Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category

2011 – The Year in Review

Happy New Year, everyone! We’re back from vacation and are already hard at work on a bunch of really cool projects. Before we get too far into 2012, we thought it would be good to reflect on some of the things we learned and discussed in 2011. Here is a breakdown of our top 5 [...]

A visual aid for understanding content marketing.

I came across this great image on Social Media Explorer and I wanted to share it with you. Content marketing is something we have talked about a fair bit in the past year and I think it’s great to have a visual representation of what it really means. The burger is a great way to [...]

Generating leads with LinkedIn

Marketing on social media sites is not a new thing. With sites like Twitter and Facebook, marketers seemed to figure out how to use these networks to reach people fairly quickly and have been quite successful at it. However, there is one social networking site that has been a bit of a tougher nut for [...]

Does anyone really want to be friends with your brand?

Social networking has exploded in popularity in the past few years, so it makes sense that marketers would want to follow consumers to this space. I’ve seen some great examples of campaigns that have been very successful with reaching fairly large audiences through social media channels, but I wonder how responsive people are to most [...]

Social Media Strategy 101

When you talk about developing a social media strategy, it can sound quite complicated and a little confusing. I was searching for an example to show visually how the flow of information works within a company’s social media/content marketing strategy, when I came across this awesome video by a company called IdeaPaint. IdeaPaint is a [...]