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Internet marketing strategy trends and observations in the San Francisco Bay Area
As written for Technorati It’s not uncommon to hear the argument, “B2B sales are done in person.” That same sentiment is often paired with “social is for B2C,” or “email is B2C.” But, at this week’s Connections 2012 Conference in Indiana, another story is being told by an unlikely source: Volvo Construction Equipment. I’m talking excavators, pipelayers, and […]
As written for Business2Community I had the pleasure of being at the Social Media Strategies Summit last week in San Francisco. The guys at GSMI do conferences well–they balance theory with case studies and practical training. One such training session entitled “Facebook Advertising Best Practices,” was led by the co-founder of local start up with a whole lot of […]
As published in Business2Community A study released by Martini Media today reports agency executives estimate that 37 percent of mass marketers’ branding dollars are spent in digital marketing (online display, video, mobile), whereas only 31 percent of luxury marketers’ budgets are spent in that space. At the same time, research indicates that trend shifting in […]
GIFs. I was using them a lot in ’06 on my MySpace, but hadn’t thought about it much since. As it turns out, the image format turned 25 years old recently, and the “grown up” GIF is enjoying a resurgence of popularity. The GIF’s new notoriety is partly the result of faster computers and improved bandwidth, paired with popularity […]
Article first written for and published as The World’s First Customer Search Engine – Interview with Mintigo CEO, Jacob Shama on Technorati. The proliferation of social media and content marketing strategy has introduced a wealth of valuable data that has immense potential to improve sales campaigns. But marketers have a hard time getting to, and using this […]
Article first published as Digital Marketing Gets a Boost With Big Data on Technorati. Co-authored by Dave Scott In case you haven’t heard, Big Data is now going mainstream, moving from the supercomputing environment to enterprise IT applications. For digital marketers and advertisers in particular, the benefits of bringing Big Data mainstream are unmistakable: They now have […]
As published on Social Media Today One of the things to expect to takeaway from a solid social media conference is the knowledge of what works in market practice. A good assemblance of industry talent almost always includes a sharing of what successful strategies brands, agencies and marketers do in social channels. With a speaker […]
Article first published as The Cure for Writer’s Block – Interview with Gregg Freishtat, CEO of Scribit on Technorati. Inbound Marketing Today, more than ever, empowered consumers can choose what they read, watch, and share. The pace of U.S. life is fast, there’s an abundance of new media to entertain us, and we now have the technology […]