Marketing Craftmanship

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

Marketing Craftmanship

In terms of demographics, it’s telling that Twitter’s top 3 profiles belong to Justin Bieber, Lady GaGa and Katy Perry, but if your B2B firm needs quantitative evidence to support dropping these social media platforms, here is some recent research from Pew Research Center : Use YouTube Selectively. Build Your LinkedIn Presence.

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Avoid the Carnival Barker Approach to Publicity

Marketing Craftmanship

If you’ve been interviewed on CNN or the local news, post that video on YouTube , and be sure to include a written commentary that gives your video additional context and marketing value.

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Is Your Web Content a Marketing Liability?

Marketing Craftmanship

For a host of political and practical reasons, inappropriate and ineffective web content gets posted; sorely outdated content is granted lifetime tenure; and assorted layers of information…in WORD documents, PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, webinars…all obscure the company’s core messages and brand positioning goals.

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The Real Price We All Pay for “Brand Journalism”

Marketing Craftmanship

We live in a world where our knowledge, perceptions and culture are shaped by Google searches, Facebook posts and YouTube videos, and where technology and economic forces have created the perfect Petri dish for commercial agendas to overwhelm the volume and attention given to objective editorial interests.

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

In this 2-minute YouTube clip , Schmertz (who is now 83 years-old) eloquently describes how Mobil’s confrontational and sometimes abrasive public relations strategy reflected the company’s obligation, as a custodian of significant physical, human and economic resources, to maintain its role as one of the pillars of a free society.