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The Engagement Effect (For Digital Marketers)

Ben Franklin once wrote, “Tell me and I’ll forget.   Show me and I might remember.   Involve me and I will understand.”   This was proven in a recent Harvard Business School study that showed that a client or prospect...
Posted May 14, 2012 with 598 views     

Infographic: The Year of the Enterprise Tablet

Corporations are facing a challenge to change. In the midst of external pressure to follow the trend and internal demand to integrate tablets into the enterprise’s ecosystem, there will be a shift in the enterprise tablet market. The enterprise...
Posted April 18, 2012 with 543 views     

Facebook’s Subscribe: The Death of Fan Pages, or is it?

Facebook’s introduction of the “subscription” feature for profile pages has blurred certain lines between profile and fan pages for many individuals seeking to leverage social media to build their own personal brand and on-line presence. This is...
Posted November 2, 2011 with 1,522 views     

How the Entenmann's / Casey Anthony Twitter Debacle Was Actually a Success

For those that missed the HUGE news, Likeable Media issued a single tweet on behalf of their client Entenmann's that make a tongue in cheek joke about the Casey Anthony Trial.Cue online righteous indignation by people with too much time on their...
Posted July 10, 2011 with 863 views     

Badges?? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Social Badges!

In a classic scene from Blazing Saddles, a bandit says, "BADGES?? We don't need no stinking badges!" Lately, I feel like I'm being "badged to death" as companies and brands playing off my desire to compete are offering me seemingly useless online...
Posted June 30, 2011 with 1,270 views     

Justin Bieber: A Social Media Case Study

As a 43-year-old father of a 2-year-old boy, I’m not exactly in the target demo for Justin Bieber.  I even listed Mr. Bieber (tongue in cheek) as one of my Top Ten Reasons Why Twitter is Stupid.  When my wife asked me to rent his new movie...
Posted June 12, 2011 with 4,328 views     

What Social Media Must Learn From E-Mail

Most e-mail marketers will agree that “batch and blasting” the same e-mail message to a single list is not nearly as effective as segmenting your lists and sending targeted or personalized content. While it does require more planning and work, this...
Posted June 9, 2011 with 1,191 views     

Does Size Matter? (In Social Media Analytics)

When I worked for AOL on their AIM instant messenger product, we used to have parties every time we’d reach a new subscriber milestone – 50M users! 60M users!! Sadly, this was before the dot com crash when companies were being hyped based upon the...
Posted May 25, 2011 with 1,386 views     

The Most Complete Twitter Application List Available - 2011 Edition

I believe this is the best, most complete and accurate list of valuable Twitter applications available on the internet right now.To be fair, I absolutely have merged and plagiarized other older and outdated lists that I found (the larger ones are...
Posted May 13, 2011 with 54,971 views     

Why Twitter Is NOT Stupid and Why You Should Care

In a recent post on my blog, I recently tried to summarize a few of the things I often hear about “Why Twitter Is Stupid”.As a semi-recent convert to the power of Twitter, I wanted to quickly play counter-point to my previous argument and provide a...
Posted May 4, 2011 with 2,497 views     

Employee Usage Of Social Media – A Toy or a Tool?

Are you wasting your most valuable asset as you design your social media programs — your employees? There is a lot of talk about how to “allow” or “encourage” employees to use social media.  I’m not talking about the marketing department...
Posted April 25, 2011 with 2,431 views     
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