Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Adam Cohen

AUGUST 24, 2010

How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers? How many customers does your company have? No doubt the numbers stack up in a heavy ratio against people inside the company that are trained to engage them. The third is a consumer goods company. How about potential customers?

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 8, 2010

MarketingSherpa recently published a study of companies that are integrating social media tactics with offline and online marketing tactics. When companies start to realize these synergies, they will be able to achieve a lot more than focusing on pure social media tactics alone. Frankly, well put. Photo credit: niemster via Flickr.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

No way I’m going to share how brilliant sharing behind the scenes is, nor how I really think it’s brilliant to mix who they reply to between influencers and “normal people&# who barely have any followers. &# since I’m sure people never ask that about TV commercials the day they first air. Thanks for dropping by.

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