Happy Monday, y’all! I hope everyone is having a wonderful December and is getting ready for Christmas and the Holidays! On a personal note, I wanted to thank all of you for your support since I ‘re-launched’ this blog in late August. All of us have dealt with adversity this year, and 2020 was already […]
Monday’s Marketing Minute: Social Media’s Uncertain Future
Happy Monday, y’all! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week and ready for Halloween! Here’s a few news stories that caught my eye over the last few days: And it appears that the government crackdown on big tech and social media has begun. The DOJ has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. At the […]
Monday’s Marketing Minute: Users Don’t Trust Facebook, How Covid Has Changed Shopper Behavior
Welcome to the start of another great week! Thanks for reading, on Wednesday my Movies and Marketing post will feature the movie with the greatest product placement of all-time (what do you think it is?), and on Thursday I’ll do a special post recapping what happened here in the month of September after relaunching my […]
Monday’s Marketing Minute: DOJ Targets Google, Twitch Thriving Under Lockdown, Burgers in the Sky
Happy Labor Day, y’all! Hope you had a great holiday weekend and are as ready for Fall as I am! The weather here has been about 10 degrees cooler than normal for the last couple weeks and looks to continue this for the rest of the month. Bring on Fall! It’s been fascinating to […]
Social Media is Toxic, Broken, and it Needs to Go Away
Adversity doesn’t create character, it reveals it. I had my first exposure to what could be called a ‘social network’ when I joined Prodigy.net in 1991 I have two main memories of being a Prodigy member: The users were insanely nice and courteous There were very few users I remember there being many message boards […]
Social Media is Destroying Our Ability to Create Impactful Content and Meaningful Connections
Go scan your timeline on Twitter or your news feed on Facebook. Look at the articles being shared, and more importantly, look at the headlines. After a while, you’ll begin to notice something. The headlines are written in a way to attract people that are already on Twitter and Facebook. This is important, because the […]
It’s Time For Your Company to Move on From Facebook and Twitter
This has been a frustratingly difficult post for me to write on multiple levels. For years, I have advised my clients to ‘plant in the gardens that they own’ when it comes to social media. Focus on your blog and newsletter, or the delivery channels that you control versus putting all your eggs in a […]
How Facebook Just Changed Influencer Marketing and What Needs to Happen Next
Last week without much fanfare, Facebook made a pretty big change to how brands work with influencers on its site. Previously, a brand would have to share an influencer’s post before they could boost it. Now, brands can boost any influencer’s post as long as the influencer is authorized to tag the brand in their […]
Social Media Doesn’t Have a ‘Fake News’ Problem, it Has a Transparency Problem
Earlier this year, a troubling report came out where former Facebook contractors claimed that they were given orders to manipulate the trending topics and articles that Facebook presents to its users. More specifically, these contractors claimed that Facebook wanted them to not only remove some political articles from conservative sources, but additionally they were told to […]
Facebook Study Reveals How Brands Can Drive Engagement With Users
Facebook did a study in 2012 to determine what type of content drives engagement on its brand pages. From the study: “We examined four weeks of Page posts, across 23 brands and six industries and divided the posts into three types of content: Messages about the product or service Travel brand example: Our new resort just […]
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