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Top Trends and Strategies for Successful Holiday Marketing Campaigns

QuanticMind

It feels strange to say this so early in the calendar year, but the holidays really are fast approaching—and, with them, the need to start planning your holiday campaigns. What does that planning entail? And what trends, data, and forecasts are driving your holiday planning needs?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. As you know better than I, we are in the early innings of social media. My hunch is that, as more organizations are able to successfully utilize social media, the dominoes will start to fall. IT projects.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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It's Time for Real-Time

Convince & Convert

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. But fundamentally, we’ve done very little in response to social media – perhaps the most transformative change of them all. Here are a few options for titles.

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Is Social Conversation a Myth?

Convince & Convert

August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. The customers that take you to task in social media aren’t the ones you need to worry about. Because you’re not on the other end of the phone. Good luck on the move!