Anonymous Social Networks – Social marketing’s emerging opportunity

Anonymous Social Networks – Social marketing’s emerging opportunity

Social marketing has gathered steam in recent years and positively impacts other marketing channels when properly aligned. The latest to the social sharing party are anonymous applications Secret and Whisper, which enable users to anonymously share thoughts to a public network

5 Steps to Effective Real-Time Marketing

5 Steps to Effective Real-Time Marketing

Real-time marketing, a golden opportunity for brands to capitalize on what the collective world has eyes on, is effective when done well, but embarrassing when it’s not. With the ability to quickly reach a huge number of people comes the double-edged sword of blunders going viral for all the wrong reasons.

Forgive My Rant: Grammar Mistakes That Make Us Cringe

Forgive My Rant: Grammar Mistakes That Make Us Cringe

Writing’s tough; we know it. Constantly brainstorming ideas, finding your voice and establishing a flow can be enough to exhaust even the most enthusiastic wordsmith, and this is all before making sure you don’t distribute that press release containing a glaring grammatical error.

#HashtagCampaigns – Making the Pound Powerful.

#HashtagCampaigns – Making the Pound Powerful.

Remember when the “#” was just another annoying step to check your voicemail? OK, it still is. But for public relations and marketing teams, integrating the use of the hashtag across marketing campaigns can make a huge impact in the social world of 2014.

You still can't beat credible third party endorsements

You still can't beat credible third party endorsements

The mix of marketing vehicles available to companies looking to tell their stories and sell their wares has never been more extensive: print, broadcast, online, mobile. This reminds us that it's not the channel in which a message is consumed but the message itself and the source of that message that earns a business credibility.