Dave Fleet

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Six important shifts for social media in 2012

Dave Fleet

That means fewer companies treating fan or follower growth or video views as goals, fewer made-up numbers and more focusing on business outcomes – sales, cost savings, customer/employee retention etc. My hope is that this will continue in 2012. More effective measurement. Focusing on the less-shiny object.

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Where does content fit in Facebook’s new marketing model?

Dave Fleet

Processes – integration and an “and, not or” approach: Success in this new Facebook will depend on even tighter integration between community managers, content teams and paid media in order to find the right balance of engagement, business results-driven content and advertising.

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10 Social Media Lessons From Home Improvement

Dave Fleet

In a brief moment of downtime, I started thinking about the social media lessons you can learn from the process of renovating a house. We went for good – it costs more, but we’ll reap the rewards in the long-term. I came up with ten – let me know what you think of them in the comments: 1. Everything is integrated.

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Forrester: Email and search drive online sales, not social

Dave Fleet

What about cost avoidance? As Marketing Pilgrim noted, Forrester’s report shows that 30% of repeat sales involve email in the process. What about driving people to sign up to receive information over time? What about customer retention, loyalty and advocacy? You know what I don’t hate, though?

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All sorts of things About Electronic Private Network, or VPN

Dave Fleet

The greatest advantages of by using a VPN is definitely the cost effectiveness that can handle in providing a solitary private network in evaluation to employing separate leased lines which could burn the pockets of corporate companies.

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