Biznology

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Too many companies try to outsource their social media in hopes that a social media expert, like me, will care about their brand just as much as they do. I hate to break it to you, but no consultant will ever care as much about your brand as you do—even those of us who get paid a pretty handsome penny for our services.

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Biznology

JULY 17, 2017

Are you a B2B business exec whose instincts are saying you should be doing something with social media, but you’re not sure what? I estimate about half of the people who contact us for help with a social media program don’t have set objectives in mind–often because they don’t really know what social media can do for them.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Mastering the art and science of acquiring customers via leading social media platforms is extremely valuable, given that all your potential customers, numbering billions, hang out on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social platforms. When engaging on social media, be open, friendly, and conversational.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Ever since the days of MySpace , it became pretty clear that social media platforms have a bright future ahead. In other words, the social media world has expanded rapidly in the past few years. Social media trends. How social media can transform knowledge management? billion active users.

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Biznology

JUNE 13, 2017

So, while I need to call what I am doing social media marketing and micro-influencer marketing , what I am really doing is public relations and public affairs — and it’s always been this way. Done right, both social media engagement and influencer outreach are personal, person-to-person.

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Biznology

MARCH 22, 2017

Social media gurus make social media management sound so darn difficult. Maybe it’s because they have social media management services to sell you, or they could be in the wrong business. Here’s what the gurus don’t want you to know: the toughest part about social media management is getting started.

Social Media 138

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Just because you know how to use social media doesn’t mean that you know how to make it work in an organization. Organizations must understand their social media goals and know how to encourage and measure them, and nowhere is that more true than for financial services companies.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Despite all your sleek brand activations, customers will develop their own understanding of your brand based on what they encounter online, not only the experiences that you have designed for them, but everything your employees, partners, advocates, detractors and others say about you in social media, review sites, etc.

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Biznology

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last ten years, there has been a profound change in the way business people make buying decisions, and social media is at the heart of this. In most B2B industries today buyers will check providers out on social media as part of their decision-making process. Expanding brand awareness.

Social Media 80

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Biznology

MARCH 28, 2017

Wired published Social Media Influencers Finally Come to … Medicine yesterday about Boston-based company Wego Health and their web-based platform that introduces pharmaceutical firms, medical device manufacturers, hospitals, and insurers to relevant social media influencers. Come reach out to me and my team at Gerr.is

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Biznology

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Are you getting the most out of social media? We’ll safely assume that you and your business are using social media. Discover the following eight commonly overlooked ways to make social media work for you. Discover the following eight commonly overlooked ways to make social media work for you.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Rob Petersen’s latest webinar is all about measuring social media. If social media is so important, why are most marketers unable to measure it? Do they need to know the social media metrics that matter and how they are monitored? 73% plan to increase spending on marketing analytics ( The CMO Survey ).

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2015

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram… the list of today’s social media platforms is alarmingly long. It is nearly impossible to effectively use every social media platform to promote your business. The key to a successful social media presence is a narrow focus that effectively engages your business’s audience.

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Biznology

AUGUST 4, 2015

Even of you have enough money to hire an entire social media symphony as well as a social media monitoring and response task force, there are too many hours in a day and, according to some, the sweet spots aren’t even during the work day anymore. So, social media automation is key. Pretty neat.

Work Management 80

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2015

the print and broadcast media were the only ones who could really speak to the masses about a business. Now, with the help of social media and review sites, everyone and anyone can have a say, anytime. Southwest Airlines took to social media touting how they are now the only U.S. Before the Internet and Web 2.0,

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Biznology

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Are all of your conversations meta, meaning do you only discuss social media and social networks, the platforms and vehicles, rather than about content, narrative, story, experiences, expertise, and insight. What are you about outside of social media marketing and digital PR? Photo credit: Wikipedia.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In my last post , I started to show how even the most recognized social media and social selling authors, experts, and consultants are getting LinkedIn wrong. We specialize in working with executives over 40 who have not been active in social media before, and have just a few minutes each day they can spare.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Our goal is the same as the goal of the quiz: get folks to take the quiz, find out their Original Thinker type, and then share their emoji badges via social media, sharing with all their friends via Facebook , LinkedIn , and Twitter. The post Kimberly-Clark uses a social media quiz to woo young talent appeared first on Biznology.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Here’s a list, off the top of my head, of things that could and should make your social media and blogging life more full, exciting, passionate, accountable, and fruitful — and maybe a little less intimidating. Add Social Media Information to Print Media. I always compare social media to parenting.

Social Media 80

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Biznology

AUGUST 29, 2012

Monday, I talked about the Convey API , a new offering from Converseon that earned DataWeek’s Innovator of the Year on Social Media. To me, the bigger opportunity for accurate sentiment analysis is how it can be used for entirely new applications that go way beyond social media monitoring. Sales has its CRM system.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Are you a social media hoarder? Is it time for a bit of a social media spring cleaning? Or, all the stuff you’ve posted since the beginning of your social media life, including your blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn , Friendster, MySpace , Flickr, YouTube , et al. In Are you a social media polymath?

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Biznology

JANUARY 24, 2012

In follow up on my last post, Being Pretty Isn’t Enough for Social Media Marketing , I wanted to discuss what I like to call Social Media Isolationism or Social Media Agoraphobia. And there are two forms of social media isolationism: Invitational and exclusionary.

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Biznology

JUNE 25, 2013

I believe that all social media marketing campaigns should probably start with foraging (as I discussed last week) — but as you grow, you need to evolve, especially if you need to bring home more and more food. Even more, the content-creation for content marketing can trend-surf as well.

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Biznology

JULY 2, 2013

This is the next in the series, including Are you a social media forager? and Are you a social media marketing trapper? Are they on social media? For many, social media foraging and social media trapping is more than enough, as I’ve discussed the last two weeks.

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Biznology

MARCH 17, 2014

Among companies that are “very successful” at achieving goals with social media, 47% make extensive use of social analytics. Among companies that are “not successful,” 17% use social analytics (source: Marquette Group and Ascend2 ). Why did you get into social media?

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Biznology

AUGUST 20, 2012

That’s far from typical–very few companies have more traffic to any of their social media venues than to their old-fashioned website. Here are 26 social media secrets Skittles knows: 1 out of every 5 minutes people spend online are spent on social networks in 2012; up from 1 out of every 20 minutes in 2007.

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Biznology

APRIL 15, 2014

Promoting yourself, your brand, your products, your services, and your clients via social media is what we’re about here at Biznology. Social media marketing is what I have been doing for my clients, my business, and my own brand since 2003. Maybe you set up your LinkedIn profile years ago.

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2014

It’s happened like this over and over: photography, filmmaking, recording, radio, television, computing, the Internet , message boards, blogging, and now social media. Anyways… So, as a result, we’re entering a world with fewer and fewer active Internet-, Web-, Blog-, Social Media - and Content-Creators.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

My topic was how companies can use social media, not just for marketing, but across their entire organization. And, just like with social media marketing, the right place to start your social media usage for other purposes in the organization is with listening.

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Social Media Organization Media Public Relations 80

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Has your boss started asking you the so-called “tough questions” about social media yet? What’s the ROI for this social stuff? Social can fill a vital role in each of these areas. Not only is it good for those, but social media can do lots more, too. Improve customer service? Tweet This Post.

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Biznology

MARCH 6, 2012

There are six reasons why you’ll have chronic writer’s block when it comes to producing content to feed your social media dragons: blog, Twitter and Facebook. Unlike traditional dead tree publishing, our social media output generally never makes it to paper. Nothing seems like the right approach. No worries.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 16, 2013

CEO’s who participate in social media (Social CEO’s) are seen as better leaders. 66% of C suite executives say it risky to have an unsocial CEO, versus the 49% who says its risky to have a Social CEO. Today, 42% of CEO are social; this is expected to increase by 50% within 5 years.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the posts from fellow Social Media Examiner contributor Stephanie Sammons , you’ll find tips about having a professional photo, a strong headline, and a summary written in first person that is prospect-centric. There was no content to create an unconsidered need and an unexpected urgency and demand for the company’s services.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Content marketing, SEO and social media are frequently mentioned at the same time during planning meetings and lumped together when people talk about “doing digital.” Social media should rightly be considered a tactic. Photo credit: Jolante. ” But are they really compatible with one another?

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Biznology

MARCH 1, 2013

It was about the problem of social media accounts being hacked and hijacked and something bad happening to a brand. Anyone who is stupid enough to buy that kind of abrupt messaging as real is not social media savvy and likely just not very intelligent. Twitter uses HTTPS for their service as well.

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Biznology

MAY 7, 2013

Every other week I like to remind you that you’re being a social media wuss. And, by wuss, I mean you’re being too much of a social media “nice guy.” The social mediasphere is a two-way-street. Become a social media composer? The Internet is a collaboration. Are you boring?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 8, 2013

If you’ve got a product, a service, an expertise, or access to an industry, you really have something that would be not merely compelling to certain online communities but actually a real draw. You really need to not be a robot or a customer service rep or a stiff drone. Nothing’s cooler. Not incidentally, though.

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