These days, marketers don’t just want a chair at the table—they want to lead the meeting. But no matter how smart and fast your marketing team is, it’s only one piece in a larger puzzle that runs your company. Whether you’re part of an in-house team or a member of an...
The online community pendulum is swinging back. It’s no longer enough to rely on social networks for community infrastructure. Smart companies are now combining owned and rented community functions into a 1+1=3 scenario I call Omni-Social. The rise of...
Millions and Billions of… Something? It’s accepted as fact that your reach and impact on social is directly related to the numbers of views, likes, fans, followers, retweets, and plays your posts receive. Right? Well… not really. With 18 years of experience at Cox...
Each quarter, a brand receives an average of 9,052 inbound social messages that require a response. Any social media manager or social customer care agent knows that there’s a great deal of overlap in the Tweets a brand attracts. After all, great minds think...
“Branding is dead!” “Long live branding!” Our relationship with the construct of branding is a little sketchy these days. While we don’t trust traditional brand advertising to the degree we once did in the broadcast era, today’s crowded digital marketplace demands...