Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Whether it’s marketing or public relations, I often have people tell me: “It’s different for me. You don’t sell directly to the end user, but to retailers and office furniture/office supply stores. Image: Andy Carvin via Flickr, CC 2.0. Guest post by Ken Mueller. I’m in B2B, not B2C. Social Media won’t work for me.”. Balderdash!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Image via niallkennedy on Flickr, CC 2.0. Make sure that on your invoices, website, dealings with customers, marketing literature, email signatures, etc. In our case, the client is not a coffee shop or retailer, so this is a real challenge until they have greater name recognition. They are a service business.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

2005: Flickr. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? When he's not blogging, Ari helps brands improve their digital media marketing. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. Or, do I want to use it as a base for experimentation? Ask Chiaki Williams. 2007: Facebook.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 1, 2011

I started out as possibly the store’s worst cashier ever, knowing nothing whatsoever about retail transactions from the drawer-side of the cash register. Photo credit: Mark Wallace via Flickr, CC 2.0. I did it because I instinctively knew those mini-relationships would pay off when the system came up short. Name changed.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 28, 2016

Photo courtesy of Sean MacEntee, flickr, CC BY 2.0. The global messaging market is saturated. In the early days of push messaging there was an idea that retail businesses could use geo-location data to push offers to potential customers walking past a store front. T hat’s it. We’re done. Probably more.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

a thousand cuts :: adam cohen's blog About Blogroll Contact a thousand cuts conversations about social media and interactive marketing by adam cohen 16 JUL I Will Not Write About Old Spice Posted by: adam / Tags: Advertising , Isaiah Mustafa , Old Spice , Social Media , Television , YouTube / Comments: View Comments I will resist the urge.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Networking Meets Game Consoles | Main | Social Media Marketing Checklist from SES Chicago » November 30, 2009 Cyber Monday Is Here! Nearly 80% of online retailers say their sales went way up last year on Cyber Monday. What is Cyber Monday ? View an alternate.

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Adam Cohen

AUGUST 24, 2010

Traditional advertising and marketing provides a cushion, putting out messaging to the large customer population to influence their purchase behavior. The retailer already tried the leap – they started with the prototypical Facebook page, a couple of Twitter accounts, some user generated content contests. Related Posts.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2011

This past weekend, my friend Ken Mueller shared a video he’d taken of a Christmas flash mob at the Lancaster Central Market, singing the Hallelujah Chorus. Image: Taylor McConnell via Flickr, CC 2.0. I love flash mobs – who doesn’t, right? It’s a cute video, albeit without much arm-shaking and leg-waggling.

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The smartphone app supports sharing on social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and FourSquare. Businesses, especially restaurants and cloth retailers who are not using FourSquare are missing out on a big opportunity. Yelp’s available on iOS and Android. Why businesses should use Instagram? FourSquare.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

If you’ve got a highly visual product, use Flickr and Pinterest; if you can make video part of the mix, set up a company channel on YouTube and Vimeo. As long as the links are topically relevant and connect high-quality sites, those links have SEO value. Social media. It isn’t nice to try to fool Google, Yahoo!, Ask, AOL or Bing either.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 11, 2012

Looking at the results, it could be an opportunity to provide heaters in the first place (retailer), help manage finances better (financial advisor/bank), or fix the window (glazier). Image: daniel duende via Flickr, CC 2.0. You can read more from Danny at his award-winning marketing blog , or follow him on Twitter at @DannyBrown.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. Image credit: Trev Grant (Flickr) --.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 10, 2012

Image: Mash Potato via Flickr, CC 2.0. “On average, a business only sees about 20 to 25 cents on the dollar of retail value,” says author and business owner Jay Goltz. And is it a good idea from a public relations and marketing standpoint? I had never seen anything like it. So what can they do? Why or why not?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 23, 2008

37 am Marketing, Social Media & Branding Blogs in India Jump to Comments What XML feed of some of the best Social-media, Marketing and Branding blogs in India Why Thoughts inspired by Age of Conversation’s Douglas Karr. Primarily, there was a need for an XML/OPML file for india focussed blogs.

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Social Media Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

With Pinterest, because the mobile versions are just as simple as the web version - and because they're based on image sharing (again, see above), it's more likely that we'll see more retail driven activity. Image credit: Annie Mole (Flickr). There are some good resources out there with a number of great examples for businesses.

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Proactive Report

JULY 15, 2010

Senior management executives at CPG companies and retailers are clearly giving serious thought to social media and its implications. Tags: Social Media Marketing Tips Social Media Strategy google Search Visibility social media strategy social media training. The Google News timeline shows 38 just in this last week. Independent.ie.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 2, 2011

Image: kondrag via Flickr, CC 2.0. A small but significant percentage of people who register don’t end up riding in the main event because they a) do not raise $2,500 and b) are scared off by the distance (the event is marketed to “all” – not just hard core cyclists). Participants must raise $2,500 to ride.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Courtesy of Dean Meyers Flickr. While economists argue about whether we are now through the recession or whether we’re headed for a double dip, the Labor Market Outlook Report by the Society of Human Resource Management reports that 56% of their respondents expect job growth for the third quarter of 2010. 98% of U.S. 98% of U.S.

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

« Previous | Next » About Saying It Social, LLC provides Social Media Marketing & Local SEO Services for Franchisees & other Small Businesses. Comment by Alex Zagoumenov | August 12, 2010 | Reply Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Well, today I want to help guide you through the raft of marketing, advertising and self-promotion and help you be better informed, based on 5 key metrics and let you in on a dirty little secret – you’re already doing it, you just don’t know it yet. So how can we be sure if the cloud’s right for us?

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 27, 2011

Each one was from a product manufacturer or retailer who had received a negative review or forum post and wanted to know what they could, and should, do about it. Photo courtesy Lars Plougmann on Flickr (CC Licence). If only I’d had the 2011 ‘The Retail Consumer Report’ from Harris available at the time. (h/t

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Sounds a great proposition, especially when recession is on upward swing & markets are hitting rock bottom. Subscribe to Blog Updates Feedburners Stats Email Subscription My Company About Hi, I am Daksh author of themarketingblog & co-founder of Iffort, a web-strategy & digital marketing consulting firm.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 1, 2011

'The Record Shop' courtesy Nicoze on Flickr (CC Licence). Adam’s experience is that record and book shops provide an element of serendipity missing in online retailers, and this is also a familiar comment on news services, and information via social networks which connect you with friends likely to share your world view.

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 17, 2008

Most importantly if you don’t get a t-shirt of your choice you can always return it back to Xtees.com Marketing Xtees.com gets a lot of repeat customers and its marketing efforts are essentially restricted to offline tactics. So I guess now since there are new players in the market which can force xtees to improv these areas.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Remember the advertorial ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Targeting an audience of social media heavyweights that frequently visit New York City is a really useful marketing strategy. Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ Apparently, according to Jonathan and Pam, they have great bacon.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Richard Feinberg, at Purdue University’s Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, certainly doesn’t think so. Image: Anne-Lise Heinrichs via Flickr, CC 2.0 Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Hmm… Decision made. Wanna Subscribe?

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Bare Feet Studios

MAY 26, 2010

They have two pricing levels: retails for $499 though if you are willing to add a 5-second bumper on your videos you can buy it for $199. You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog. They offer a free 30-day trial.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS… by Nancy Myrland on April 6, 2010 An interesting question was posed on a legal marketing forum of which I am a member.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Let’s just take a look at the potential of Facebook for business for a moment here and review the various options business owners have in order to be effective with Facebook business marketing. Online retailer Newegg isn’t afraid and proudly displays its Facebook reviews for all to see. I am one of those users.

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

and Flickr. You share your data on frequency of visits and what you have purchased with the retailer, and in return they give you some rewards in savings or additional offers. And here’s where the loyalty card element comes in: Supermarkets and social networks: The basics of the supermarket loyalty card are pretty simple.

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Justin Levy

JUNE 23, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Facebook Marketing: Now Available! I’m proud to announce that my first book, Facebook Marketing: Designing Your Next Marketing Campaign (affiliate link), is now available for purchase.

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

89% of marketers found listening to be effective but only 37% listened -Saleforce 2015 state of marketing report Click To Tweet. Here is an example of a clothing retailer who wanted to track influencers for a specific campaign using Brandwatch. In this guide, we go through what you need to be monitoring and how to do it.

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Bare Feet Studios

AUGUST 18, 2010

It took 45 minutes and only cost $168 – about half the retail price courtesy of my Progressive policy. You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 25, 2014

Image: Bryn Salisbury via Flickr, CC 2.0. Additionally, in 2009 furniture retailer Habitat decided it might get more traction by including trending hashtags such as #trueblood, #iphone and even #mousavi (who was running in the Iranian presidential election at the time) in tweets about competitions and discounts. .”

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