Chris Koch

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Four reasons to hate thought leadership

Chris Koch

We add a new twist to an existing idea or we do a deeper analysis of a well-known issue than others. It’s a set up for failure. Truly great ideas are rare. Mostly what we do with thought leadership is educate and inform. That’s not really leadership. It’s bastardized.

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Eight reasons to monitor social media and a list of tools for doing it

Chris Koch

Some developers are using algorithms and analysis to determine whether conversations are positive or negative and whether the individuals within the conversation are supporters or detractors. Yet this same newness means that few are integrated with the software that marketers already have, such as CRM.

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We’re missing the real social media revolution

Chris Koch

Lots of statistical analysis about the relative growth rates of Facebook and Twitter and the slowing of uptake for both. We’ve all heard a lot of debate lately about whether social media is an evolution or a revolution.

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

Analysis that looks at the concept of the different social media tools as “technology platforms” adds a little more clarity—as in, Facebook could win because it has the largest number of users and therefore, like Microsoft Windows, it could emerge as the de facto monopoly in social media. that it’s hard to know where to place your bets.

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

Analysis that looks at the concept of the different social media tools as “technology platforms” adds a little more clarity—as in, Facebook could win because it has the largest number of users and therefore, like Microsoft Windows, it could emerge as the de facto monopoly in social media. that it’s hard to know where to place your bets.

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15 things marketers should stop doing and thinking in 2011

Chris Koch

Buying marketing automation tools or social media analysis tools aren’t enough. Analytics can wait. We need to close the loop on what buyers do with our content and use that insight to predict what they will do next. You need people who know how to create analytical processes and algorithms and all that stuff.

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