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Why CMOs Need to Get Real About the Policy Implications of Big Data
Big data. Just those words alone are enough to send a collective shudder up AND down the spine of CMOs the world over.[read more]
Even More Proof of the Major Disconnect Between Brands and Consumers When It Comes to Social Media
Here's even more proof that brand managers and all marketers are failing to realize the real reason people interact with their brands via social media.[read more]
The Major Disconnect Between Brands and Consumers When It Comes to Social Media
A survey conducted by the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Lithium, a social media tech firm, revealed a huge divide between what marketers think consumers want vs. what consumers really want when it comes to social media.[read more]
In the Social Media and Digital World, Brands Can't Take a Sick Day
There used to be a time when a brand or a company could go a day or even two without responding to customer feedback, you know take a sick day so to speak. Those days are long gone and brands and companies alike better realize that right now.[read more]
Are Fortune 500 Companies Too Busy For Social Media?
According to a study conducted by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth nearly one-third of all Fortune 500 companies are not on the social media bandwagon - at least not the Twitter and Facebook bandwagon.[read more]
CMOs Struggling to Keep Up With the Digital Revolution
In a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,700 chief marketing officers from 64 countries and 19 industries, IBM’s 2011 Global CMO Study revealed that a large portion of CMOs, while excited at all the changes happening in the marketplace - are ill-equipped to deal with and manage it.[read more]
“Google likes to have a balance of good and bad for the viewer to see both sides. This can cause problems when a firm is trying to push down negative comments, threads or articles about their brand as it can appear Google rewards this negative links beyond their true value. However, there are strategies which can push these down.”
“Google+ is still in its infancy, it will certainly be interesting to see how this ends up working, and how artists and industry folk will use this new tool.”