The reality is that email and bulletin board services (BBS) should be credited with the foundation to the social media revolution of the 2000's. Prior to that we didn't have the digital culture, aka mindset, of communicating and engaging through online services...
The question is no longer about the viable role of social media in a business’ marketing strategy. The question is what role does it play? Businesses are also asking how will they do it? This question is huge because it is inevitable that many businesses...
Event marketing has evolved quite a bit during the past 10 years. Today’s marketing budget must be utilized in the most cost efficient ways to do effective lead generation and to deliver real ROI when you exhibit at an industry conference. I would like to...
The corporate organization that embraces the benefits of employee personal branding with a plan, can reap significant benefits. Here’s a look at some of the key planning elements to harness the personal brand in the corporate workplace....
A well defined company culture supported by employee personal branding produces the best case for effective Internet marketing results....
Too many marketing professionals underestimate or misunderstand the power of LinkedIn for branding and lead generation. Your LinkedIn Company Page is a powerful social destination to display your products and services, communicate positioning message and promotional offers, as well as allow visitors to meet your...
On a daily basis, I hear B2B people say that they use LinkedIn for business and Facebook for personal. They go out of their way to say they don’t want business colleagues or business pages connected to them on Facebook. Each B2B business needs to...
We’re all familiar with the humorous cliché “how many (fill in the blank) does it take to screw in a light bulb?” Obviously, most anyone can handle the mechanical task of inserting a light bulb into the appropriate receptacle. However, the light bulb itself has...
As a boutique internet marketing agency, our new client engagements often begin with a comprehensive online marketing strategy. This provides our clients with a strategic plan to brand themselves online to address their audience’s needs. It also provides a lens in which to view themselves...
Social media marketing is different for B2C (business to consumer) companies than it is for B2B (business to business) companies. Yet, there isn’t much written about the difference in developing a social media plan for a B2B compared to B2C company. So, I’m offering five...