Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 9, 2019

Content resets every day and UGC (User generated content) is the clear winner. The short definition of a content strategist, is essentially the person who is charged with keeping the company interesting. Of course the longer definition has to do with content calendars and working with agencies and teams and departments and writers and designers. The reality is that yesterday’s content is gone, today’s will last until about 9 pm tonight and tomorrow is a new day.

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APRIL 12, 2010

but my concern is that as we become more desensitized to and inundated with UGC, either our desire for better quality will increase-which would be OK, or our expectations for more outrageous, salacious content will need to be met, or we will feel the pressure of sacrificing quality over sensationalism. Tags: social media Social Networks marc meyer blogging UGC

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Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 15, 2010

We used to marvel at UGC, but what is it when large organization start to pass their content off as UGC? Know the difference between “real&# UGC and professional content. Often times you have to step in it to realize you are in it. With social media, you would have to have lived in a cave on an island in the Pacific to not know how ubiquitous it is. It’s permeating every part of our daily lives.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

UGC (user generated content) can, in some cases will, bring the big brands to their knees. Gap North America president Marka Hansen,&# ‘The outpouring of comments’ shows ‘we did not go about this in the right way&# … So for those of you who missed this from last week. Clothing retailer Gap decided to change logos.

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MARCH 12, 2010

When I tweeted about this my tweet essentially said that my faith in the coolness and greatness of UGC has been restored. Ok so the dust settles on some crazy posts that were rattling in my head this week and then poof, you have to wake up and keep going. Yesterday consisted of a killer pitch for a very large SEO project in which the client said afterward that they had never received such a detailed proposal before, and yet… that’s the way all of my proposals are.

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