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.
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.
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.
So your company is great offline, your clients love you. Your partners love you. You have brand evangelists and a long list of customer testimonials.
However, you have just one problem. It is becoming increasingly difficult to engage, inspire and connect with your network of customers, partners, evangelists as you did in the old days. People seem more busy than usual. They are carrying around a smart phone, talking with one another in 140 character tweets.
When building an online persona and brand usually we start with the most basic aspects including over arching brand, logo, colors, core messages etc. All of these are foundational to success. We develop our plan, develop our platform, create and launch our brand presence, integrate social with our business goals and start the social media [...]
If you have attended, managed or spoken at an event in the past couple years, chances are good you noticed changes in communication. Conversations are going to a new dimension. No longer is the conversation limited to a one to many dialog from the keynote speaking stage to the audience. Nor are the conversations limited [...]
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.
Do you feel as though your social media program has taken on a life of it’s own? Do you feel the chances of you getting a grip on social media in your lifetime are well… slim to none? Has the social media beast got a hold of your budget, resources, and ROI? Are you at a loss for how to get it back?
The Social Media Truth series is based on a keynote presentation I did at the Rochester Institute of Technology last year. I have been writing on the core concepts since then and it has served as a foundation for much discussion. I used the content as a test project to practice what I preach, build and execute an integrated plan around one solid piece of content.
Our CEO’s Blog – “Pam Marketing Nut” 
How to Get More Facebook Likes, Twitter Followers & Social Friends
Are you hitting your head against the wall trying to figure out how to get more Facebook likes, Twitter followers or connections? Maybe you are focusing on the wrong metrics? Have you thought about why someone should like your page? Why should someone follow you? Read your blog or connect with you on LinkedIn?