Posted at August 08, 2012 02:59 PM in Agency
Chances are, if your target market is living and human, then your target market is texting, Facebooking, and Googling. Digital and social don’t just apply to advertising. In recent years public relations has gotten with the program too. Customers DVR shows to fast forward through commercials, get their news from information streams instead of aired reports, and have turned their eyes from bus wraps and billboards, downward toward their smartphones’ glowing screens. To be effective, your story can’t stop at the newsstand. As a modern day PR professional, you must push it into the world of the interactive and engage customers to get them thinking and commenting, and eventually, talking and acting.
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Posted at August 06, 2012 09:09 AM in Agency
Social media is about connections and conversations. The most successful online networks make it easy for both businesses and average users to manage both. Twitter keeps conversations fresh and tracks mentions, network, and engagement. Facebook constantly unveils new tools to do the same. From an ROI perspective, most other social media networks had a leg up on Foursquare – at least from a social media manager’s perspective. Sure, you could add your location and post specials, but the network’s two-way conversation capabilities and analytics tools were limited. However, now Foursquare is unveiling a new merchant dashboard that allows social media managers to do more, most notably:
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Posted at August 01, 2012 09:45 AM in Agency
The Internet is vast. One could hardly say that this open, free-flowing network has limited territory, however, what the Internet offers in space, competitors, networkers, and informers occupy with keywords, blogs, and opposing websites. Creating and purchasing a good URL or online address for your company’s website is one of the most important decisions you will make in creating your online identity. A lot of the hot online real estate has already been taken, but there are still plenty of URL possibilities out there waiting for a claim. Think carefully about your business and even if you’re not 100% ready to begin developing a website yet, begin creating and purchasing possible web addresses for your new site now – before all the good ones are gone.
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