Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 26, 2010

I must admit that I was inspired to write this post based on the Social Media club of Orlando. They had tweeted me an invite to an event titled, “Mistakes and Lessons Learned in Social Media. We talk about enterprise wide integration of social media but that takes on different forms. 4) No Value.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 26, 2010

I came across Tlists when I showed up on one of it’s lists of “The most listed Tweeters on 921 lists about Social Media&#. Social Media Marketing GPS: A New Media Roadmap For Creating A Social Media Strategy. - Social Media Marketing GPS: A New Media Roadmap For Creating A Social Media Strategy.

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Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Throughout all the major social media platforms and channels of course. The first thing you do in this new digital age is you use the tools that you have at your disposal, to confer with those that are completely enamored of the brand and you ask them what they think and you listen to them. They went off. What do we do?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 23, 2011

Including corporate America, and yet that is their greatest fear with social media. They fear the new found empowerment of an existing employee and the new hires that have expectations around the company being truly social and digital. Of becoming social. Of empowering employees with social tools.

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Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

What’s right in social media? As much as some people are apt to point out the #FAILS in social media, this was the big win of 2010. What’s wrong with social media? The semantics of social media education. Is it tools? What’s next in social media?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 27, 2010

I’m always looking for the new tool. Social media is no exception. Social media is no exception. We just have a different name for it, it’s called social media obsolescence. This extends to the social networks that we use. Because people keep buying them. Share this Post.

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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

JULY 12, 2010

I read an article in Wired’s Epicenter from a couple of days ago titled- Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine and the article caught my eye for a number of reasons. The first reason is that when I first “dabbled&# in social media 5 years ago-I was that marketer. I had an epiphany.

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Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Executives are turning FUD around and using it on their own organizations with regards to the use of social media. While companies widely accept that social media is transforming the business landscape, executives are still reluctant to approve anything more than small tests or pilot programs.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 9, 2010

3) I love this deck, The Tipping Points of Social Media. 4) If your not a fan of Social Media Today, you should be. It’s essentially a mobile advertising and lead generation tool for real estate sales and marketing professionals. Tags: social media Social Networks marc meyer.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Excuse me while I say the following: If it wasn’t for social media, you wouldn’t be anywhere near where you are right now in your career. To put it more succinctly, social media has made a lot of you. You see, for a lot of us, and notice I said us , social media added that missing layer.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 10, 2011

Can an internal socially powered ideation platform or network empower and propel an employee into massive production and an upbeat morale? Does social media offer the panacea to an employee who feels that he is not being paid what he is worth? Does social give a voice to the employee who isn’t happy?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 26, 2010

Depending on your background and skillsets, the early days of social media for a lot of us, were so wonderous and so filled with curiosity. We told whoever was listening about it, and even those who might not have been listening, how cool and powerful this thing called social media was. We blogged about it.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

First and foremost, I use it as a competitive intelligence tool. So beyond having this stable of intimate business connections, who does the passively dynamic social network that is Linkedin serve best? And for that reason alone, Linkedin is a valuable passive dynamic social network. It’s a barometer.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 28, 2010

When customers and people are upset and have been wronged, they can take to social networks and the power of viral socialness and vent and complain and create momentum to make a difference and affect change. So it does have social media undertones. Why are crisis management policies and plans needed?

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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. Yoono connects you to your social networks and messengers. Yoono connects you to your social networks and messengers. Actually 2 points.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

especially when it comes to digital, social media, and marketing. With that being said, I started to think of who or what will continue to astound me in regards to pushing the social media envelope. Because of the ability to tell a digital social story both visually and textually. Social commerce?

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