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Social Media Does Not Drive ROI [Research]
On social media, engagement by itself isn’t sufficient to drive business ROI. While research shows that engagement is a major social media objective for the majority of businesses, it’s not an end in itself nor does it necessarily translate to sales and/or profits. Includes research and input from seven social media experts. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Ascend2, Chart, Coca Cola, Dave Kerpen, Derek Halperin, Engagement, Jay Baer, Joe Pulizzi, Michael Stelzner, Research, Ric Dragon, ROI
Social Media Marketing: The Inside Scoop From 6 Experts
While social media is a staple of most 2013 business plans, many marketers and business executives are still trying to figure out how to use it effectively to drive measurable results. To put your social media marketing efforts on track to succeed, we asked six top social media experts three questions to get their insights into how the social media landscape is evolving and what it means for business.
2013 Extreme Marketing Predicitions
Before we dive into the ho-hum forecasts of 2013, here are extreme predictions that go beyond the conventional trends of the past few years. The goal is to capture the thinking of marketing experts that can be conveyed via a smartphone. We started this tradition last year with twenty-four experts giving their 2012 predictions. Here are the extreme predictions of nineteen marketing experts, a majority of whom have contributed useful books on the range of marketing topics. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
2012′s Biggest Marketing Break Throughs
2012 was an evolutionary year for marketing. Trends that had been growing outside of the main focus of social media, search and digital moved to the center of marketing driven by the expanded offering and ownership of smartphones, tablets and other content consuming devices. Here’s what stood out for eighteen marketing experts. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Angie Schottmuller, Ann Handly, CC Chapman, content marketing, Daina Middleton, Dave Kerpen, David Berkowitz, Gini Dietrich, Jeff Hansen, Joe Pulizzi, Jon Mandell, Margie Clayman, Michael Stelzner, Mobile, Peter Shankman, Rebecca Lieb, Ric Dragon, Shari Thurow, smartphone, Tablet, Todd Wheatland
2012′s Biggest Marketing Surprises
Regardless of how well you plan, every year has a few surprises that catch you while you weren’t paying attention.
Here is what nineteen experts reveal was their biggest surprise in the marketing sphere this past year.
Top Marketing #FAILs of 2012
While marketing made significant gains in 2012 in terms of social media, content marketing and mobile, not every campaign was a winner. There were notable marketing #FAILs in 2012.
Based on how effectively a marketing campaign’s executed, there’s a range of potential results from excellent to poor. But to fail in today’s always-on, connected social media ecosystem means the marketer is tone deaf to what’s happening in the world or hasn’t focused on the appropriate elements of their marketing plan.
Here’s what seventeen top marketers viewed as the top marketing #FAILs of 2012. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
101 Social Media Marketing Resources – 2012 Edition
Here’s a monster list of 101 social media marketing resources (the 2012 edition) to help expand your knowledge of this ever-changing ecosystem. These resources are useful for newbies and social media mavens alike, looking to learn about the field as well as to hone their business skills.
Tags: Amy Porterfield, Andy Sernovitz, Ben McConnell, Brian Solis, Charlene Li, Chris Anderson, Chris Brogan, Clay SHirky, Copyblogger, Dave Evans, Dave Fleet, Dave Kerpen, David Meerman Scott, Ed Keller, Facebook, Geoff livingston, Gini Dietrich, google+, Hubspot, Jackie Hubba, Jeffrey L. Cohen, Jennifer Aaker, Kipp BOdnar, Lee Odden, LinkedIn, Malcolm Gladwell, mari smith, Mashable, Pinterest, problogger, Ric Dragon, Seth Godin, Shiv Singh, Slideshare, Smart Brief for Social Media, Social Media Examiner, Todd Wheatland, Twitter, Who's Blogging What, YouTube
27 Marketing Wishes for 2012
Want insight into how marketers think? To find out, I asked twenty-seven marketing experts across a range of specialties what their wish was for 2012. While it sounds like an easy question to answer, I was surprised by the responses. Read these twenty-seven marketing wishes for 2012 and you’ll discover marketers are eternal optimists as well as learn where their frustrations lie.
Tags: 2012, Angie Schottmuller, Ann Hanley, BL Ochman, Brian Rice, Cathy Halligan, Dave Kerpen, Deborah Weinstein, Greg Jarboe, Heidi Cohen, Howard Greensteinn, Jeanniey Mullen, Jim Siegel, Jim Sterne, Lisa Buyer, Luke Brynley-Jones, Margie Clayman, Mark Schafer, Marketing Forecast, Matt Blumberg, Matt Fioretta, Michael Pinto, Peggu Fitzgerald, Rebecca Lieb, Rick Dragon, Sally Falkow, Sam Decker, Sam Fiorella, WIlliam J. ward
2012 Extreme Marketing Predictions
While many marketing experts, myself included, use the beginning of the year to give their predictions for the coming year, they often stay close to the mainstream currents. To get beyond the conventional forecasts, I asked a group of leading marketers across a range of expertise for their most extreme marketing prediction for 2012. Their responses are a quick roundup that could be conveyed on a smartphone. Here are 24 extreme marketing forecasts that take a look inside the minds of some marketing leaders.
Tags: 2012, Angie Schottmuller, Ann Hanley, BL Ochman, Brian Rice, Dave Kerpen, Deborah Weinstein, Dr4Ward, Extreme Marketing Predictions, Greg Jarboe, Heidi Cohen, Jim Siegel, Jim Sterne, Joe Pulizzi, Lisa Buyer, Luke Brinley-Jones, Margie Clayman, Mark Schaefer, Marketing, Matt Blumberg, Michael Pinto, Peggy Fizpatrick, Rebecca Lieb, Ric Dragon, Sally Falkow, Sam Decker
2011 Marketing Book Recommendations By 12 Experts
Regardless of your format of choice, hardcover, paperback or ebook, 2011 produced a bookshelf full of great marketing titles as well as more general business books. Here are the recommendations of twelve marketing experts on their marketing book choices for 2011.
You Must Read This: 12 Experts Pick Their Favorite 2011 Blog Posts
What was the best of 2011’s blog posts? It’s a difficult question since, as Lisa Gerber points out, a lot depends on what’s happening at the time and what stands out on a particular subject. Further, take my word for it, writing strong, compelling content on a regular basis is hard work. Because bloggers craft posts on a regular basis, there are a lot of options from which to choose. To help me, I asked twelve experts for their input. Here are their choices and commentary.
What is Branding?
Brands are short hand marketing messages with identifiable representation that create emotional bonds with consumers through a combination of tangible and intangible factors. In a world where every individual is also a media entity, your consumers and their perception of your brand own it (as it always was). Based on the thirty definitions of branding, here are the twelve main attributes of a brand.
Tags: Al Ries, American Marketing Association, Ashley Friedlein, Augustine Fou, brand symbol, Bryan Eisenberg, Cheryl Burgess, Dave Kerpen, David Ogilvy, Donna Antonucci, Gini Dietrich, Heidi Cohen, Jay Baer, Jeffrey Harmon, Jim Siegel, Leo BUrnett, Lisa Buyer, Lois Geller, Margie Clayman, Michael Pinto, Neil Feinstein, Paul Biedermann, Rebecca Lieb, Sergio Zyman, Seth Godin
