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JUNE 20, 2011

What, no Twitter? A few months ago, I read a great blog post by Ray Grieselhuber on the Ginzametrics blog about Trader Joe’s, and the fact that they, a major grocery chain, didn’t have an official presence on Twitter. It made me think about the largest company in the UK without a Twitter account.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Segment your target markets. Use keywords.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2011

My Twitter experience began over three years ago with an anonymous account. So I created a more professional Twitter account, with the intention of making a grand announcement one day. Gaining followers is much easier when you have your face as your avatar, and a descriptive Twitter bio. Guest post by Sanjiva Persad.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Yes, we’re even starting to talk about marketing. Libya’s Media and Marketing Industries Inching Forward is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Libya’s Media and Marketing Industries Inching Forward. Turn on the radio in Tripoli today.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It’s not because it disagrees with my sensibilities (though it does), nor because I have a particular affection for Twitter (though I do). The author has a Twitter account , I’ll grant him that, but by the looks of it, doesn’t actually engage with anyone. Also, claiming that anonymity is the root cause of the problem is ill-informed.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 12, 2014

For marketers, memes may have come to represent something very different: an “in” with the “Internet culture” crowd. What we’re talking about here is memejacking: another of those made-up-sounding words that has come to have a welcome place in the marketer’s toolkit. Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. She lives in Takoma Park, Md.,

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 5, 2011

Last week Seth Duncan of Beyond stopped by the #measurePR Twitter chat to talk about something I thought was very intriguing. Instead of always talking about what PR can learn from marketing analytics, what if we asked what marketing can learn from PR measurement? Pretty radical, eh? It was really interesting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 22, 2016

– influencer marketing best practices, relationship-building, and measuring your efforts. They included: Gini Dietrich , CEO of Arment Dietrich and queen creator of the popular Spin Sucks blog community; Founder of the influencer marketing platform Traackr (my client), Pierre-Loic Assayag (my friend!)

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2015

If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. Then you started distributing said content through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest… maybe other platforms as well.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 13, 2016

This is where influencer marketing comes to the rescue. Loosely defined as a marketing strategy involving influencers to impact buyer decisions and boost a brand’s visibility by using their online personality and popularity, influencer marketing has many takers. ” Often, marketers equate influencers with celebrities.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 31, 2012

Well, recently Gini Dietrich invited Lindsay Bell to dinner via The Twitter. I mean, they chose “Manwich” for their Twitter handle. So you see, you don’t have to have a Twitter account to find immense value in The Twitter for your business… but you do need to be listening. You should.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Ah… content marketing. “Let’s do some content marketing!” When content marketing lets you down. This is a classic case of being let down by content marketing. When Content Marketing Lets You Down is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. The hot new kind on the PR block.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 30, 2015

So if your marketing feels as if it might be in a rut (already!), Here are some ideas on “buzz marketing” (I know, I know). 6 Buzz Phrases Marketers Should Take Seriously in 2015. Winning the Marketing Battle Between Help and Hype. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral.

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Here are some of the most interesting posts on 2015 marketing and PR trends we’ve seen. How 4 Social Media Predictions Impact Email Marketers. 6 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2015. Five 2015 digital marketing trends for your consideration. Why: What does marketing look like when there are no boundaries?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 4, 2016

When it comes to using humor in marketing, advertising and public relations, we often have to step back and answer a few questions before proceeding down a path of knock-knock jokes, current event inspired memes and company social media postings which could potentially make your mother-in-law cringe.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Another excellent example from the mid-market is Twist Image and Mitch Joel. It’s not just marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 28, 2011

We PR pros often talk about what Public Relations can learn from Marketing. But what can Marketing learn from Public Relations, if anything? “First, once marketing materials are shared online, they are no longer under the control of the brand. How to be more analytical. Focusing on the numbers. Being more results-driven.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 15, 2016

As more and more brands jump on the influencer marketing bandwagon, how they structure influencer programs and communications is becoming increasingly important. But I don’t need to have signed up to know one thing: this company is not engaging in true influencer marketing. Here are some guidelines. Create content?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2015

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing? Words and Pictures – the Batman and Robin of Content Marketing is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. Or that I’ve never really outgrown comics and cartoons.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 8, 2015

Effective marketing. Marketing is most effective when it pulls qualified leads into your pipeline, and that’s all about attracting. How can you hone your marketing messaging to its most compelling and simple form? So we could call this marketing. Keep it simple in marketing. Keep It Simple In Marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 5, 2015

Leah Fein-Roque , who specializes in tech PR and digital marketing understands the Snapchat appeal personally: “I have a 21, 19 and 16 year old using it mostly for everything including texting. But these metrics probably are not informative about how your Snapchat campaigns are contributing to your overarching PR or marketing goals.

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JUNE 24, 2019

On the marketing dance floor, influencer marketing is all the craze-because it works. In fact, 58 percent of brands have seen improved brand awareness and perception from influencer marketing campaigns. This is great news for marketers looking to increase the impact of their campaigns. Guest Post by Debbie Friez.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Considering how active we all are on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, when Starbucks opens its Delhi location, I’m sure I’ll be among the first customers to visit them, and of course check-in at Foursquare/Facebook and tweet about it too! Image: bfishadow via Flickr, CC 3.0 .

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 1, 2020

“All this free time on your hands” As we move into Week 523 of The Shutdown To End All Shutdowns, I have noticed an increase in the number of marketing emails that offer suggestions on what to do with “all this free time on your hands.” Who is letting marketing like this get through?

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MARCH 21, 2019

I developed a powerful friendship with Shonali because of Twitter. It’s a big reason why I’m taking a break from Twitter and have stepped back from paying close attention to the news and more attention to what’s happening around me. Matt LaCasse is a digital media marketing specialist for Inter-State Studio in Sedalia, Missouri.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Content marketing is essential for any business in the modern age – it’s creating valuable and relevant resources that customers consume and use, in order to sway them towards then using your products and services. Are you receiving the full benefits which content marketing can offer? Guest Post by Aimee Laurence.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 18, 2013

AAP did not restrict itself to Facebook and Twitter , but used Google+ and Linkedln in a big way; in fact, the latter proved to be a major source of donations. The supporters of the party were very active on Twitter, making sure to provide answers if anyone had any questions or needed clarification. reading and traveling.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 12, 2013

Like his free ebook, 25 Secrets – How I Wrote and Marketed a New York Times Bestselling Book. As Jay describes in his ebook, his entire process is a marketing goldmine. There are so many facets to what he did, and how he continues to market the book, it’s a bit mind-boggling. Or several. I mean, what a great line.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 9, 2014

According to reliable sources, 90,000 people engaged with the brand on Facebook and over 9,000 interactions were recorded on Twitter by 375+ participants. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Match Makers go Social by Breaking Stereotypes. Over this time, 53 different stereotypes were posted about, which reached over 1.1 reading and traveling.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 31, 2019

After working on Welcome to the Machine: A Primer on AI for Marketers (coming later this year), for almost a year now, I can offer you some quick insights that may help. In fact, I have seen brands like BMW parse their social advertising by zip code and optimize content and channel (Pinterest or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Facebook does not allow you to contact people outside your own network unless you have an email list (unlike Twitter). Most of the Likes we have are from people I connected with on Twitter on behalf of the client. The problem is: if I follow you on Twitter, why should I also follow you on Facebook? So what can you do?

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MARCH 25, 2013

They do something I always say is more important than marketing. Here is a short Q&A with Ashley Butler , Chobani’s Community Coordinator, who is based in NYC (the center of their marketing operations): WUL : I am curious: how many cups of yogurt do you guys sell in a day? Every business has such relationships. Great product.

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APRIL 9, 2020

It’s what marketers have been struggling with since Biz and Ev clicked their heels three times and said, “There’s no place like Twitter.” Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19 appeared first on Shonali Burke Consulting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 22, 2016

In this post I’m going to focus on four social platforms where any publisher can leverage distributed content to better control their social messaging: Facebook, Apple News, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It is important that marketing and communications professionals understand the control that they can now assert on platform-specific content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The concept of converging media continues to heat up, most notably with marketers discussing the dynamics of blending paid, owned and earned media. While the paid, owned and earned concept has been circulated for quite a while now, it’s becoming a common part of the marketing strategist’s vocabulary.

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