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10 social sites to start your year off with

Direct Marketing Observations

1) A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of B2B and B2C marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones. Odd, but the net and social media does create somewhat of a Flash mob “follow&# mentality. 5) Tamar Weinberg is a star.

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Why Conservative Doesn’t Mean Boring in Financial Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

I gave a webinar a few weeks back about how to come up with fresh and fun ideas for content marketing using improv comedy. It conflates conservative voice (or market or strategy) with a mandate to have conservative (boring!) marketing content. They want a reprieve from all the bad marketing content shoved at them every day.