Strategy, advice, and inspiration for digital marketing and social media experts

Using Social To Support The Human Dynamic: LiveWorld & SMW14

January 21, 2014
Posted by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing

LiveWorld has been around since basically the beginning of social. Can you tell us more about how the vision that helped create LiveWorld and where you see social going in the next few years? Friedman: Our core team began work in social, or rather online community, all the way back in 1984 and 1985 at […]

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Is Your Company at Risk for Brand Schizophrenia?

Posted by: Peter Friedman, Founder, Chairman & CEO

At so many companies, the marketing mix is divided into silos. Social media is often bolted on as an afterthought, and frequently handled by a number of different agencies or individuals. The result is often “schizophrenic” messaging, the inconsistency of which confuses and scares off customers. We once had a client whose Facebook page was […]

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Hip hop, scientists & pirate hats: How to get your company to work remotely

January 15, 2014
Posted by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing

Shatter the old adage that a company must have everyone under the same roof to have stellar team cohesion.  That’s such an outdated and toothless argument, anyway. But how do you make remote working highly productive, income generating and efficient?  I dare you to apply the following to your own business. Step 1: Get the […]

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Go Big or Go Home: Using Big Data to Create Marketing Plans that Get Results – Part 2

January 3, 2014
Posted by: Matthew Hammer, VP- Marketing

Don’t Just Grow — Analyze Big data’s ability to harness the explosion of data made possible by technology won’t amount to a hill of beans for you or your company if you don’t know how to use this information to create scalable business and marketing plans. After all, it’s not enough to grow for the […]

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