social biz with a side of nutz!
One of the first steps in creating a social media strategy for business is to understand your audience. You simply can not skip this step no matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how long you have been doing business, marketing, writing, social media or whatever it is you do.
The number one question I hear when it comes to Twitter is “what do I talk about?”
Given that most people do NOT know what to talk about, many wind up either boring their social community to death or they turn them off because they default to talking about themselves.
Never fear. You do not need to default to tweeting like a self centered, babbling idiot.
For those twitter peeps who like to tweet urls, well your tweets are going to get shorter.
Starting today, any tweet that includes a url will now be reduced by 2 characters. This takes it to 118 characters, or 117 for https links.
Top 25 social media blog posts of 2012 from our CEO, Pam Moore’s blog on “The Marketing Nut”. Key findings and learnings improve content marketing, increase blog traffic and return on investment.
So you have finally said “yes.” It feels almost like as big of a commitment as the day that special someone said “I do!”. You honestly never thought this day would come. You thought that crazy lil’ blue bird was a fad. Something that would fly away and you could move on with your day job. Nope, [...]
So you’ve heard about hashtags, tweet chats, Twitter parties, tweet addiction but you have never joined in. Could be because you are afraid of what might happen to your brain or life if you too become as addicted as you see some of the crazy blue bird lovin’ folks out there. Or, is it that [...]
Hashtag, hashbrown, same thing right? Actually though both are very tasty, the two are quite different. If only I had a free week long vacation for every time someone asked me what the difference is between a hashtag and a hashbrown. If I did I would be living permanently on a quiet, remote island and probably not writing this blog post!
Life as a CMO is transforming by the minute. Social media and social business present tremendous opportunities coupled with demands that simply didn’t exist before. The importance of working and partnering across functions, organizations, and channels is not an option, but required for survival.
Marketing, IT, sales, and customer service teams must work together with a set of common goals, objectives and a solid, supporting and integrated social business infrastructure.
It was early 2009, and I was still working in the walls of corporate America. I setup an account with the friendly little blue bird, named Twitter. It was from that moment I saw the power of the tweet and what it had in store for my life.
Developing a social media program with no plan, goals or objectives is like expecting to get on a plane for vacation with no plane ticket, itenerary or idea where you are going when you get to the destination.
You need more than a set of random acts of social media and marketing (RAMs). RAMs will eat every last morsel of return on investment you have left. The best way to identify a RAM is that it is not funded, resourced, in the plan or have metrics to measure success.
Our CEO’s Blog – “Pam Marketing Nut” 
