What’s Working in Marketing

As more brands are jumping on board with integrating social media tools into their marketing plans and campaigns, it becomes painfully obvious that creating and managing good, shareable content has its challenges.   In this podcast, I spend some time talking with Mike Boudreaux, Product Manager at Emerson Process Management and Jon DiPietro, entrepreneur, blogger and [...]

Just another thing to think about.  I read today that just about any tweet (except Direct Message (DM) tweets) will be stored by the Library of Congress. In fact, they have been storing all public tweets since the inception of Twitter.  With more than 50M tweets and 600M twitter searches daily and rising, that’s going [...]

The economy has been harsh for much of the last year and a half. In the last quarter, we can describe it as sluggish, at best. But 2009 was a banner year for digital marketing. The Internet and e-marketing tools allow us to reach out and engage prospects and customers efficiently and at lower cost [...]

I will just puke. Ok, There. I said it.
One of the most obnoxious things about social media is the hype that comes along with it.  I know I am tired of hearing about “rock stars” in social media.  And now the Intel commercials have jumped on the rock star bandwagon – or [...]

By now, most of the marketing people we meet in the B2B space are past the “try social media” hype and are looking for ways to integrate their offline and online marketing programs to work together cohesively.  If you are one of those people, then I have some good news for you today.
Apparently, users of [...]

We’re still recovering from the ISA Marketing & Sales Summit in Boston last week. It was the 4th annual event and, I think, the best ever. We had a great group of speakers from the automation industry, and engaged senior-level attendees from marketing and sales. It was 3 days of interesting conversations and idea exchange. [...]

If you are a Twitter user, one of the things you may want to experiment with are Tweet Chats or Twitter Chats.  They are organized discussions that focus on a range of personal and professional topics.  There can be hundreds participating in a chat at the same time, and it’s a fascinating way to “meet” [...]