Direct Marketing Observations

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Moving without the ball: On Basketball and Digital marketing

Direct Marketing Observations

When what is really necessary is a lot of OFF page SEO work, a lot of content creation, content curation , and content consumption and commenting. You have to be proactive in this new digital paradigm. You can’t wait for it to happen or you’re done. Back to the hoops analogy.

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The secret sauce of social is selfishness-and that’s not a bad thing

Direct Marketing Observations

People are using each other because they’re seeing that our social selves can be so easily intertwined into our ability to create, and curate; and yet it’s also dependent on consumption, its dependent on sharing, dependent on broadcasting the message, the message that is you and me. In social media, the same holds true.

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This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

If you allow members to digitally attack each other via comment threads, etc then you will end up with the same 4 people running your site like street dogs marking their territory on trees. Curating community content to keep it safe will go a long ways for members to want to contribute and connect with greater frequency.

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