Posted at June 26, 2013 01:06 PM in Agency
This is the first of a five-part series on how to repurpose content to save time and increase exposure. Today, we’re going to explore how to repackage content that originates with a Facebook contest.  Think you don’t have to time to brainstorm and write new content for every medium? Stop posting in separate silos. Creating stand-alone content for each medium is highly inefficient. When you cross-pollinate and repackage content across mediums, you save time and energy, and give your campaigns more momentum than ever. Use this example to see how you can take one piece of content and turn it into a multi-channel campaign.
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Posted at June 24, 2013 12:54 PM in Agency
There is already a slew of articles regarding Facebook metrics which tell you why they are important and suggest which metrics you should track and why. However, there seems to be very little discussion regarding Facebook ratios. In the world of finance (which is governed by numbers), ratios are king. There are hundreds of financial ratios that can be measured from just a few core metrics. Unlike metrics, ratios identify relationships, which can give you much deeper insights and far more accurate diagnostics than by merely looking at the performance of one metric.
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Posted at June 21, 2013 09:29 AM in Agency
With the end of Google Reader approaching July 1, how many content curators still haven’t decided on a RSS feed reader option? Not as many as you’d think, considering the dearth of articles on the Internet about making a change and the attitude of many content curation junkies like me who have been married to their RSS feed readers and still don’t quite believe Google is abandoning us. But it’s time to find a new tool.
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Posted at June 19, 2013 09:31 AM in Agency
Many of you have seen George Takei in the classic TV enterprise Star Trek (no pun intended). Many of you may have also heard of his burgeoning social media community. With 4.2 million fans on Facebook, Takei is considered one of the most influential social media users in the world. Last week, however, the social media world was flooded with news regarding the predicament with Takei’s Facebook page’s ghostwriter, Polito. Apparently, many of Takei's fans were stricken after realizing that the former Captain Sulu himself was not the man behind the seemingly unending stream of quirky jokes.
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Posted at June 17, 2013 03:34 PM in Agency, Content marketing
It’s old news that businesses should blog. Taking the time to blog positions you as an expert in your field, boosts SEO, increases traffic, and builds trust. It’s the perfect place to share tips, trends, and industry insight, and occasionally brag about your company’s accomplishments. However, if you blog frequently, you will probably run out of topic ideas from time to time. Use these three easy methods to bust through writer’s block and keep your blog fresh.
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Posted at June 14, 2013 10:01 AM in Agency, Marketing strategy
The Harvard Business Review published interesting insights based on conversations with CEOs who were looking for sustainable growth in their companies. Whereas pressure on these CEOs is greater than ever and marketing departments and product R&D teams are feeling the brunt, the secret to sustainable growth might not lie in those on your company payroll.
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Posted at June 12, 2013 04:30 PM in Agency
As a social media marketer and marketing analyst, one of the largest temptations of my job is to cling on to the wide array of metrics available. For example, even though I know that most of the 88 metrics that Facebook Insights provides is probably what many call “fluff,” my analytical demon still tells me to keep them as it might (someday) give me useful insights or trends.
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Posted at June 03, 2013 11:17 AM in Marketing strategy
According to McKinsey & Company's Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum, 50% of B2B marketing spend is misaligned. That's because many B2B marketers are not using the consumer decision journey as their framework for thinking about the buying cycle.  McKinsey's breakthrough research in creating the Consumer Decision Journey has forced marketers to discard the traditional notion of a purchase funnel.  While initially a consumer-based study, the same phenomenon has been validated for business-to-business (B2B) customer decisions -- giving way to the idea of a Customer Decision Journey.
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