketing campaign instead of the impact on their business. Maybe Unilever’s threat will spur other brands to take a more active role in media ethics, but history tells me otherwise. Pay for journalism so the media isn’t forced to rely on brand dollars to survive.

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

Social Media Strategery

Cramer-Krasselt , my employer, while traditionally seen as an ad agency, actually uses an integrated structure that aligns PR, social media, advertising, paid media, CRM, search, and paid media under one P&L that allows us to create seamlessly integrated campaigns across all forms of media. Is your brand willing to retweet his story?