Posted on July 29, 2009 by Trae Clevenger
In April of this year, Forrester published a paper titled The Future of the Social Web. An excellent document all around and a must read for all digital marketers, IMHO. Author Jeremiah Owyang predicts the near-term impact of social technology on marketing, commerce, customer relationships and advertising. (Read more on Jeremiah’s blog including some spot-on [...]
Filed under: Channels, Facebook, Social, eCommerce | Tagged: 1-800-FLOWERS, eCommerce, Facebook, Social, Zappos | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 16, 2009 by Dan Pereira
In April, Facebook announced that they had reached the 200 million user account Milestone, which was pretty amazing. Yesterday, just three short months later, Mark Zuckerberg officially announces Facebook has reached another milestone, 250 Million users, repeat that, 250 million users! Up 50 million since April, and 100 million since January 2009. Adding 100 million [...]
Filed under: Facebook, Social | Tagged: Audience, Facebook, Video | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 24, 2009 by Dan Pereira
During the past 2 weeks a ton has happen within the social media realm, Ashton reaches 1mm twits, Oprah “Starts tweeting“, the MySpace CEO steps down, Facebook exec replaces him… wow! Michael Stelzner released a study during the Social Media Success Summit 2009, where 88% of marketers in a recent survey say they are now [...]
Filed under: Channels, Creative, Facebook, Industry News, MySpace, Social, Twitter, advertising | Tagged: Ashton, Dove, Facebook, Ford, Gossip Girl, Land Rover, MySpace, Oprah, Skynet, Twitter, Volvo | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 6, 2009 by Trae Clevenger
I’m not the only one on a marketing-on-Facebook binge. Last week was Facebook Week over at Mashable. (It sounds cooler if you say it in an echo chamber. STARTING SUNDAY! unday FACEBOOK! acebook WEEK! eek eek). Here’s their recap of articles published during the week: 5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page – Samir [...]
Filed under: Channels, Facebook, Social | Tagged: Channels, Facebook, Innovation, Shark Week, Social | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 3, 2009 by Trae Clevenger
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that recent Facebook changes were getting some people all hot and bothered about the marketing possibilities. Well, check out the way Ben & Jerry’s is using Facebook Connect to let fans promote their favorite flavor. (BTW, have you ever tried Half Baked? Three words: HO LEE CRAP!). On [...]
Filed under: Channels, Facebook, Social | Tagged: Ben & Jerry's, Channels, Direct, Facebook, Half Baked, Innovation, Social | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2009 by Sherri Gesin
Hey, Trae – Turbo Tax is running a contest where they reward people for Twitter and Facebook chatter. It’s ‘an engagement campaign across social media’. Everyone who chooses to participate must first ‘friend’ Turbo Tax or follow them on Twitter. Turbo tax will then have many more new friends and followers. What should they do with that data?
Filed under: Creative, Email, Facebook, Industry News, Social, Twitter | Tagged: branding, data visualization, Email, Facebook, marketing, social media, Twitter | Leave a Comment »