10 Jul

Social Media Promotion Example- Evel Knievel

By: Michael Gray

As a young American boy growing up in the 70’s Evel Knievel was one of my role models. Aside from being a daredevil Evel possessed a strong understanding of marketing and engaged in a level of shameless self promotion that would have made PT Barnum proud.

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10 Jul

Measure Twitter’s Influence

By: Andy Beal

Twitter has become adopted enough among social media influencers that you should be monitoring the service daily for reputation attacks.

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10 Jul

Social Media “Experts”

By: Brian Solis

Social Media is everything you know and nothing about what you think or do in marketing. Sounds strange eh? It’s true though.

Think about how you approach marketing campaigns today and the picture will become a bit clearer.

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10 Jul

Searching For Tweets

By: David Berkowitz

After I finished the first draft of this column, I returned to a post from Jeremiah Owyang on how he uses Twitter and noticed my four examples mirrored his first four of seven. It’s understandable, as there are only so many reliable Twitter tools out there, and most avid tweeters have come to a consensus on what’s best. Jeremiah and I are also writing for different audiences, and the column lets me go deeper on how to use a few of these.

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30 Jun

What Are Your Twitter Favorites?

By: Neville Hobson

Last year it was Facebook. Today’s shiny new object unquestionably is Twitter.

If you haven’t heard of Twitter (it’s now just about in the mainstream), it’s simple to describe:

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30 Jun

The Strength And Weaknesses Of Social Media

By: Andrew Wee

One of the strength and at the same time, weaknesses of social media is it’s social nature.

Because you are able to broadcast your message across multiple platforms and multiple social networks, you can reach a huge number of people in a very short time.

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