Adam Cohen

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have. Brian Solis has a terrific series starting this week on the changing marketing, advertising and communications, where he adds a 5th P: People. Will there be future demand for products?

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Professional Services at the Digital Crossroads

Adam Cohen

Marketers are embracing the troves of data available and looking at how to craft effective campaigns, content and platforms to reach audiences in new ways. These are exciting times for anyone in the advertising, marketing and communications space. image credit: PedjaP via flickr.

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The Content Convergence Dilemma: Where’s the Content Department?

Adam Cohen

That content can take many forms – user-generated, interactive, structured (data), marketing, conversational, and others. Marketing organizations are historically built around generation of “finished” content. I’ve seen clients put all the funding for that in marketing, and others in PR.

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Social Media Success is About The Customers, Stupid

Adam Cohen

They all in many ways were first to market, which in an industry like marketing tends to benefit those who create the buzz first. Being first to market doesn’t guarantee success, nor is it a requirement to gain success. …getting coverage at PR and marketing conferences. Photo credit: cayusa via flickr.

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Some Brand Haiku Humor

Adam Cohen

In his continuing reign as the Kevin Bacon of Social Media, Aaron was quickly able to recruit a list of talented marketers to join in the fun. photo credit: jadendave via Flickr. Co-opetition in the World of Social Media Marketing (10). See the entire list at Aaron’s original post. Don’t recall what a Haiku is?

Brands 210
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Update Your Segmentation Model With Social Data Before It’s Too Late

Adam Cohen

Attention digital marketers: It’s time. If you aren’t infusing “why” people are using social media into your marketing segmentation model, you may be missing key ways to make digital marketing successful. photo credit: Evan via flickr. Are you seeing the same thing?

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

Adam Cohen

Attention digital marketers: It’s time. If you aren’t infusing “why” people are using social media into your marketing segmentation model, you may be missing key ways to make digital marketing successful. photo credit: Evan via flickr. Are you seeing the same thing?

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