A Social Media Strategy Analysis: Overstock.com
I recently read an article detailing the social media capabilities of the superstar online retailer Amazon. It was an interesting look at the shopping luminary, and their short comings when it came to utilizing social media. As the Christmas shopping season commences, this article left me thinking, Which online retailers are using social media properly [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on December 26th, 2010 in Best Practices, Case Studies, External Community, Internal Community, Owned Media, Social Media, Strategy, WebsitesNo Comments
Does social marketing make sense for the B2B world?
B2B marketing leaders agree that social marketing is a great idea for consumer brands like Starbucks, but many are not yet convinced that social media is right for their companies. Selling to business is different than selling to consumers, right? No one would argue that the B2B and B2C worlds are exactly the same. Yes, [...]
Posted by Integrating All of Your Online Efforts Is Key To Success
We are now meeting with dozens of prospective clients and we are seeing a pretty wide range of approaches being taken when it comes to Social Media. Many companies feel somewhat behind and they are trying to “catch up” by throwing up fan-pages, twitter accounts and Youtube channels hoping that something positive will happen. We [...]
Social Media Creates Brand Awareness, But How to Measure?
The recently published Strategic Framework for Applied Social Media serves as an excellent back-drop for discussing our Marketing Imperative: “creating awareness, growing sales and taking market share.” We presupposed in our earlier discussion that some definite value levers supporting marketing can be positively affected through the use of Social Media: Improving the efficiency of creating [...]
Posted by Paul Stillmank on September 28th, 2009 in Social Media, Strategy, Uncategorized, Web AnalyticsNo Comments