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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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(Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009

Webbiquity

Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Every social media consultant , corporate marketer and PR professional was challenged to keep up with the latest writing on the topic. by YouTube. 2009 in Review: The Rise of Social Media by The Milwaukee SEO. Amber Naslund.

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer

When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in a place to spend thousands of dollars a month for formal PR support and couldn’t justify the cost for this “top of the funnel” marketing.

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What’s So Funny About Social Media and Online Marketing?

Webbiquity

From social media cartoons and contextual advertising gone wrong to dysfunctional agency-client relationships and the best (and worst) online ads, here are some of the most amusing, creative and remarkable blog posts and videos of 2009. Advertising & PR. Billy Mays’ Resurrectifier Commercial – YouTube.

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

Back in 2006, David Meerman Scott had a done comprehensive analysis over a nine-month period of the large number of meaningless phrases used in corporate marketing and PR materials. Let me end this post with a humorous video that I found on YouTube. The use of buzzwords or clichés in B2B marketing content is not a new trend.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you maximize the business value of tools like LinkedIn and Twitter? tools (delicious, Feedburner, LinkedIn et al.),

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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I will spare Jay’s blog the list of the 70 videos we did, outside of YouTube, since most of them were made before YouTube existed. link] and you can “independently verify&# the 80,000+ views so far in the past 10 days since uploading it since this one is hosted on YouTube. Im Jay Baer.