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This Weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Marketing Mix: Which Channel is More Effective?

Direct Marketing Observations

Agencies and old-school marketers feel comfortable when discussing digital as just another channel. we are all new-age digital marketers. When it comes down to it this topic cannot be about marketers adding a new channel, it has to be about those marketers who can adopt to changing consumer behaviors and those who cannot.

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Does Engagement Equal Action? Should it?

Direct Marketing Observations

The passengers were prompted to look on page 26 of the inflight magazine to view what was available and what the cost was. So how does the apply to social media marketing or even digital marketing? Tags: Marketing Social Media marketing. Example #1.

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Competing with Free

Direct Marketing Observations

Every day we’re faced with free and I hate it… Marketers throw free around like it’s confetti. I think part of the reason why case studies on organizations that do it differently are written is because the majority of marketers and companies do it the same way over and over with predictably average results.

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The Social Customer

Direct Marketing Observations

Marketing was marketing and technology was, well, technology and never did the two meet. You did not worry about their greenhouse effects, the videos their employees were making behind the scenes or how much the same product cost at other stores within a 7 block radius.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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In just 10 years, our century-old mass-market media model has given way to a new structure dominated by the economics of one. Customers now take their opinions directly to the market. The contraction of mass-market media has brought plenty of pain. The cost of reaching a targeted customer will only decline in the years to come.

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10 social sites to start your year off with

Direct Marketing Observations

1) A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of B2B and B2C marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones. Find out more about what’s working for social media marketers in this great E-marketer piece. You have to pay for it, but the cost is not obscene.

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Social Media Marketing:Do you know enough to know where to begin?

Direct Marketing Observations

If you are a marketer thinking about social media marketing then there is a good chance, if you have not done anything yet, that its because you just don’t have enough information yet. In this post I want to address those issues so that you can get started with social media marketing. Good question right? The How To.