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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

Here’s an example of when it’s bad: United Breaks Guitars is a song and music video that musician Dave Carroll created in 2009 after United Airlines damaged his guitar during a flight. After failing to receive satisfaction from the airline, Dave wrote and recorded a song about his experience and posted it on YouTube.

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Tracking Video Music Trends: How to Stay Current

Vidyard

Unfortunately, the ability to follow trends and stay ahead of the curve is still agonizingly difficult. It’s the job of a music supervisor to stay current with the latest trends in music. Is your goal to make the next critically claimed indie romance film or the next viral half-time commercial? We get the struggle.

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How to Fail at Social Media

The Effective Marketer

An interesting post on Why So Many Companies Suck at Social Media brings in some good insights and compares the now famous Old Spice youtube campaign with copycats like Cisco and Brigham Young University. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right?

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The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior

The Effective Marketer

Volkswagen launched what became quickly a viral campaign with emails being forwarded, youtube videos with over 1 million hits and comments from all corners of the web. This entry was posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Social Media. Some food for thought.

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Social Media's Next Victim?

The Effective Marketer

And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. This entry was posted on Friday, November 6th, 2009 at 8:15 am and is filed under Uncategorized. What stories or lessons learned do you have to share? United States License.

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The Enemy of Productivity

The Effective Marketer

If you are anything like the typical worker, you can probably list a few things you’ve accomplished such as: read emails responded to emails sent emails deleted emails See a trend here? This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 8:15 am and is filed under Communication , Marketing Management , productivity.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. With the change and addition of new marketing channels, marketers now see themselves more as content creators than anything else. What used to be clear roles (i.e. United States License. United States License.

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