Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

How can you protect your children from social media? “I’m on top of it, I know what this social networking thing is all about&# , “My child doesn’t really use it&# , “Does it really matter? Share images on Flickr. One might say, “Do we really need to&# ? and you know what? Share music.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 6, 2010

Traipsing in and bellowing to anyone who will listen, that the tranformative nature of social media will change the way you do business for the better, is a lofty claim. What if you could only use one “social solution&# ? Let’s say you’re a consultant, which social media solution would you suggest and why?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 14, 2010

Well here’s a list of a 101 social media websites. 4) The Social Media Group this past week rolled out the “ Social Media RFP , which is essentially a working document on what companies of all sizes should be looking for when hiring a social media consultant or firm. A great read.

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Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

No amount of speaking to customers through various means of social media and optimizing websites was going to make their business pick up given the sorry state of the economy in portions of the rust belt. I was brought on as an SEO and social media marketing consultant , and I’ve done everything and more for them.

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Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

I’m not sure how or why it began like this, actually I have an idea, but the truth is, social media has not helped temper the consumer expectation that the majority of all things on the web should be free. It’s actually been gasoline on an open flame.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 19, 2010

In fact, back in April there was a pretty good post in Social Media Today on 7 social media aggregation tools that you should use that caught my eye. It unifies your status updates into a single stream of information and lets you update your status across all your social networks at once.

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