According to the CMO Club 81% of CMO's plan to link their annual revenue to their social media investment! But other studies show that many CMO's are still confused about how to effectively integrate social media with their marketing and PR programs. We often get asked whether a company should do it all in-house or outsource to an agency. Since the idea is to hold … [Read more...]
Twitter and Facebook Influencing Purchase Decisions
A recent study of social media usage makes it quite clear that people who become Facebook fans and Twitter followers of a brand are more likely to not only recommend, but they are also more likely to buy from those brands than they were before becoming fans/followers. And it seems that Twitter is the more influential 79% of Twitter followers are more likely to … [Read more...]
Search, Video and the Future of PR: Greg Jarboe at OMS 2010
The Online Marketing Summit in San Diego was held at the beautiful Paradise Point Resort this year. I caught up with Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR after one of the keynote sessions and talked to him about search, video and public relations. According to comScore the second most popular site where searches are conducted is YouTube, Music is the number one genre of videos … [Read more...]
US Regions Collaborate for Travel Marketing Online
Steve Paganelli, DMO Strategist at TIG Global spoke at the North American Journeys Summit West last week. We caught up with him at the break and asked him some questions about his session and the case study he presented. Steve explained how several of the regions in the US are collaborating to make their international online marketing more effective - specially since … [Read more...]
Online Buzz, Reputation and The Power of Voice
Back in 2006 while I was working a paper with Rok Hrastnik we called the phenomenon of online buzz and reputation The Power of Voice. Since then many companies have felt that power - positively and negatively. Dell, Dominoes, Naked Pizza, Motrin, Blendtec to name just a few. Nestle has now joined the list. Nestle is embarking on an emergency online PR campaign to … [Read more...]
