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Social media provides the opportunity for market researchers to listen to and mine consumer insights, but this is not the only opportunity presented. Social media allows consumers to directly respond to the changing marketing conditions.
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Evolve or become the next fossil in the wake of social media and brand management. The days of sitting in the ivory tower on a pile of cash are over, you’ve got to be with the masses in the muck to get any kind of footing in the new business of curating the attention of [...]
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The TEDTalks have been a constant source of inspiration for me with their seemingly simple mantra of “Ideas Worth Spreading”. Those of us who love TEDTalks and those of you who are new to them, should be excited about the TED Conference’s newest contribution to our world — “Ads Worth Spreading“.
“Ads Worth Spreading” is a [...]
Two dimensional QR codes have been alive and abroad for several years and yet, the U.S. hasn’t quite taken to them. Customers and users still aren’t sure what to do with them or why they’re on packages and posters. The early adopters didn’t spread as quickly as other technologies that were more tangible.
Marketers must educate [...]
We all know them, the mascots of large corporations — the creepy King of Burger King (since retired), Flo with her bump-it of Progressive Insurance, Mayhem (a personal favorite) of All State Insurance and now “Peggy” of Discover Credit-Cards in his Coogi sweater (tapping into call-center nightmares and a touch of xenophobia).
The latter two fall [...]
Myth #1 about social media: Don’t call yourself a guru.
Never would I ever presume to be a guru but my Twitter does label me as “The Official Twitter of …”. This was first point made by HubSpot Social Media Scientist, Dan Zarrella in his webinar, “The Science of Timing“: identify yourself authoritatively so people will [...]
Another windy morning in Chicago last Thursday ushered in an intrepid LoSasso quartet to The Drake Hotel. Awaiting LoSasso President, Scott LoSasso and Vice President, Mark Hollingsworth were professors from colleges and universities around the Midwest, plumbing the depths of LoSasso’s interactive marketing expertise at the 2011 Spring Marketing Management Association Conference. The talk was [...]
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Last fall, New York City’s subway cars got fancy new clothes. Striving to buttress the MLB’s “Never Miss a Moment” campaign, advertisements wrapped both inside and outside the cars to promote Major League Baseball’s coverage of the Yankees. Industrial cities, like those bordering Chicago, could benefit by branching out into advertising space they may not [...]
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What does net neutrality and its ensuing court battles have to do with B2B and B2C marketing strategies? A bushel and a peck.
Since fall of last year, the F.C.C. and large corporations (Google, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast) have been duking it out over government regulation of the internet – which as of right now is still [...]
” ‘Cause you can look right through me, walk right by me, and never know I’m there…” Or so goes Amos Hart’s sad little song in the musical Chicago. Poor invisible Amos’ verse embodies the challenges facing websites struggling to create relevant content.
There’s been much debate over the amount of social media we process as [...]
