Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

2005: Flickr. Do I want to treat Flickr as a serious base for showcasing my photographic works? Comments Comments Related Stories How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts Wondering If Mobile Technology Kills Creativity Tips and Tricks for Productive Telecommuting. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. 2007: Facebook.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 5, 2011

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. But at the same time you are doing that, you can also be doing the B2B end-around. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you manufacture office furniture.

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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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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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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

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. What did I miss? It’s more than just market research, it’s the practical application of [.] More about this blog here.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Image via niallkennedy on Flickr, CC 2.0. In our case, the client is not a coffee shop or retailer, so this is a real challenge until they have greater name recognition. This post will depress all the Facebook Ninjas who’ve drunk the Facebook Koolaid. I have been working with a new client since July. They are a service business.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2011

As you prepare to slow down a bit for the holidays (unless you are in retail, in which case my sympathies are with you), think about how you are crafting the communications with which you’re reaching your customers. Image: Taylor McConnell via Flickr, CC 2.0. Have they been as creative as they could have been?

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Cyber Monday is a marketing term that refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday being the busiest day of the year for retail electronic commerce in the United States. Nearly 80% of online retailers say their sales went way up last year on Cyber Monday. That's more than 51 million people logging on at work.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

Adam has over 15 years of experience leveraging technology to drive and sustain business value for clients in the Consumer Product, Retail, High Tech, Healthcare and Financial Services industries. I sincerely hope that people just sit back and enjoy the brilliant piece of work, and stop giving P&G the link love. Who’s with me? (By

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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.

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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. Additionally, we’re not limiting ourselves to one pain point. Yes please! Is it this simple? Challenge on.

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Adam Cohen

AUGUST 24, 2010

The retailer already tried the leap – they started with the prototypical Facebook page, a couple of Twitter accounts, some user generated content contests. Photo credit: clickflashphotos via Flickr. (Well, the decision to leap anyway – the benefits can be much more reqarding.) Related Posts. On Beyond Snake Oil (1).

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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. I had never seen anything like it. The company offered an assortment of fortune cookies of all sizes stuffed with your own custom fortune.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 16, 2011

Image: Reyhan Dhuny via Flickr, CC 2.0. Image: elessar_nicki via Flickr, CC 2.0. So having had to cough up the full retail price of the phone, you can bet your bottom dollar that the new one has insurance on it. On the San Francisco – Eugene leg, however (also on United), I lost my iPhone. That’s right. In mid-air.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

retailer Target is teaming up with Facebook for Cartwheel , part of a digital savings program that gives consumers a chance to select and share deals in an effort to drive more foot traffic to stores. Image credit: Trev Grant (Flickr) --. Here are eight different roles that community managers must play on any given day.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 28, 2016

Photo courtesy of Sean MacEntee, flickr, CC BY 2.0. 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. While some say we’ve mastered the art of messaging, businesses still feel left out of the messaging world.

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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. The main focus of the stream of news articles is the need for a sound social media strategy as opposed to the unstructured, ad hoc efforts so many companies start out with.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 2, 2011

Image: kondrag via Flickr, CC 2.0. And, finally, Jackson is also an entrepreneur; he co-owns a small retail business called FAIT ICI with his wife, where he takes orders from his better half and sweeps floors a lot. A non-profit client is holding a two-day, 200 km+, cycling fundraiser. Participants must raise $2,500 to ride.

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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). So that's my current view on some of the things happening with Pinterest. What do you think?

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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.

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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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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy. link] FriendFeed [link] LinkedIn [link] MySpace [link] Twitter [link] Digg [link] Seesmic [link] Stumbleupon [link] Ning – Create Your Own Social Network [link] Squidoo [link] Social Tools & Apps Hootsuite – Our Fav!! if yes, please explain.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Everything’s going smashingly well, your site has amazing uptime backed by one of the world’s biggest retailers and your tribe is loving it. Then tell me, honestly, do you use any of the following: Dropbox. iPhone, iPod, iOS. Android Phones or Tablet devices. Amazon Web Services. Google Docs, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Aiming to reach a target group of 15 million potential booklet buyers comprising young professionals, college students and housewives they know that this is exactly the same group that the expanding pool of retailers is trying to reach across the country. There website called [link] is full of such great offers.

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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

How Simply use the import feature in your feed reader to import from these blogs. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup.

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 17, 2008

We launch only designs that have some kinda attitude … We do not launch soft designs on our site 2) XTEES is first a retail brand and we are building up a wide retail presence. 1) XTEES is a wild tshirt brand that has some kinda cult in it. was a regular xtees customer till sometime back.

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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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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 Sure, it’ll be seen by millions of people, but who knows if they have any impact and actually propel people to use those services/buy those products?

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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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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Jaffe agrees, saying “I think their efforts are great; it’s almost a backchannel in of itself.

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

Here is an example of a clothing retailer who wanted to track influencers for a specific campaign using Brandwatch. Nuvi is a real-time social media monitoring tool that provides full social media coverage across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram, Google+, Delicious, Reddit and over 5 million RSS feeds.

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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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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

While many lawyers shy away from Facebook for business development, if you are practicing retail law: family law, personal injury law, employment law etc – than Facebook is a great place to engage with individuals talking about what you do. Twitter, FB, LI and YouTube, Open Forum, Connected, Legal OnRamp, JDSupra.

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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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