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Tipp-Ex goes viral…with a bear

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Thanks to companies like BlendTec and Old Spice , more brands are realizing the values of online marketing through the social media stream. The aforementioned brands are now considered luminaries in the social media marketing field after having fully utilized video site YouTube for their own campaigns.

With the success both Blendtec’s Will It Blend? and Old Spice’s The Man Your Man Could Smell Like series of videos brought to these companies, you can surely expect that the next viral sensation is merely around the corner. The Web did not fail us, as stationary correction product Tipp-Ex unveiled their marketing campaign late last week.

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Weekly Link Roundup (09-03-10)

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The Digital Five Tool Player (AdamCohen.com)

Social media marketing is here to stay. Already, many agencies, vendors, and marketing departments are factoring the Internet and social networking platforms into their marketing strategies. Adam Cohen believes there are five elements that can leverage a digital campaign. Read on to find out.

What is Your Relationship Strategy (Relationship-Economy.com)

Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, in themselves, are not a social media strategy. They are merely channels for your content and containers reflecting your presence. Your online presence and content would mean nothing unless you can add value to others.

5 Ways to Get the Support of Social Media Influencers (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Social media influencers are what we call the people whom everyone listens to. Get them to notice your campaign and you can be sure it will be spread to a wide range of channels. The trusty Social Media Examiner provides tips on how to get the influencers move to your favor.

6 Ways to Avoid a Social Media Meltdown (GigaOM.com)

It is every company’s greatest nightmare to have their neatly planned and executed social media campaign crash into pieces right before their eyes. The article above presents six ways to avoid it.

Social Media and Negative Comments – What Should You Do? (SocialMediaDudes.com)

There is no way to control the way your followers are going to respond to you once your social media campaign takes flight. When negative comments arise, here is some advice on what can be done to curb them.

Tool Time: Secure your name online

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

In social media, your identity means everything and it’s the very foundation that builds on your brand recognition, development and reputation management. As such, you may have secured for your brand its own domain name with a fully furnished Web site, jumped onto various social media sites and have also begun attracting and building relationships with your followers along the way. Good on ya.

As you continue to exist online, there will always be some new social network cropping out of the woodwork. And as they pile up the social Web, it’s important to secure your name on each one of them to make sure you have control over your brand’s identity online. (more…)

4Food: The Social Media Burger Joint

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010


All images from the 4Food Facebook profile

A new burger joint is opening in two weeks in the corner of 40th and Madison in Midtown Manhattan. And while a new fast food establishment opening in New York is hardly news, especially in this non-foodie blog of ours, what easily caught our attention is that the restaurant seems to have been built with both tech and social media at the forefront.

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Social media marketing and the Bieber Fever

Monday, August 23rd, 2010


Image by Constantin B.

Mentioning Justin Bieber can surely detonate a bubblegum pop-bomb across the Internet. The overall effect makes prepubescent girls worldwide squeal and weep with excitement, snap up every piece of merchandise bearing his image and make YouTube videos lip synching to his songs.

On the other end of the spectrum, the rest of us merely see him as this migratory meme that just won’t go away. And so sites have been set up dedicated to document his every misfortune , block him from our Web drifting experience and ridicule his overall image .

Love him or absolutely abhor him, these mentions online give him great leverage that raises him as a brand atop the Web trails.

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Weekly Link Roundup (08-20-10)

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Choosing Content Brands to Trust With Your Brand (FutureChanges.org)

The future of online advertising will be dependent on collaboration. Big brand advertisers will want influential content providers to leverage their brand while at the same time, content providers will want big brands to further back up their online influence.

Lessons in How to Go Viral: Use the “Bored at Work” Network (NYTimes.com)

Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, says that for content to go viral, it has to be “easy to understand, easy to share and includes a social imperative.” It also helps if it is just a pinch – or more – outrageous.

Rethinking the Cease and Desist: Don’t Threaten Fan Communities and Groups, License Your Brand to Them (ManagingCommunities.com)

Online communities are goldmines for brand building. Rather than looking at them as a potential threat, give them official permission to do what they are already doing. Members of such communities are already loyal to your brand. Hand them a Cease and Desist notice and you run the risk of losing an established fan base.

9 Ways to Use Social Media to Inspire Your Writing (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Keeping connected can actually help writers battle the ever looming threat of the Writer’s Block. A whole host of inspiration and insight can be found while engaging with social media, though it does depend on who you follow and watch.

The New Marketing Trifecta (FlowTown.com)

Now is the perfect time to integrate social media and mobile tools into the marketing mix. This colorful infographic shows interesting statistics on the changing mindsets of marketers on internet and mobile marketing.

Facebook (finally) gets location

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010


Image by Steve Snodgrass

This year has mostly been tagged by bloggers and social media experts as the year of location. This has been proven true as many brands are now spending a considerable amount of their marketing and sales efforts leveraging on its capabilities to their advantage.

With services like Foursquare and Gowalla currently at the top of the geolocation heap, you have to wonder where the usually forward-facing Facebook is in the location ethos. While the company has forayed into other social media avenues, location seems to be a field they have yet to jump into.

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