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Why Can’t Companies Be More Like the Iroquois?

Chris Koch

English: Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy, Hiawatha Belt Français : Drapeau de la Confédération Iroquoise (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Why Can’t Companies Do This? So the obvious question becomes, why can’t companies cooperate like this? They don’t want three different calls from three different sales areas of your company.

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The last of the anti-social marketing tactics

Chris Koch

In truth, customers have never listened, except in a few cases of companies with the budget muscle to pound the tagline into customers’ heads over and over again though mass marketing and TV. Many of these companies compete with one another. Are the marketers at these companies not doing their jobs? Image via Wikipedia.

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The last of the anti-social marketing tactics

Chris Koch

In truth, customers have never listened, except in a few cases of companies with the budget muscle to pound the tagline into customers’ heads over and over again though mass marketing and TV. Many of these companies compete with one another. Are the marketers at these companies not doing their jobs? Image via Wikipedia.

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How Jimmy Fallon Redefined the Celebrity Biography

Chris Koch

English: Jimmy Fallon CES 2009 in Las Vegas, NV (Photo credit: Wikipedia). They are a new way for entertainment companies to market their celebrities and to track them over time without waiting for the book or the movie. Jimmy’s Fallon’s career – and much of who he is as a person – can be summed up in eight minutes.

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How to measure influence in social media marketing

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Since social media leave digital footprints, companies create complex algorithms to come up with simple answers to measuring social media influence. I see successful marketers getting their companies to set two reference points to measure influence across all their marketing programs: Who we are.

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Do too many cooks spoil the blog?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Companies who want to add their voices the blogosphere have a decision to make: Do we allow individual employees to be the dominant force in our efforts, or do we keep the focus on the company by creating group-authored blogs? Some companies have decided to let a thousand flowers bloom—i.e.,

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In social media, no one knows you’re an introvert

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. What if you post a thread on a topic that your company doesn’t want you talking about? What if you wind up looking like an idiot in front of your peers and embarrassing yourself and your company? Two interesting posts this week on how our personalities affect our online behavior.