Dave Fleet

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Burger King Twitter Hacking: Take A Chill Pill

Dave Fleet

Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked today, with the hacker turning the company’s Twitter page into an offensive mock-up of a McDonalds Twitter channel. If Burger King needed to go through Twitter to to pull the account down, how long it took them to respond.

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Facebook Timeline for Brands: Curation and Palpitation

Dave Fleet

We, meanwhile, see it as giving brands a new way to tell their story as communications becomes more and more focused on exactly that. Here’s what we didn’t realize back in October: The Timeline you see on a brand page is personalized by your friends’ actions. My friend Jay Baer says it betrays small businesses.

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Four theories on the declining trust in Canadian social media

Dave Fleet

This aggressive push led Facebook to become less and less about communities of ‘people like me’ and more replete with brands advertising to users. The gradual decline of Twitter. It’s more of a secondary ‘I happened to see that’ side-effect, whereas people often specifically search Twitter for news).

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When Agencies Can’t Be Transparent

Dave Fleet

When approaching clients on objectives to begin social media, agencies focus on three overarching areas: consumer trust, brand engagement and transparency. Transparency can come in a few forms : the form of humanizing the brand; the form of understanding the consumer and responding; or the form of disclosing sensitive information.

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Facebook Strategies: Content Over Creative

Dave Fleet

The immensely smart Jay Baer directed my attention to research conducted by Jeff Widman of Brand Glue , who found that 99.5% So, your job #1 as a steward of your brand’s Facebook page is to draw people to your page and maximize your conversion rate of visits to “likes.&# Interesting, right? The rise of spacial marketing.

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Six essential shifts in social media strategy

Dave Fleet

Gone are the days when the GMOOT (Get Me One Of Those) approach will get you anywhere – simply having a Twitter account, or a Facebook Page, isn’t enough. Building a social media infrastructure to support the social brand. We’ve reached a critical point in the evolution of social media as a business tool. Setting SMART objectives.

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Why Share of Voice is a Useless PR Metric

Dave Fleet

What our clients are not properly asking for when they say “show me our share of voice” is “mindshare&# or what they truly care about which is “share of wallet.&# They want to know what the perception of their brand is in relation to other brands. You can follow him on Twitter at @theelusivefish.].

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