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Best Digital Marketing Events for 2012

Which digital marketing events do you find useful? Below, you can find Radical Marketer’s 2012 Top 10 Digital marketing event / seminars: Interactcongress (IAB Europe) Ad-Tech dmexco (IAB EU) DMA Mobile Marketing Day Clikz Events SES iMedia Connection Events SNWF Social Networking/Media World Forum IAB MIXX Conference & Expo The Future of Digital Marketing (e-consultancy) [...]

The awakening of Bill Gates

In the wake of the sad news on death of Steve Jobs, we see love & light from all over the world. Most trending tweets are about Steve Jobs, millions of Facebook profile pictures are changed for the memory of Steve and the social media is writing vigorously on Jobs character, Apple and anything about [...]

The bubble blowers & the bubble economy

Why do good things always get a bubble in the beginning? Web came with its bubble. Then online advertising, blogs had their bubbles, after that mobile marketing, now it’s time for the social media bubble. But if you look at other things as well, (say Private Equity, Mortgage or whatever you want) there is always [...]

Steve Jobs & Marketing

Steve Jobs who was the number one enabler of Radical Marketing has just died. He was not only the enabler (with products like iPhone & iPad) but also the pioneer of Radical Marketing as can be seen on the 1984 ad. What a sad day for the world and also the marketing world. As reported he [...]

PR Strategy of Facebook

I was just listening to Hill & Knowlton’s Global Technology Practice Director Joshua Reynolds who had the chance to work with Mark Zuckerberg in 2007 &2008 on Facebook’s PR. He shared a short story on PR Strategy of Facebook which i wanted to share. When defining your company keep this short story in mind: “Mark [...]

Top 16 Technology Content Creators & Influencers

TIME recently picked the 140 Twitter feeds that are shaping the conversation. 16 of these twitter feeds are in technology. Below you can find top 16 twitter accounts that shape the conversation around technology, based on their influence ranked by TIME survey (as of March, 31 2011); Xeni Jardin Chris Hardwick Beth Blecherman Gina Trapani [...]

Blogs & Publishing Platforms on Web

Before Facebook there was WordPress as the main publishing platform on the web.  And, WordPress will always have its place on the web publishing. Even though the infographic doesn’t consider Facebook as a Blog platform (and I cannot read their unique visitor numbers), this infograhic is important to understand the power of wordpress on web, [...]

Planning & Designing Facebook Promotions

Facebook made a change to its Promotions Guidelines this week. The big news is; there is no longer a requirement to obtain approval from Facebook to run a promotion entirely within Facebook. The two major changes are; 1) No need for prior written Facebook approval to administer a promotion on Facebook. This makes life for brands [...]

How to Aim Plan & Execute your Groupon Campaign!

The Groupon Trilogy – Groupon for Dummies The Groupon trilogy is a set of tree articles focusing on using group buying campaigns successfully as a marketer. The set will introduce Radical Marketers to effectively use this new campaign tool in their companies / on their brands. However, this trilogy is just the entry for using [...]

12 Secrets to turn your Groupon Campaign a Success

How to set-up / execute a Groupon offering? The so called group buying phenomenon which was fueled by Groupon.com created a new way of promotion. However, it is unfortunate to see some companies failing terribly on group buying promotions. As the recent study from Rice University (Utpal Dholakia) reports 32% of all campaigns on Groupon are [...]

Four Things to plan before designing Groupon promotion

How to plan a Groupon promotion? Yesterday, I wrote about the top reasons to offer a group buying campaign / promotion. If your goal is one of the top 5 mentioned, you can possibly get positive returns from your offer. However, you need to do some planning before the campaign. Below you can find the [...]

Top Five Reasons to Offer a Groupon Promotion

Why to use a group buying campaign / promotion? If you do not have a valid reason and strategy behind your actions, this tool, like all other tools for web marketing, will backfire on your business. You should first have a valid reason for utilizing a group buying campaign. Below, you can find the top [...]

The measurement game

Last month I wrote about some problems in “Measuring Marketing Performance“. This time another problem surfaced the web on TechMeme. Again and again we hear about wrong “success stories” with misunderstood performance indicators within the sector or on media. The Foursquare success story for McDonald’s even made the headlines for NewYork Times. In most cases [...]

“Push marketing” has died, long live “pull marketing”

Who am I talking to? “You Ought To Know” video was produced two years ago by Hubspot as a viral marketing campaign. It is unfortunate that today most of the marketers still don’t get the idea behind the video. Marketing is changing, this is the era of pull marketing. It is a great video, highly [...]

Measuring Marketing Performance

HBR send me today an e-mail on “Measuring Marketing Performance”. I am sure the material which is dated Feb. 2007 is a great source for many new marketers. However, I am skeptical on two points; 1) In this changing marketing world, I wouldn’t advertise on such a topic “Measuring Marketing Performance” which is outdated 3,5 [...]

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