Adam Cohen

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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

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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Engaging the Right Audience on LinkedIn

Adam Cohen

Several weeks ago, LinkedIn launched the LinkedIn Follow Button allowing followers to follow a company page on LinkedIn directly from owned assets like web pages and blogs. This week LinkedIn launched two new products that allow companies to more effectively engage the followers they have. Imitation is Flattery.

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Social Media Does Not Exist

Adam Cohen

I had an interesting discussion recently about Social media strategies. When discussing inputs to a social media strategy, an admitted “social media skeptic&# replied that she thought there shouldn’t be a need for them; rather that social media strategies were really just customer relationship strategies.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

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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The Digital Five Tool Player

Adam Cohen

As the convergence of different marketing tactics takes root in agencies, vendors and marketing departments of companies of all sizes, I’ve started to think about what it takes to ultimately be a “ five tool player &# in the digital space. Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media (9). Related Posts.

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On Beyond Snake Oil

Adam Cohen

While there will never be a shortage of folks trying to take advantage, it’s time that companies treat finding a partner to help in social media like they would with any other partnership. Your company’s current agency ecosystem. Social media maturity of the company. Internal resource support and sponsorship.

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Update Your Segmentation Model With Social Data Before It’s Too Late

Adam Cohen

We’ve passed the point where social media is a revolution, and chances are most companies have some sort of social effort underway. Maybe I’m just stating the obvious, and maybe companies have already started efforts to figure this out. Customer Engagement Digital Marketing Strategy Social Media Segmentation'

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