Dell's Take Your Own Path campaign is a very smart combination of traditional PR and social media. The campaign features pioneering entrepreneurs and showcases how their use of Dell technology helps make their businesses successful. What led to this bright idea? Listening to their market of SMBs. Dell research shows that these companies make purchase decisions “based … [Read more...]
Social Media Adoption Now Over 80%
For the past few years Forrester Research has been tracking the adoption of social media in different categories: Creators, who write content and make podcasts and videos Critics, who post comments, ratings and reviews Collectors, who use RSS Feeds to gather information, those who tag and share content Joiners, who create profiles on social networking sites and … [Read more...]
Reaching Multi Cultural Audiences with Social Media
PRSA-LA held their first multicultural group meeting with a panel about using social media in diverse audiences. Panel members were Jose Villa of Sensis Communications, Chase Wang of BAM! Marketing, Alan Breslauer, deputy for info, tech and new media for Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas and me. … [Read more...]
Online Video – Your Best PR Opportunity
PR is about telling a brand story. Video is a great medium for telling stories and video viewing online is showing rapid growth. The cost of making a video for online is negligible and it is a great PR opportunity. Video search and blog search were the best performers in Google's stable in 2007, based on consumer data. The data gathered on 2008 Internet usage in … [Read more...]
Marketing to Women in Social Media
Women are responsible for more than $5 trillion dollars of spending every year. We're a growing economic force in the world and more companies are recognizing the need to understand our preferences in much greater depth. SheSpeaks.com is a community of smart women created around this idea. "What if, as women, we could get together in large numbers and tell companies what we … [Read more...]
