Tag: social media marketing
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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4 Tactics for Social Commerce on Facebook
The biggest challenge to e-commerce in the Social Web Era is the emerging Social Commerce. With the raise of Social Commerce, Facebook is becoming the Mecca for commerce. Companies need to be fast to grab land on Facebook. Below you can find the best ways to implement Social Commerce on Facebook; 1) Integrate Facebook Like […]
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Customer Service is the New PR
Steve Rubel named the new phenomenon shortly and simply in six words; Customer Service is the New PR. Echoing on Rubel, Carol Cole-Lewis states in her article; “When I worked in the marketing department for Lexmark in the UK, we made a case for including Customer Service personnel in our department, rather than in technical support. We […]
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Social Marketing Agency
(or Social Media Agency) Mr Youth “a social marketing agency focusing on word-of-mouth, social interactive and experiential marketing” announced today that it has closed a private equity deal with two Boston-based investors. Social Marketing is a great are with huge profit opportunities. It is very difficult for “integrated agencies” to focus on social marketing, and […]