Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules (IBM Press) (Paperback)
December 16, 2009 by admin
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“What’s the one thing companies care about? Conversion. Getting potential customers to convert into real, actual, customers. But how do you do that in a world of Facebook, Google, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr? Mike Moran shows you how—by trying lots of little things, studying the results, learning quickly from your failures, and doing it all over again. He gives you a framework for getting over your fears of talking with your customers without a committee to protect your behind. Great book.”
–Robert Scoble
Video blogger of the Scoble Show and Co-author of the top-selling corporate blogging book, Naked Conversations
Start Fast, Fix Fast, and Fix Again: Marketing for Breakthrough Results
For decades, marketers have been taught to carefully plan ahead because “you must get it right–it’s too expensive to change.” But, in the age of the Web, you can know in hours whether your strategy’s working. Today, winners don’t get it right the first time: they start fast, change fast, and relentlessly optimize their way to success. They do it wrong quickly…then fix it, just as quickly!
In this book, Internet marketing pioneer Mike Moran shows you how to do that–step-by-step and in detail. Drawing on his experience building ibm.com into one of the world’s most successful sites, Moran shows how to quickly transition from “plan then execute” to a non-stop cycle of refinement.
You’ll master specific techniques for making the Web’s “two-way marketing conversation” work successfully, productively, and profitably. Next, Moran shows how to choose the right new marketing tools, craft them into an integrated strategy, and execute it…achieving unprecedented efficiency, accountability, speed, and results.
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The indispensable online marketing guide for every CMO, brand marketer, direct marketer, online marketing specialist, strategist, and entrepreneur
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Learn more from your customers–and learn it faster
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Systematically measure online marketing results–and improve them
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Create deeper relationships with your customers on the Web
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Leverage podcasting, social networks, wikis, virtual worlds, search, viral marketing, blogs, and other new tools
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Build a lean, mean conversion machine
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Preview new innovations you’ll be implementing next year and the year after
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Overcome the organizational, political, and personal obstacles that keep marketers doing things the “old-fashioned” way
Foreward xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xxiii
About the Author xxvii
Part 1: That Newfangled Marketing 1
Chapter 1: They’re Doing Wonderful Things with Computers 3
Chapter 2: New Wine in Old Bottles 21
Chapter 3: Marketing Is a Conversation 55
Part 2: That Newfangled Direct Marketing 103
Chapter 4: Going Over to the Dark Side 105
Chapter 5: The New Customer Relations 149
Chapter 6: Customers Vote with Their Mice 211
Part 3: That Newfangled You 253
Chapter 7: This Doesn’t Work for Me 255
Chapter 8: This Won’t Work Where I Work 275
Chapter 9: This Stuff Changes Too Fast 315
Glossary 335
Index 365
About the Author
Mike Moran has worked on the Web since its earliest days, in both marketing and technical roles, including eight years at ibm.com, IBM’s customer-facing Web site. In 2008, Mike retired from IBM to pursue speaking, writing, and consulting, including serving as Chief Strategist for the digital communications agency Converseon.
Mike is also the author of Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules, and he writes regular columns on search marketing for Revenue magazine, WebProNews, and Search Engine Guide. He’s a member of the Search Engine Marketing Council of the Direct Marketing Association and a charter member of the DMA’s Interactive Marketing Advisory Board. Mike is a frequent keynote speaker on Internet marketing at events around the world, serves as a Visiting Lecturer to the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and he holds an Advanced Certificate in Market Management Practice from the Royal UK Charter Institute of Marketing.
Mike also has a broad technical background, with over 20 years experience in search technology working at IBM Research, Lotus, and other IBM software units. He led the product team that developed the first commercial linguistic search engine in 1989 and has been granted four patents in search and retrieval technology. He led the integration of ibm.com’s site search technologies as well as projects in content management, personalization, and web metrics. Mike led the adoption of search marketing at ibm.com back in 2001 and pioneered product search facilities that dramatically raised conversion rates. Mike was named an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2005.
Mike can be reached through his Web site (www.mikemoran.com), which is also the home of his Biznology newsletter and blog.
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (Hardcover)
December 10, 2009 by admin
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Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in
Traditional “outbound” marketing methods like cold-calling, email blasts, advertising, and direct mail are increasingly less effective. People are getting better at blocking these interruptions out using Caller ID, spam protection, TiVo, etc. People are now increasingly turning to Google, social media, and blogs to find products and services. Inbound Marketing helps you take advantage of this change by showing you how to get found by customers online.
Inbound Marketing is a how-to guide to getting found via Google, the blogosphere, and social media sites.
- Improve your rankings in Google to get more traffic
- Build and promote a blog for your business
- Grow and nurture a community in Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.
- Measure what matters and do more of what works online
The rules of marketing have changed, and your business can benefit from this change. Inbound Marketing shows you how to get found by more prospects already looking for what you have to sell.
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Social Media Marketing: How Data Analytics helps to monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising in a Converged Ecosystem (Paperback)
December 4, 2009 by admin
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Social Media Marketing – How Data Analytics helps to monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising in a Converged Ecosystem Social media marketing is a mechanism to interact with a set of online social media conversations from a marketing perspective, based on converged media (since conversations span technologies and media). Social media marketing is measurable via a set of social media metrics. These metrics function as the proverbial ‘air traffic control’ monitoring the domain in almost real time. Based on the data driven dials of this interface, the marketer monitors these many way conversations. Many way conversations take place between the marketer and the participants in a social network – but also amongst the participants themselves. The marketer benchmarks the insights gained from these conversations against a set of transactional data (sales, surveys etc) to monitor and tweak a series of narrowcast (long-tail) campaigns. Thus, instead of having one large ‘broadcast’ campaign – we have many small narrowcast, interactive and ongoing campaigns. The campaigns and conversations are based on a feedback loop, hence they are iterative and form an ongoing learning experience. The extent of social media marketing campaigns include social media advertising, but could also encompass product development, trend monitoring, reducing churn, benchmarking and so on. Specifically, social media marketing can be used as a part of a two stage process: first, to identify certain patterns in data, secondly to verify those observations by specific social media campaigns which also seek permission from the customers. The provider sends personalised messages to the receiver, and over time, the visibility of the participant’s digital footprint grows and leads to better personalization. Therefore, we start with passive digital footprints (based on data patterns) and transition to active digital footprints (based on trust). Data and privacy form the bedrock of this multi-way conversation between the marketer and the participants. Ultimately, we see the participants and the marketer enter into a trusted relationship based on transparency where the participants share data about themselves and entrust the marketer with their data in return for better and personalised services. This book can help you to – * Understand the world of Social media from the perspective of the Web (social media), mobile/telecoms and traditional media * Understand the significance of data within social networks * Work with social media metrics like Alpha users, cost-per-relevant-audience and others * Learn from case studies from enterprises who have successfully used the social media marketing approach * Learn how to deploy social media marketing campaigns * Recognise the growing significance of Privacy in Social media marketing This book would appeal to anyone in the social media, mobile/telecoms and traditional media worlds, as well as to businesses wishing to become involved in Social Media Marketing.
Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business (Kindle Edition)
November 28, 2009 by admin
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“…outstanding book…an intelligent, accessible guide to a new world.” (The Marketer; Chartered Institute of Marketing, October 2007)
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An updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guide to social media for the business community
Marketers must look to the Web for new ways of finding customers and communicating with them, rather than at them. From Facebook and YouTube to blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising new way to reach customers. Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition helps marketers and their companies understand how to engage customers, build customer communities, and maximize profits in a time of marketing confusion. Author and social media guru Larry Weber describes newly available tools and platforms, and shows you how to apply them to see immediate results and growth.
Rather than broadcast messages to audiences, savvy marketers should encourage participation in social networks to which people want to belong, where dialogue with customers, and between customers, can flourish. in Networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even Flickr are the perfect forums for this dialog; this book shows you how to tap into this new media.
In addition to the tools and tactics that made Marketing to the Social Web a critical hit among marketers, this second edition includes three entirely new chapters that cover recent changes in the field. These new chapters describe how Facebook will monetize its business and one day surpass Google; how companies can measure the influence and effectiveness of their social media campaigns; and how marketing to mobile social media will grow into an effective practice in the near future.
Marketing must reach out into new forms, media, and models. Marketing to the Social Web, Second Edition presents an exceptional opportunity to use these new tools and models to reach new markets, even in today’s fragmented media environment.
Larry Weber has spent the last three decades building global communications companies, including Weber Shandwick Worldwide and the W2 Group. He is also the founder and Chairman of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, the nation’s largest interactive advocate association.
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Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide (Paperback)
November 22, 2009 by admin
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“Hands-On Social Marketing demystifies the process of developing and implementing a social marketing campaign. Nedra Kline Weinreich translates the concepts of social marketing into a clear, step-by-step process that almost anyone can follow.”
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“Hands-On Social Marketing demystifies the process of developing and implementing a social marketing campaign. Nedra Kline Weinreich translates the concepts of social marketing into a clear, step-by-step process that almost anyone can follow.”
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Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day (Kindle Edition)
November 19, 2009 by admin
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If the idea of starting a social media marketing campaign overwhelms you, the author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to the basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track results. Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute a social media marketing campaign in just one hour a day. In addition, learn how to integrate social media metrics with traditional media measurements and how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and user-generated content sharing sites like YouTube.
From the Back Cover
Develop an Integrated, Successful Social Media Strategy
A Step-by-Step Guide
Put the buzz about your business to work for you. This comprehensive, perfectly paced guide will teach you how to make social media an active part of your marketing plan so that you can turn customer conversations about your brand, product, service, and company into a sustainable competitive advantage. Learn how you can tap the Social Web and amplify your current marketing efforts by listening and participating in conversations that drive measurable results.
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Develop and effectively pitch a successful social media campaign inside your company
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Learn how to become a genuine Social Web participant
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Build a map of your key conversation-generators as you evaluate every point of contact between you and your customers
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Get to the sweet spot of social media marketing—the consideration phase of the purchase funnel
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Leverage all the tools available—blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, video and photo sharing, and more
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Use social media measurement tools, including the Net Promoter score, and apply metrics from platforms such as Bazaarvoice, BlogPulse, and Cymfony
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Learn best practices for launching your social media program and measuring the results
You’ll also find:
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A comprehensive look from the savvy marketer’s perspective at social sites and services—MySpace, Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Twitter, along with YouTube, Seesmic, Eventful, and FriendFeed
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Straightforward tools for building social media into your current marketing program
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Real-world case studies that illustrate successes to learn from and mistakes to avoid
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Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day (Paperback)
November 13, 2009 by admin
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Product Description
If the idea of starting a social media marketing campaign overwhelms you, the author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to the basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track results. Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute a social media marketing campaign in just one hour a day. In addition, learn how to integrate social media metrics with traditional media measurements and how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and user-generated content sharing sites like YouTube.
From the Back Cover
Develop an Integrated, Successful Social Media Strategy
A Step-by-Step Guide
Put the buzz about your business to work for you. This comprehensive, perfectly paced guide will teach you how to make social media an active part of your marketing plan so that you can turn customer conversations about your brand, product, service, and company into a sustainable competitive advantage. Learn how you can tap the Social Web and amplify your current marketing efforts by listening and participating in conversations that drive measurable results.
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Develop and effectively pitch a successful social media campaign inside your company
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Learn how to become a genuine Social Web participant
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Build a map of your key conversation-generators as you evaluate every point of contact between you and your customers
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Get to the sweet spot of social media marketing—the consideration phase of the purchase funnel
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Leverage all the tools available—blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, video and photo sharing, and more
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Use social media measurement tools, including the Net Promoter score, and apply metrics from platforms such as Bazaarvoice, BlogPulse, and Cymfony
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Learn best practices for launching your social media program and measuring the results
You’ll also find:
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A comprehensive look from the savvy marketer’s perspective at social sites and services—MySpace, Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Twitter, along with YouTube, Seesmic, Eventful, and FriendFeed
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Straightforward tools for building social media into your current marketing program
-
Real-world case studies that illustrate successes to learn from and mistakes to avoid
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Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory (Hardcover)
November 10, 2009 by admin
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I have spent the past 15 years developing and implementing social marketing programs and rarely have I come across manuscripts that better articulate the need and value of what we as social marketers are trying to accomplish. In government the financial resources available to effectively implement public policy is increasingly limited. The authors here CLEARLY MAKE THE CASE FOR SOCIAL MARKETING in this environment and outline the critical contribution we make as practitioners in this field. A MUST READ for anyone whose goals include changing behavior over time — Jane Hazel, MBA, BSc, A/Director General, Marketing & Consultation Directorate, Health Canada
Illustrates a wide variety of social marketing applications. Social marketing has proven its effectiveness, but it remains one of the most under-utilized social change tools in North America and elsewhere. . . . WILL CONVINCE READERS TO CONSIDER SOCIAL MARKETING AS A TOOL TO SOCIAL CHANGE at the individual as well as the community level — Sameer Deshpande, Assistant Professor, Marketing, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Timely. . . . One of the most VALUABLE contributions of the book is the set of papers that look specifically at how an organization adopts social marketing approaches and builds its future capacity to do so. Examples include the World Anti-Doping Agency concerned with a specific problem–doping in sports–as well as an agency focused on the public health system of the state of North Carolina. The examples illustrate what works and what is still missing in each environment and will provide readers interested in diffusing social marketing in the future with MANY VALUABLE INSIGHTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACTION — Alan R. Andreasen, PhD, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Product Description
Learn what marketing practices can positively impact behavior
The success of the application of commercial marketing practices to change behavior for the betterment of society and the individual is getting more attention. Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory explores the use of social marketing through a variety of effective approaches. Chapters examine case studies and qualitative research to gain insight into the adoption of marketing practices to enable social change. This superb collection of top presentations from the SMART (Social Marketing Advances in Research and Theory) inaugural conference held in 2004 in Alberta, Canada provides examples of the latest commercial marketing practices to change behavior such as programs to encourage people to quit smoking or increase seat belt usage.
Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory presents top experts who provide a wide variety of specific examples explaining ways to enable social marketing to positively impact behavior. This helpful resource provides a broad, useful understanding of this unique type of marketing and its goals. Chapters offer extensive references and detailed tables and figures to clearly present data.
Topics in Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory include:
a case study on approaches to anti-doping behavior in sports
a case study reviewing the evolution of the Canadian Heritage anti-racism campaign
applying social marketing concepts to increase capacity of programs in a state health department
research into a recycling promotion technique
using Internet technology to study the impact of anti-smoking messages
issues involved in the voluntary change in behavior of automobile users
charity support behaviors
Social Marketing: Advances in Research and Theory is an insightful resource valuable to academics and practitioners interested in social marketing, or anyone working with nonprofits to change individual behavior and better society.
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Marketing Social Change: Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development, and the Environment (Kindle Edition)
November 7, 2009 by admin
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Thsi important book offers a revolutionary approach to solving a range of social problems–drug use, smoking, unsafe sex, and overpopulation–by applying marketing techniques and concepts to change behavior. For example, it shows that at-risk teenagers are consumers who decide whether or not to “buy” safe sex practices. This successful approach is based on Alan R. Andreasen’s more than twenty years’ experience of consulting, teaching, and research with social marketing programs around the world.
Andreasen shows that effective social change starts with a thorough understanding of the needs, wants, and perceptions of the target consumer–who has ultimate control over the outcomes. The book offers a detailed explanation of how to design a step-by-step program that will move the customer from ignorance and indifference to action and ultimately maintenance of that action. Marketing Social Change offers a wealth of information for developing an effective social marketing plan.
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The world is faced with a daunting array of social problems and has limited resources with which to combat them. As many as five million children, who live in countries scattered around the globe, die each year from diseases and infections such as malaria, tetanus, and measles. Why must these innocent children die from diseases that we know how to cure? Marketing Social Change offers a revolutionary approach to solving a range of social problems—drug use, smoking, unsafe sex, and overpopulation—by applying marketing techniques and concepts to change behavior. For example, it shows that at-risk teenagers are consumers who decide whether or not to “buy” safe sex practices. This successful approach is based on Alan R. Andreasen’s more than twenty years’ experience of consulting, teaching, and research with social marketing programs around the world. In this important book, Andreasen shows that effective social change starts with a thorough understanding of the needs, wants, and perceptions of the target consumer—who has ultimate control over the outcomes. The book offers a detailed explanation of how to design a step-by-step program that will move the customer from ignorance and indifference to action and ultimately maintenance of that action. Marketing Social Change offers a wealth of information for developing an effective social marketing plan.This valuable resource book offers public health officials, social service agencies, educators, students, and health care and nonprofit professionals a state-of-the-art approach to marketing social behavioral change.
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The New Language of Marketing 2.0: How to Use ANGELS to Energize Your Market (Paperback)
November 4, 2009 by admin
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“If you are trying to grow revenue at your company, The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will be invaluable. The book provides methods and successful practices to develop new leads as well as increase opportunities to excel with existing customers.’’
–Lauren Flaherty, CMO, Nortel
“The New Language of Marketing 2.0 has captured the essence of the next generation of marketing. The use of experience and personalization in technology to provide a competitive edge to marketing is groundbreaking. The book provides a myriad of case studies and examples to illustrate application of the best practices they advocate.”
–Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, and Adjunct Professor, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College
“The future of marketing is The New Language of Marketing 2.0. IBM charts the course for setting the right strategies, finding the best leads, and securing business for years to come.”
–Ray Hammond, author, The World in 2030
“Once in a while a book comes along that captures the essence of what is going on now and where the market is headed. This book does exactly that for marketing, and makes the ideas ‘real’ with a great variety of case studies.”
–Dan Baum, CEO, DBC PR+New Media
“Innovation and technology drive today’s competitive advantage. Using both in marketing techniques can help you turn your marketing from a whisper to a scream. Using the case study method, Sandy’s book shows you how!”
–Lynda M. Applegate, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
“Many books tell marketers what to do, but this one shows them. With the changes now sweeping marketing, global marketers should not ignore the real-life examples and rich case studies in this resource.”
–Mike Moran, coauthor, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., and author, Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules
“B2B marketers learning from B2C marketers and vice versa is a critical best practice. With more than 50 case studies, this book embodies the mandate to explore, learn, and grow from best practices around the world. This is a must read for marketers and business owners alike.”
–Karen Vogel, Founder and President, The Women’s Congress
“To succeed in this rapidly changing environment, businesses must adapt their marketing strategies accordingly. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 provides practical, proven, and prescient tools to do exactly that.”
–Dr. Steve Moxey, Research Fellow, High-Tech Marketing, Manchester Business School
“I loved the customer examples. They gave me a number of ideas of how a company might expand its marketing portfolio by better leveraging the new social media world.”
–Ron Williams, Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“This is a great collection of cutting edge marketing and insightful case studies. It offers the latest thinking in the field of marketing, showing you how to take advantage of the new world of Web 2.0 thinking.”
–Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer, AMD
“If you are trying to shift the focus of your business to better serve and retain your customers, part of that must be the new Web 2.0 marketing strategies and learn how to be part of the conversation. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will help you find a way to combine your vision for the future with creative approaches.”
–Mike Lackey, President, AIT Global and Special Advisor to the Executive Director for the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development
“The New Language of Marketing 2.0 makes sense of new media vessels such as virtual worlds, blogging, wikis, social networking communities, and gaming and clearly describes how these new vessels can work for us.”
–Jennifer McClure, Executive Director, Society for New Communications Research
“The goalposts may not have moved–business goals remain fairly constant–but the field of play is completely different. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 is your playbook to outmaneuver, outscore, and consistently beat your competition.”
–Betty Spence, Ph.D., President, NAFE
“IBM’s marketing of SOA is a best practice. IBM’s ability to focus on how customers can get started and providing education and guidance is tremendous. There is a lot to learn from the IBM team in B2B marketing.”
–Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO, Hurwitz and Associates, and coauthor, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies
“The landscape has changed, and new techniques leveraging Web 2.0 have changed the dialogue in the marketplace. Those who learn these global and dynamic dialogues fastest will drive growth. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 teaches you how with more than 25 case studies.’’
–Don Tapscott, coauthor, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
“Today’s business environment is completely different: interaction, communication, and information exchange have expanded to include virtual worlds, wikis, blogging, gaming, and online communities. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will provide insight into how to adapt your marketing strategies to engage your customers where they really are, and where they are going to be tomorrow.”
–Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman, WITI (Women in Technology International)
“This book doesn’t just ‘tell’ how to achieve success in the new Marketing 2.0 world: it shows how. Sandy has done breakthrough work with her team, and is sharing best practices. Not only does this book guide the reader to the next level of business development, it provides case studies that begin to bring the future of marketing into focus.”
–Rod Baptie, Managing Director, Baptie and Co., Ltd.
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“Marketing has entered a new era of rapid advance. Those unwilling to experiment with new combinations of traditional and internet marketing will be left behind.”
—Chris Trimble, Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Coauthor, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
“It’s no secret that business has been changing dramatically over the last decade. To succeed in this rapidly changing environment, businesses must adapt their marketing strategies accordingly—The New Language of Marketing 2.0 provides practical, proven, and prescient tools to do exactly that.”
—Dr. Steve Moxey, Research Fellow, High-Tech Marketing, Manchester Business School
“Most U.S. marketers mistakenly think ‘going global’ is just a matter of translating your promotional materials into different languages and widening your media buys. Packed with real-life examples, this new book amply demonstrates that successful global marketing is actually all about local marketing. Learn how to give a local spin within each regional marketplace for global success.”
—Anne Holland, Founder, MarketingSherpa Inc
Use ANGELS and Web 2.0 Marketing to Drive Powerful, Quantifiable Results
For every marketer, strategist, executive, and entrepreneur
Today, marketers have an array of radically new Web 2.0-based techniques at their disposal: viral marketing, social networking, virtual worlds, widgets, Web communities, blogs, podcasts, and next-generation search, to name just a few. Now, leading IBM marketing innovator Sandy Carter introduces ANGELS, a start-to-finish framework for choosing the right Web 2.0 marketing tools—and using them to maximize revenue and profitability.
Carter demonstrates winning Web 2.0 marketing at work through 54 brand-new case studies: organizations ranging from Staples to Harley Davidson, Coca-Cola to Mentos, Nortel to IBM itself. You’ll discover powerful new ways to market brands and products in both B2B and B2C markets…integrate Web 2.0, experiential, and conventional marketing…maximize synergies between global and local marketing…gain more value from influencers, and more.
Includes information, case studies, and working examples for next generation marketing strategies such as:
• Social networks with virtual environments, including Second Life
• Online communities including Facebook
• Viral Marketing and eNurturing
• Serious Gaming
• Widgets
• Wikis
• Blogging, including Twitter
• RSS
• Podcasting
• Videocasting
Whether you’re a marketing professional, Web specialist, strategist, executive, or entrepreneur, this book will help you drive immense, quantifiable value from Web 2.0 technologies—now, and for years to come.
Sandy Carter’s breakthrough ANGELS approach, a step-by-step framework for success:
Analyze and ensure strong market understanding
Nail the relevant strategy and story
Go to Market Plan
Energize the channel and community
Leads and revenue
Scream!!! Don’t forget the Technology!
BONUS Content Available Online:
Additional chapters, case studies, examples, and resources are available on the book companion site, ibmpressbooks.com/angels.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
A: Analyze Here, There, and Everywhere
Chapter 1: Listening and Analyzing in the Global World
Chapter 2: Segmentation in Action: The Nortel Case
Chapter 3: Globalization: Lenovo, Google, Unilever, and IBM
N: Nail the Strategy
Chapter 4: Fish Where the Fish Are and Use the Right Bait
Chapter 5: Relevance and Roles: Forrester Research
Chapter 6: Lightly Branded: EepyBird, The Coca-Cola Company, and Mentos
Chapter 7: Corporate Social Responsibility: IBM’s Project Green and Marks & Spencer
G: Go-to-Market
Chapter 8: Break Through the Noise
Chapter 9: Influencer Value: The IBM Case Study
E: Energize the Ecosystem and Market
Chapter 10: The New Vessels
Chapter 11: Energize the Channel with Communities: OMG, Adobe and Rubicon Consulting, and Harley-Davidson
Chapter 12: Virtual Environments: The Coca-Cola Company and IBM
Chapter 13: Widgets: The Use of Widgets at IBM
Chapter 14: Blogs: Midwest Airlines and IBM
Chapter 15: Serious Gaming: IBM’s Innov8
L: Leads and Revenue
Chapter 16: Show Me the Money: A Discussion with Google, the Marketing Leadership Council, and MarketingNPV
Chapter 17: Innovation, Engagement, and Business Results: adidas Group, ConAgra Foods, and Tellabs
Chapter 18: Marketing Dashboards: IBM Cognos
S: Scream Through Technology
Chapter 19: Screaming World Changes
Chapter 20: Technology Matters: IBM, Staples, Dell, and MyVirtualModel
Putting It All Together
Chapter 21: End-to-End Example: IBM WebSphere and the SOA Agenda, Prolifics, and Ascendant Technology
Chapter 22: The Top 10 Don’ts and the Marketing Organization of the Future
The following materials can be found on the companion Web site at ibmpressbooks com/angels:
Online 1: Relationship and Word of Mouth: Rackspace
Online 2: Personal Branding
Online 3: National Environmental Policy Act
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Facebook and Twitter 101 Training
October 29, 2009 by admin
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Product Description
Facebook is a social networking website that helps people reconnect with past colleagues and find new business opportunities. Facebook has evolved into a unique and powerful business tool. Users can share links to their work, learn more about their customers, and promote upcoming events. Facebook is an invaluable resource for professionals who wish to stay current with today’s evolving business world.
Twitter may be the hottest web property on the block, but its more than a toy and is not just for technological early adopters. A marketing and PR dream, Twitter can be one of the most effective communication vehicles a brand can ever engage with. Join the conversation happening now.
These ZIO Pro crash courses, will introduce you to this critical online community. We’ll show you how to create an account and control the network’s most popular functions, all inside 60 minutes.
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Public Health Branding: Applying marketing for social change (Paperback)
September 14, 2009 by admin
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Brands are designed to build relationships between consumers and the products, services, or organizations they represent by providing added value to their objects. Through brand promotion, consumers form associations with brands, which can become established and lead to a long-term relationship between the product, service or organization and consumer. Similarly, public health brands are the associations that individuals hold for health behaviours or lifestyles. Public health branding – building positive associations with healthy behaviours and lifestyle choices – is the primary strategy by which commercial marketing is applied in health communication and social marketing.
This book examines theory and best practices of branding and its application in public health programs. Through a series of reviews and case studies, the book argues that branding is an emerging public health strategy that needs resources and continued development of innovative methodologies to effect lasting population-level change. In recent years, public health branding has been successfully applied across a wide range of chronic and infectious disease issues and behaviors – from tobacco control to HIV/AIDS – and globally across the developed and developing world. Branding is an important strategy for public health because it can address multiple behaviours simultaneously, and most health risks stem from multiple behaviours and complex lifestyle choices. Promoting healthy lifestyles is the key outcome for public health, thus making the development of improved branding strategies a critical objective for the field.
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W Douglas Evans serves as Vice President of RTI’s Public Health and Environment Division. Dr Evans has 16 years of experience in prevention research and program evaluation, social marketing and communications research. He has designed numerous large-scale evaluations and intervention research studies and has extensive experience evaluating behaviour change and public education intervention programs designed to communicate science-based information to diverse audiences. He has published extensively on media influences on health risk behaviour, including the effects of social marketing on behaviour change. Dr Evans has published widely in peer-reviewed journals such as the British Medical Journal, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Health Psychology, Journal of Health Communication, and many others. He has worked extensively in the public health subject areas of tobacco control; nutrition, physical activity, and obesity; and reproductive health. Gerard Hastings is the first UK Professor of Social Marketing and founder/director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research. He researches the applicability of marketing principles such as consumer orientation and relationship building to the solution of health and social problems. He also conducts critical marketing research into the impact of potentially health damaging marketing, such as tobacco advertising and fast food promotion. He teaches and writes on these subjects both in the UK, where he has run Masters and Honours level programmes, and internationally in North America, South East Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He has published over eighty refereed papers in major journals. He is an expert witness in litigation against the tobacco industry, Chairs the Advisory Board of the EC’s HELP campaign, and is a regular advisor to the World Health Organisation, and the Scottish, UK and European Parliaments.
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Marketing Social Change: Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development, and the Environment (Hardcover)
September 5, 2009 by admin
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Thsi important book offers a revolutionary approach to solving a range of social problems–drug use, smoking, unsafe sex, and overpopulation–by applying marketing techniques and concepts to change behavior. For example, it shows that at-risk teenagers are consumers who decide whether or not to “buy” safe sex practices. This successful approach is based on Alan R. Andreasen’s more than twenty years’ experience of consulting, teaching, and research with social marketing programs around the world.
Andreasen shows that effective social change starts with a thorough understanding of the needs, wants, and perceptions of the target consumer–who has ultimate control over the outcomes. The book offers a detailed explanation of how to design a step-by-step program that will move the customer from ignorance and indifference to action and ultimately maintenance of that action. Marketing Social Change offers a wealth of information for developing an effective social marketing plan.
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The world is faced with a daunting array of social problems and has limited resources with which to combat them. As many as five million children, who live in countries scattered around the globe, die each year from diseases and infections such as malaria, tetanus, and measles. Why must these innocent children die from diseases that we know how to cure? Marketing Social Change offers a revolutionary approach to solving a range of social problems—drug use, smoking, unsafe sex, and overpopulation—by applying marketing techniques and concepts to change behavior. For example, it shows that at-risk teenagers are consumers who decide whether or not to “buy” safe sex practices. This successful approach is based on Alan R. Andreasen’s more than twenty years’ experience of consulting, teaching, and research with social marketing programs around the world. In this important book, Andreasen shows that effective social change starts with a thorough understanding of the needs, wants, and perceptions of the target consumer—who has ultimate control over the outcomes. The book offers a detailed explanation of how to design a step-by-step program that will move the customer from ignorance and indifference to action and ultimately maintenance of that action. Marketing Social Change offers a wealth of information for developing an effective social marketing plan.This valuable resource book offers public health officials, social service agencies, educators, students, and health care and nonprofit professionals a state-of-the-art approach to marketing social behavioral change.
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Advertising 2.0: Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.0 World (Kindle Edition)
August 27, 2009 by admin
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Review
“This remarkable book will be a milestone for all marketers, educators and communicators who still ask the fundamental question: how can we connect with consumers today? For the first time, a smart, clear and essential guide to the changing habits and digital needs of contemporary audiences. It is a must-read for all of our staff.”–Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications, Co-author of Business Inside Out;>
“Dr. Tracy Tuten’s book provides an invaluable overview of the complex social inner workings of the virtual world environment. She offers an array of case studies from leading edge marketers in the space that give the reader key insights into how to navigate these worlds as a thoughtful, inclusive marketing participant.”–Ellen Kolsto, Senior Marketplace Planner, GSD&M Idea City;>
“Tracy has taken the hot topics today–social networking, blogging, mobility-and approached them with an analytical mind. Few people can provide more clarity and substance to these trends than Tracy.”–Kristen Cavallo, Director of Development, The Martin Agency;>
“From ‘word-of-mouse’ to the latest on social network advertising, this book impressively captures the exciting scope of marketing in and to an online world. It has all the right tools for understanding the psychology behind consumer choices as well as the depth of challenges faced by today’s advertisers.”–Nina Lentini, Editor of MediaPost’s Marketing Daily;>
Book Description
Professor and advertising pro Tracy L. Tuten shows old-line marketers how to take advantage of the newfangled concepts and tools Web 2.0 enables.
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Social Marketing: Improving the Quality of Life (Paperback)
August 21, 2009 by admin
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From Publishers Weekly
The author of this detailed primer take a no-nonsense approach to social change, arguing that marketing strategy will determine the outcome of any campaign, whether its goal is to reduce alcoholism or cigarette smoking, encourage family planning, improve dietary habits or promote environmental protection. Such efforts are analyzed here in terms of product-market fit, positioning, distribution channels, mobilization of influence groups, and so forth. Mini-case histories sprinkled throughout cover a wide spectrum, from Amnesty International’s support for prisoner’s rights and Project Head Start’s health services to preschoolers, to the TV series Sesame Street’ s promotion of literacy, and campaigns for AIDS prevention, energy conservation and combating teenage pregnancy. This textbook-like guide by two marketing professors (Kotler is at Northwestern, Roberto teaches in Manila) also focuses on direct mail, mass media, developing a marketing plan and program evaluation. A book for professionals, this is unlikely to interest general readers.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
Social Marketing: Improving the Quality of Life, is the indispensable companion for leaders in all three sectors who recognize that social marketing is a leadership imperative. Philip Kotlers great new book moves us to a higher level of understanding and performance. It is superb.
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Social Marketing in the 21st Century (Paperback)
August 12, 2009 by admin
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Review
“Andreasen’s book finally bridges upstream and downstream approaches to social change and takes a “both-and” approach rather than either-or…The variety of examples throughout the book makes the text come alive… It is a richly referenced book that is clear and presents some complex concepts in an easy to understand way… I would absolutely consider adopting this text!” (Mike Newton-Ward )
“Andreasen makes an inspiring case for taking the traditional social marketing model to new markets in order to influence more rapid and sustainable social change, as well as to ensure a longer life cycle for the social marketing brand… I am certain I will use it as material for a course and for seminars.” (Nancy Lee, MBA )
“This succinct volume provides a well-written explanation of social marketing and its application to social problems, the role of agenda setting and framing in interpreting social data, and three simple models for influencing behavior change. Academicians in disciplines related to behavioral therapy, communication, health care, marketing, and social change as well as practitioners in social marketing, public relations and counseling will find this book interesting reading and a valuable, heuristic resource.” (J. L. Allen )
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The goal of this cutting edge book is to reposition social marketing so that foundations, government agencies, and various nonprofits will approach social change in a way that reaches both upstream and downstream individuals in society. Author Alan R. Andreasen outlines potential roles, restates fundamental principles, and then suggests how social marketing might be applied to a sample of nontraditional challenges. ![]()
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Social Media Is A Cocktail Party: Why You Already Know The Rules Of Social Media Marketing (Paperback)
August 3, 2009 by admin
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Review
“Corporate marketers charging into the unfamiliar waters of social media can have the same effect as crashing a cocktail party uninvited and uninformed about rules, etiquette and people–thereby alienating the very communities they’re trying to reach.
That’s why “Social Media is a Cocktail Party” is such a useful paradigm for understanding how best to understand the strategy and tactics for marketing on the social web.
Jim Tobin and Lisa Braziel have crafted a clever and insightful guide with practical examples that give meaning and direction for smart social media programs. It’s a must read for marketers and PR professionals of all sizes.” –Lee Odden, CEO of TopRankMarketing.com (from the back cover)
Review
“You have an open invite to join the social media Cocktail Party. Before you show up, you must buy this book so you’ll know how to enter the room, join the conversation, and engage your audience.”
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Social Media Optimization by Traffic Ninjas (1 month)
July 22, 2009 by admin
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Advertising 2.0: Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.0 World (Paperback)
July 13, 2009 by admin
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Review
“This remarkable book will be a milestone for all marketers, educators and communicators who still ask the fundamental question: how can we connect with consumers today? For the first time, a smart, clear and essential guide to the changing habits and digital needs of contemporary audiences. It is a must-read for all of our staff.”–Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications, Co-author of Business Inside Out;>
“Dr. Tracy Tuten’s book provides an invaluable overview of the complex social inner workings of the virtual world environment. She offers an array of case studies from leading edge marketers in the space that give the reader key insights into how to navigate these worlds as a thoughtful, inclusive marketing participant.”–Ellen Kolsto, Senior Marketplace Planner, GSD&M Idea City;>
“Tracy has taken the hot topics today–social networking, blogging, mobility-and approached them with an analytical mind. Few people can provide more clarity and substance to these trends than Tracy.”–Kristen Cavallo, Director of Development, The Martin Agency;>
“From ‘word-of-mouse’ to the latest on social network advertising, this book impressively captures the exciting scope of marketing in and to an online world. It has all the right tools for understanding the psychology behind consumer choices as well as the depth of challenges faced by today’s advertisers.”–Nina Lentini, Editor of MediaPost’s Marketing Daily;>
Book Description
Professor and advertising pro Tracy L. Tuten shows old-line marketers how to take advantage of the newfangled concepts and tools Web 2.0 enables.
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Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good (Paperback)
July 4, 2009 by admin
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Review
“Social Marketing is a must addition to general and undergraduate collections and a welcome addition to graduate, faculty, and practitioner libraries.” (N.E. Furlow Choice Magazine )
“Highly educative read.” (Business Line Business Line )
Product Description
A systematic guide for the planning and implementation of programs designed to bring about social change
Social Marketing, Third Edition, is a valuable resource that uses concepts from commercial marketing to influence social action. It provides a solid foundation of fundamental marketing principles and techniques then expands on them to illustrate principles and techniques specific to practitioners and agencies with missions to enhance public health, prevent injuries, protect the environment, and motivate community involvement.
New to the Third Edition
- Features many updated cases and includes current marketing and research highlights
- Increases focus on international cases and examples
- Provides updated theory and principles throughout
Intended Audience: Recognized as the definitive textbook on Social Marketing for students majoring in public health, public administration, public affairs, environmental studies, and business, this book also serves as an ongoing reference and resource for practitioners.
Contributors
Alan Andreasen Georgetown University, Foreword
Carol Bryant University of South Florida, “VERBÔ Summer Scorecard”
Carol Cone Cone LLC, “Go Red for Women”
Robert Denniston Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Above the Influence: A National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign”
Rob Donovan Curtin University, Western Australia, “Freedom From Fear: Targeting Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence”
Sue Eastgard Youth Suicide Prevention Center, “Youth Suicide Prevention”
Jeff French National Social Marketing Centre, “Marketing Social Marketing in England”
Gerard Hastings Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, UK, “A Fat Chance Pays Off”
Steven Honeyman Population Services International, “Social Franchising of Family Planning Service Delivery: A Rising Sun in Nepal.”
Francois Lagarde Social Marketing Consultant, “E-Health Network in Canton Switzerland”
Jim Lindenberger University of South Florida, “USDA Food Stamp Media Campaign”
Lynne D. Lotenberg Social Marketing Consultant, “Using Storytelling to Deliver Health Messages in Rwanda”
Doug McKenzie-Mohr Environmental Psychologist, “Turn It Off: Canada’s Anti-Idling
Campaign”
Patricia McLaughlin American Legacy Foundation, “truth® Campaign”
Jim Mintz Centre of Excellence for Public Sector Marketing, “Is Your Family Prepared?”, Public Safety Canada
Gregory R. Niblett AED, “Jordan Water Efficiency Program”
Bill Novelli AARP, “Don’t Vote: Until You Know Where theCandidate Stands”
Michael Rothschild University of Wisconsin, “Road Crew: Reducing Alcohol Impaired Driving”
Beverly Schwartz Ashoka, “USDA Food Stamp Media Campaign”
William A. Smith AED, “Save the crabs. Then eat ‘em.”
Shelly Spoeth Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “African-American Women HIV Testing Campaign”
K. Vijaya Health Promotion Board, Singapore, “Recognition & Rewards Program for Healthier Eating Establishments”
Pete Webb Pacific Consulting Group, “Improving Service Delivery at the IRS.”
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Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business! (Paperback)
June 28, 2009 by admin
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Review
“Paul puts social media into plain old ordinary terms. As a consultant serving the real estate and construction industries, I highly recommend this book. It’s easy to read and offers a mountain of useful information.” —John P. Kreiss, president and CEO, MorganSullivan, Inc.
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Twitter Must Read
June 19, 2009 by admin
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It seems that many people can’t get enough of Twitter. They are always talking about it, online and offline. Through Twitter, you can build a large network of friends, clients, associates, and customers. This is a must read for those who are new in this social network website.
When you use twitter, you can create your personal brand or dominate a certain niche. How can you achieve this?
Once you create your own profile page, the very first thing that you need to do is get ‘followers’. If you have friends or relatives who are already in Twitter, invite them. This may not be of great help to you especially if you’re trying to promote your business but if you’re simply making new friends and want to stay connected, this is a good start. For business persons, you need to follow ‘gurus’ or the powerful users of Twitter. You must know what they’re doing in order to ensure success in Twitter marketing.
The second thing that you need to do is to meet more people. ‘ReTweets’ are great for making new friends. In this tool, the original message is repeated. Whenever you receive a message or tweet, reply as soon as you receive them. So even if you receive dozens of tweets from your followers, you need to reply to them patiently. You will never go tired of using Twitter and as what other users claim – Twitter is addicting.
Once you use the social site, you can’t get enough of it. When you sit down to answer the tweets or messages, you will hardly notice how time pass by. Some individuals spend hours and hours online twittering. You can also do the same but you must have a fast internet connection. Look for helpful tools that you can use to create memorable Twitter experiences.
The profile page is very important to attract more followers. A dull profile will not be fruitful. You must make your profile as interesting as possible. It should also suit your purpose for using the site. If it’s for business purposes, you must create a powerful and intriguing page. It must tell something about the product or service you’re marketing. Even if you want to make friends, your page should still be interesting.
Use the Twitter tools available so that you can have one of the most attractive pages; that way, when someone visits your profile page, they will want to be friends with you. When you get their attention, they will continue to follow you. Appreciate all your followers so that you can develop stronger relationships. Having friends from different parts of the world is truly exciting.
If you can’t stay online often, you should set the settings properly so that you can receive the tweets on your mobile device. You can now reply to the tweets using your mobile device. So you see, twittering is possible anywhere at any time. You can enjoy twittering during your coffee or lunch breaks or when you’re out shopping. You can tell others what you’re doing and where you are if you want to.
Always stay connected and don’t forget to post tweets regularly. If you want others to feel your presence, Twitter everyday; soon you will be one of the twitter addicts out there. Read this and you won’t regret it.
Common Mistakes on Twitter
June 12, 2009 by admin
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Twitter is an exciting, cool, and extremely profitable social network site. Millions of people are now using the site to talk about various subjects. Indeed, it is a micro-blogging site for those who can’t stop talking. There are also common mistakes that most new users commit on Twitter. Before you start sending tweets, you must be aware of these common mistakes.
Mistake number 1 – the picture on your avatar is not yours. Most new users don’t post their real picture. They often use cartoon pictures, company logos, or their pet’s pictures. Although the pictures are quite cute, most Twitter users will appreciate a real picture of you. When you post your true picture on Avatar, others will think that you’re real and that you’re confident enough to let others see you. If you’re going to upload a photo, choose the ones where you give a beautiful smile. A smile can easily brighten the day of others.
Sending direct messages automatically through the AutoDM; direct messages are often impersonal and pushy. If you send this type of messages, you can lose your followers. TweetLater is another tool that sends automatic messages. When you use these tools, messages are automatically sent to those who follow you. A message saying ‘thanks for following me’ is fine but sending automated messages promoting your business or product is not a good idea and most people will just frown at them.
Do you have any followers? If you want to have followers, you need to follow people or you can at least create an interesting profile page. You can get followers by regularly posting updates. If you keep on following people and yet you don’t make updates on your page, you can’t get enough followers.
The 140-character tweets should be used to answer the Twitter question. Answering that question once a day may be enough to let others know that you’re interested in the community. You can post what you’re doing for the day or where you plan to go for the night. Tweets are great for starting conversations. You can also re-tweet other users or send them comments.
Check your numbers regularly. It’s not good to follow many people when you have very few individuals following you. Try to achieve balance. Make sure that the one you follow will also follow you back and you should also appreciate the ones who follow you. This is the easiest way to make friends on Twitter.
Use tools like Tweetdeck so that you don’t need to stay online all the time. Through this application, you can divide your followers into groups. Now, you can easily track them especially when they send direct messages and replies.
If you keep on promoting your business all the time, everyone will ‘unfollow’ you. No one likes a person who talks about his business or product most of the time. You must learn to respect others. As you may have forgotten, Twitter is a social network.
You must learn how to communicate and build good relationships before you start bombarding them with promotions. Even if you already have a god list of leads, it is still not a good idea to barrage them with promotions. Promotional tweets should be sent in limited numbers only.
These are the common mistakes committed by new and old tweeters. Take note of them and don’t commit the same mistakes.
Twitter or Blogging
April 17, 2009 by admin
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Most Twitter users still don’t know the basics of the site. You don’t need to choose between Twitter and blogging because the social network is considered a micro-blogging site as well. You can blog about anything as long as you consume the 140- characters. The short blogs are more personal and you can post anything.
What can you do on Twitter? Once you’ve created your own profile page, you can now post blogs. You can do it every minute, every hour, or a few times everyday. You can also follow bloggers and other users, create conversations by replying to the tweets sent to you. Through constant conversation, you can easily build good relationships. You don’t need to log to the Twitter site all the time because you can also receive and reply tweets through your IM or mobile phone.
However, there are also bad points in using Twitter. Your blogs will be limited to only 140 characters. For those who want to post longer blogs, Twitter is not for you. You must also use the code provided in giving replies.
Many new users commit certain mistakes in using Twitter. Some of them don’t use real pictures, they send too many impersonal tweets, they use AutoDM wrongly, they spam, etc; don’t commit these mistakes so that you can have more fun in using the social network site.
If you don’t want to get bored, you should find friends on Twitter and get as many followers as possible. If you can find friends, try to encourage your friends to join so that you can start using the site. It’s very easy to join and it’s free. Now, you can send tweets at any time of the day.
For a more memorable Twitter experience, you can add Twitter to your browser so that when you see it, you will use it most of the time. Try to post useful tips and interesting articles. Reply to the messages you receive. If you simply give some of your precious time in sending tweets and in communicating with your followers, you will have a great time using Twitter. You can also add Google Talk so that you can follow your friends and check on your followers even without opening your browser. You can also post replies and new tweets through the Google Talk.
Micro-blogging is for people who want to write short blogs. Blogs are usually long and in Twitter, you will only write very short blogs. It is more personal and you can let everyone know what you’re doing. If you want, you can also post beautiful and carefully-researched tweets. There are also those who join Twitter to conduct online marketing. Well, whatever your reasons are, you’re free to use the site.
Aside from blogging, Twitter is also for social messaging. Its’ very easy to type status updates. You can follow as many individuals as you like and you can also maintain many followers. You can interact with them online or through your mobile device. There are also small groups on Twitter that helps you in coordinating activities or events especially if some of your friends or followers are from the same area.
All in all, Twitter is a business instrument, social messaging, micro-blogging, reporting service, and marketing utility. Twitter or blogging? Well, it doesn’t really matter. Everything you want is in Twitter.

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