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In Part III of this lesson, students will have the opportunity to complete an interactive exercise that will take them on a historical tour of the stock market from Post WWII through the year 2001. Students will learn the difference between a buy and hold vs market timing strategy as it relates to investing. Part III of this exercise is a continuation of Part II which took the student through the major market events from 1920 through WWII.
In this lesson students will learn about the impact that efficient markets have on attempting to correctly time the stock market, as well as how investing in stocks should have long-term investment goals. Part I begins by having students read and discuss a story. A small exercise is included which demonstrates that predicting what a stock does next is not so easy. Parts II and III takes the student through an interactive historical simulation giving the student a chance to make decisions about investing in the U.S. stock market.
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Event Summary
the last several months, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), a global provider
of extended ERP applications for world-class mid-sized manufacturers, has embarked
on a painstaking process of producing a strategy going forward that would pragmatically
blend the company's traditional values and success factors with new approaches
to stay in tune with market trends. During this time, the company has been energized
with a new functional structure and an expanded executive management team. It
has evolved its marketing and revamped its solutions to focus on business issues
and specific discrete manufacturing verticals and to thereby appeal to existing
and prospective customers. The executive team includes a new chief financial
officer (CFO), chief technology executive (CTE), chief marketing executive (CME)
and senior vice president of North American sales persons to fill both existing
and newly created positions.
Still, the company has not departed from its conservative approach of delivering practical innovations and bulletproof applications for its customers, and from its proverbial fiscal discipline. Despite largely flat revenues for the last few years and a major acquisition cost (see Figure 1), the company still has an impressive cash amount of nearly $24 million, while $19 million debt has been paid off during last 12 months.
October 30, MAPICS reported net income according to Generally Accepted Accounting
Practices (GAAP) for the fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2002, of
$4.0 million, including a gain of $2.3 million from the settlement of a royalty
obligation, versus a hefty loss of $26.3 million, in the year-earlier period
(see Figure 1).
Primarily represents a goodwill write down of the PivotPoint acquisition
the Company reported adjusted earnings for the fourth quarter of $2.7 million,
compared with $2.6 million, or in the year-earlier period. Adjusted earnings
represent income before goodwill amortization, restructuring charge and other
items, net of income taxes. Revenue for Q4 2002 totaled $30.5 million, a 13%
drop versus $35.2 million a year ago. For the fiscal year ended September 30,
2002, the Company reported net income (GAAP) of $13.7 million, compared with
a loss of $27.0 million in fiscal 2001. MAPICS reported adjusted earnings for
fiscal 2002 of $9.9 million, compared with adjusted earnings of $7.6 million
in fiscal 2001. Still, total revenue for fiscal 2002 was $128.3 million, a 7%
drop compared with $138.2 million in fiscal 2001 (see Figure 2).
As a result, throughout October, MAPICS has been given a flurry of accolades and Top Lists inclusions by many magazines and other institutions:
is Part One of a four-part article on MAPICS.
Two will discuss the Market Impact.
Three will cover Challenges.
Four will discuss Competition and make User Recommendations.
Strategic Alliance With IBM
for its go-to-market strategy, on September 26, MAPICS and IBM Corporation
(NYSE: IBM), the largest IT company in the world and MAPICS' biological parent
from a way back in 1978, announced a strategic alliance to deliver solutions
that tightly integrate business functions and improve collaboration between
suppliers and customers. The combined IBM/MAPICS solutions will target mid-market
manufacturers in the electronics, automotive, heavy equipment and industrial
equipment industries, as it is believed that manufacturing industries hold the
most interest in ERP initiatives, as these companies are constantly looking
for means to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies in the face
of increased global competition.
IBM /MAPICS solutions will include a combination of flexible MAPICS enterprise
solutions on a scalable infrastructure of IBM consisting of IBM eServer iSeries
hardware, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ message queuing
middleware, and IBM Business Innovation Services are currently used by
some of the world's leading manufacturers, such as Volvo, Bayer,
Pemstar, and Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift Europe (MCFE).
Under the terms of the strategic alliance, MAPICS and IBM will jointly market
MAPICS enterprise solutions, which include applications focused on addressing
the major challenges facing manufacturers today, including:
value-based applications are supported by IBM WebSphere Application Server and
WebSphere MQ operating on IBM eServer iSeries and xSeries hardware. IBM
will also provide consulting, customization and integration services for joint
IBM and MAPICS implementations.
May, MAPICS has also been one of the first enterprise application providers
to support the Linux environment running on the IBM iSeries platform. MAPICS
believes to be well aligned with IBM's strategy to further accelerate the adoption
of Linux-based solutions and intends to fully support solutions developed by
Red Hat. The combined technology of MAPICS ERP for iSeries and
Linux for iSeries should supposedly provide improved benefits including
greater stability, reliability, scalability, performance and cost savings.
MAPICS ERP for iSeries' open, Java-based architecture, which features fat-client Desktop, thin-client Internet and wireless deployment, should provide a flexible technology for the iSeries platform to empower manufacturers to, e.g., collaborate more effectively over the Internet, improve customer service, deliver products faster and make better business decisions. In addition to providing users an economical way to deploy e-business server applications, the Linux operating system is reportedly highly scaleable for a large number of transactions and supports rapid innovations by constantly offering new features for users. Its single operating system across server platforms provides easy development, maintenance and skills deployment, and it is also increasingly being used as an application development platform for Web and Web application servers and to drive wireless devices and Internet applications.
Tailored Solutions and One Brand
another matter, MAPICS' recent organizational realignment will focus on selling
tailored solutions, which include various enterprise resource planning (ERP),
supply chain management ( SCM), product lifecycle management (PLM), plant maintenance,
and eBusiness collaboration components to address the unique business challenges
of selected world-class manufacturing environments. The company has to that
end been eliminating the use of multiple product logos and names. MAPICS is
now structuring all offerings around one brand -- MAPICS (be it ERP, SCM, Portal,
etc.) and its offerings will no longer be referred to by their current names,
i.e. MAPICS XA, Point.Man, Thru-Put, and Maincor.
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Swallowed a Jawbreaker!
So, as it may sound funny, it's not. Here's the story. I just came back from Germany, with lots of candy. One day, as I was laying down in my bed reading, I was smart enough to have two jawbreaks in my mouth. All of a sudden, oh decided to just slip down my throat. So I had a mini panic attack, ran to the kitchen and drank lots of water.
I laughed at myself, and said wow. Don't do that again and thought that was the end of it.:shock:
Well the next day, I started to have stomach pains, I didn't think anything of it until it remained. Cramps coming on and off. I thought about the jawbreaker and told my mom. We all thought nahh that can't be it, stomach acids would have eaten it since it wasn't that big so we thought maybe it was just a little stomach bug.
Sure enough after a few days of pain, we went to the doctor, got an ex ray and the next day she informed us that there is a Jawbreaker working it's way through my colon.:-o
Here i am 7 days later and still in pain hoping this passes!
If not, within a few more days, I will have to have it surgically removed.
SO the moral of the story is-- never lay down with a jawbreaker in your mouth!
Well, thanks for the warning. Lol. It is kinda funny, but I hope you don't have to have surgery!!!
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Thanks! Everyone says it's kind of funny. But that's the truth. the painful truth :)
Also what's your name mean? I love somethingy? Right?
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Yes, it's German. Means I love horses.
of course:)
Ouch, didn't even know that could happen. Haha. Well I hope it passes and no surgery is needed!:D
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Well i was hoping for you to make this post, I´ll definetly watch a show with Joseph on it, I´m not sure if i like or care about Hayley. But my biggest fear is that Klaus will never come back to MF or the story of Klaroline will never happend and i think their story will never be able to develope completly.
I don´t know why but Im not really excited about this. This means that Klaus will have to leave TVD in God knows what circumstances. Second of all we won´t have Klaroline in that new series insted we will get Hayley, and i dont like her. I don´t know if that series is going to be a good idea, it could be great or it could suck big time. We´ll see
I feel kind of dissapointed with the last 2 episodes. The series was on a really good path exploring Delena and Klaroline and all of the sudden was ruined. I feel like the writers dont wanna explore Klaus and Caroline anymore. It feels like they are afraid or insecured about it. And now it´s more impossible for them to develope a relationship or sexual tension because of Klaus actions. Also I don´t like how are they developing Caroline. They´re making her like the Caroline from season 1, and lets face it, she was lame in season 1. Any way I just hope this get better with time.
Wow. You got it just right, i really feel diapointed. I was more interested in the pic where Klaus was so close to Caroline and THAT NEVER EVEN HAPPEND.WTF!!!!! that was lame!!!!!! Where is that scene, oh wait maybe got cut out to fit in more blah blah Elena blah. My whole 2 week hiatus revolve around that picture, i really wanted to cry at the end. I think that whole sire is just bs. And Im hoping it isnt true.
OMG! i just can believe it! someone on the review of last week episode wrote that this was going to happen, im more suprise to know that it was true, he must be working on the set or the production because it happend exactly what he said. Im sad because i really like Shane, even when he got all crazy and that, but sooner or later i knew he was going to go. But the last craziness atack was lori's fault, all the things she said to him trigger something in his mind, his dead is all her fault. i hope she die soon
I really am intrigued by the fac that esther wanted to turn them back!! That will be a very interesting plot , also did you notice that the only one who wasnt afected by kol being daggered was Klaus he felt it but didnt "die" that must mean something we just need to se what. And also i LOVE Klaus and Caroline i m dying to see more of that but she is really mean with him i dont see how could she foregive him, i really love to watch that side of Klaus like if he were a teenage boy LOVED IT
after i watch the episode i must admit that i was kind of disapointed because i was rooting for more klaroline but i feel that is never going to happend, she´s still in love with Tyler and the rejection against Klaus was really strong and true. I belive Elijah didnt drank the champagne, i saw in his eyes that he knew something wasnt right with Elena. If this show really kill all the originals as Esther planned i dont see how could this go on. I dont want them dead
i agree in almost everything, it will be interesting to see how will they cope with the ending of Sophia, i hope Shane doesnt get to crazy.
i was so nervous when shane open the barn doors, it was the best 10 min of the entire hours but the end, you are right when you said that the sophia storyline was kind of long and boring. But the end of it was so unexpected. i kinda have hope that they will find her but she ending like that was sooo sad, it was painful like you said. i hope for the second half of the season that Shane doesnt loose his mind like he did in this episode, maybe he show more of his soft spot, also he needs to get over Lori once and for all and maybe hookup more with Andrea.
i dont know why you put Dan in the daddy question! as far as i know blair and dan never had sex. it can only be Chuck or Louis i belive is Chuck but that will be too obvious for the show to go on that direction


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Members of our information technology (IT) team do more than code and QA all day. Our organic, homegrown approach to IT means that we have built—not bought—most of our applications. This gives us greater flexibility to add features and implement new technology, all in a setting where everyone's ideas are sought out, heard and valued.
Our tech folks partner with cross-functional teams to build high performance, architecturally sound and scalable systems that align to the needs of Provide Commerce's ever-changing business. Employees have the unique opportunity to see firsthand the results of their work as our platform expands to handle the rapid growth in the e-commerce arena. There is no hesitation about trying new technologies that can positively impact our work and our end users' experience.
In an effort to produce a consistent, robust technology platform, we encourage employees to learn and utilize new technologies. Our infrastructure was designed to enable us to focus on innovation rather than fixing broken or unreliable code.
In order to make smart business decisions, we rely on the analytics to be our "internal consultants" to the business and interpret data, translate insights and devise recommendations to consistently have a positive impact on our business.
This can involve designing, implementing and examining test results, as well as providing critical information to make organizational decisions. Analytics covers areas such as:
Testing can cut across multiple functions or relate to functions that don't otherwise have the required analytics resources. This team often acts as a critical partner and supporting function for the marketing, finance, supply chain operations, and merchandising departments.
In short, the analytics team does more than crunch numbers. They provide the foundation to take action that evolves and improves Provide Commerce as a whole.
This team is responsible for generating nearly half of the organization's revenue and plays an integral role in the day-to-day operations of the business. The department manages online and offline channels such as TV, print, email, radio, PPC, display, SEO, social media, affiliates, shopping feeds, and more.
Unlike other companies of our size, we do almost everything internally. This gives us complete transparency on marketing effectiveness, costs and other details that often become cloudy when working with an agency or third party. We know our company best—that's why we are happy to promote it ourselves.
E-commerce is a constantly evolving and growing channel. The proliferation of new marketing opportunities is what makes this group exciting and fun, but also incredibly challenging. The rise of social and mobile, along with group buying and other new customer channels, offer new challenges and opportunities.
Our overall level of analytics is rigorous and invigorating. We understand instrumentality, cost per order, lifetime value, and other metrics down to the cent. This knowledge allows us to optimize spending activities and associated revenue in near real-time over peak periods.
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Our customers count on us the most during peak times, so we've assembled a team of smart and creative people to help find new ways to continually improve our service. For example, when Valentine's Day fell on a Sunday, we were challenged with building a delivery network with FedEx to create the first-ever Sunday delivery program. It's that kind of disruptive innovation and savvy problem-solving that makes us a premium e-commerce retailer.
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During peak times, associates have the opportunity able to step into more senior roles that allow them to grow while being exposed to other areas of our business and are key to our success in ramping up for peaks. Our members make working fun, and enjoy a collective work setting that brings out their specific talents and strengths.
Here's what one of our customers had to say:
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Vote for Your Favorite Marketing Blogs on MarketingSherpaWednesday, June 6th, 2012
Time to stuff the ballot box again! MarketingSherpa is once again out to find the best marketing blogs across a range of categories, based on reader votes. The nominating "primaries" are over, and it's time for the blog-reading public to select the winners.
No speeches, no (terribly) controversial positions, no fundraising (thankfully), just your chance to acknowledge your favorite marketing blogs.
So here's my "voter guide" to the MarketingSherpa slate of candidates, but like any vote, it's your call. Let you voice be heard! Vote for your favorites today.
Best Email Marketing Blog nominees
I'm partial to Janine Popick so I'd vote for the VerticalResponse blog. But as with every category and entrant here, there are no bad choices!
Best B2B Marketing Blog nominees
Um, Webbiquity, of course!
Best E-Commerce Blog nominees
Ooh, tough call—both really solid choices.
Best Inbound Blog nominees
Okay, now this just isn't right; this is arguably the most difficult vote of the bunch. Both of these are outstanding inbound marketing blogs. HubSpot needs no introduction, and features remarkable bloggers like Laura Fitton, Peter Caputa and Rebecca Corliss.
Kuno is a real contender in this race though, featuring thought leaders like John McTigue, Chad Pollitt and Duce Knipper (okay, Duce isn't really big on thought leadership, but he's cool anyway). I like Kuno as the "underdog," but wow, you've got to go with your gut on this one.
Best Copywriting Blog nominees
Lightning & the Lighting Bug—going with the underdog again.
Best PPC (pay-per-click advertising) Blog nominees
This is a question, seriously? No disrespect to the contenders, but PPC Hero is the standout choice here.
Best SEO (search engine optimization) Blog nominees
inBlurbs. This is a real David vs. Goliath matchup, and I'm pulling for David.
Best Marketing Strategy Blog nominees
No pick here, but no bad choice.
Best Social Media Marketing Blog nominees
I liked the VerticalResponse blog in the email marketing category above, but for social media? No question, the Blue Focus Marketing blog hands-down. Cheryl Burgess and Mark Burgess are a must-read for social media marketing and branding strategy.
Best Viral Marketing Blog nominees
I have to go with Jeff Bullas on this. He's a perpetual font of knowledge.
Marketing Operations Blog nominees
Another tough pick; I'll go with Chief Marketing Technologist as I gave the nod to inBlurbsfor best SEO blog above.
Best Design Blog nominees
Both very solid choices, but for website design, Smashing Magazine is really, really good.
Best Optimization Blog nominees
Flip a coin on this one, once again two excellent choices.
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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Few phenomena have ever spread as far and grown as rapidly as social media; obviously, this has tapped into something essential to our nature. What is it? The answer may come from the email marketing field. According to a recent study by email service provider Aweber, four simple words virtually guaranteed to get an email opened are: "You are not alone."
That is what has driven social media adoption. From freedom seekers living under oppressive regimes connecting with each other and with people around the world who support them, to individuals with uncommon viewpoints or highly specialized professional interests connected with the like-minded anywhere on the globe, social media is about not being alone. It's a way to find and form relationships with others who share our particular interests and passions, whether down the street or on other continents; interesting people with whom there has been no practical way to engage before.
Talking recently with Cheryl Burgess (@ckburgess)—partner and CMO at Blue Focus Marketing, a B2B social branding consultancy firm in Bridgewater, New Jersey; 2011 & 2010 winner of the Twitter Shorty Awards in Marketing; and author of the Blue Focus Marketing Blog—we were both struck by how many of the same people we know through social media (and we both learned about some interesting new people to follow as well). Many of these were other B2B marketers, but others were social media experts, journalists, PR professionals, or just plain fascinating personalities.
Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. We decided to recognize and share the names of some of these noteworthy individuals with our respective readers and followers, starting today with 50 remarkable women (just in time for Mother's Day, as we're pretty certain that every woman on this list either is a mom, has a mom, knows someone who's a mom, or some combination thereof).
One source of inspiration was Twitter's Top 75 Badass Women by Diana Adams (@adamsconsulting) and Amy D. Howell (@HowellMarketing), a list on which Cheryl was honored. Though it's a remarkable list, to keep ours distinct we haven't duplicated any of Diana and Amy's picks.
Next month, we are following up with our list of 50 men, just in time for Father's Day. This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess' Blue Focus Marketing Blog. Whatever your role in social media, we hope you find this list valuable in expanding your knowledge and your network.
Jennifer Aaker
Jennifer is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School or Business, and author of The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change.
Diana Adams
Diana is a USC grad now based in Atlanta. She heads up Adams Consulting Group, a technical services firm specializing in Apple Macintosh desktops, servers and laptops. Diana writes for BitRebels.com and InkRebels.com, and as noted above, her post on Twitter's Top 75 Badass Women was one source of inspiration for this #Nifty50 list. She's smart, personable, sometimes controversial and never dull.
Alicia Arenas
Hailing from San Antonio, Alicia is founder and CEO of Sanera, a professional development and training firm for sales and business leaders. She describes herself as a "small business coach, speaker, corporate trainer, blogger, singer, lover of life, dreams, family and God." Alicia is a warm and outgoing social media pro and creator of March Marketing Madness.
Allison Mooney
Allison lives in the New York City area and works with the Marketing team at Google to explore the changing face of media, mobile and consumer behavior, drive new thinking internally, and communicate Google's visionary concepts to wider audiences.
Ambal Balakrishnan
Ambal is co-founder of ClickDocuments, based in Silicon Valley. She's an entrepreneur, marketer, blogger, and alum of Wharton and Purdue. Her Connect the Docs blog—frequently featured on the B2B Marketing Zone—is a platform for her own thought leadership content as well as frequently solicited insights from other B2B bloggers.
Amber Buhl
Director of Sales for @klout. Though fairly new to Twitter, Amber is active and highly engaging, and her following is likely to grow quickly. A USC grad, Amber's past includes stints at Hulu, Yahoo!, and the E! Entertainment Network.
Amy Nelson
Amy serves as social media editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press as well as the Features/Travel editor for the newspaper. She's an informative and prolific Twitterer, and active in Twin Cities social media.
Ardath Albee
A B2B marketer, strategist, writer and Author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale. Friend, mentor, and source of inspiration. Also an expatriate Minnesotan now living in southern California (we miss her, but can't blame her).
Angie Schottmuller
Interactive Minnesotan skilled in web strategy, conversion rate optimization (CRO), e-commerce, SEO, social media, QR codes (she knows a lot about QR codes), design, UX, analytics and inbound marketing. Angie is also a Search Engine Watch columnist and speaks at national events including SMX, SES, and OMS.
Becky Denniston
Expert Community Manager with the Focus Expert Network, a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who answer questions and post thought leadership content. Becky is also an MBA Candidate at San Francisco State University with a strong appetite for Social Media and Marketing.
Jenara Nerenberg
Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad. She's interviewed the famous and not-so-famous from high fashion superstars to up-and-coming designers to UN leaders, literary giants, cashmere producers, and royal mistresses, and her work has also appeared in TIME, BlackBook Magazine, and NextBillion.
Maria Popova
Brooklyn-based Maria calls herself an "interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, storytelling and TED." She's also the editor of Brain Pickings and writes regularly for Wired UK magazine, The Atlantic and Design Observer.
Connie Bensen
Connie is the Community Strategist for the Alterian (formerly Techrigy) SM2 social media monitoring platform. She's been named by Forbes.com as one of 20 top Women Social Media & Marketing Bloggers. Connie recently migrated from the frozen tundra of northern Minnesota to much balmier climate of Minneapolis.
Deirdre Breakenridge
Diedre is the president of Mango! Marketing, author of PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences and Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR, an adjunct professor in the New York city area, and co-founder of #PRStudChat.
Deborah Weinstein
Deb is a journalist-turned-PR pro. She's president of Strategic Objectives, an award-winning PR agency in Toronto. And she's energetic and inspirational on Twitter.
Eileen O'Brien
Eileen has more than 14 years of digital healthcare marketing experience. She is an opinion leader on social media, and has been invited to speak at industry conferences and quoted in publications. As @eileenobrien she moderates the #SocPharm tweetchat on Wednesdays at 8 pm EST which discusses pharma marketing and social media.
Ekaterina Walter
Oregon-based Ekaterina is a corporate social media strategist as well as a "speaker, connector (and) passionate marketer." She's also a frequent guest-poster who's written bookmarkable pieces like 9 Ways to Sell Social Media to the Boss.
Ellen Hoenig Carlson
Based in New Jersey, Ellen is focused on simplifying consumer and healthcare marketing for "elegant solutions in a complex world." Though she writes mainly on pharma-related subjects, her blog topics also include branding, family, fundraising, innovation, leadership, and Twitter.
Ellen McGirt
Ellen writes for Fast Company magazine and helps run the 30 Second MBA site.
Elise Segar
Connecticut-based Elise is active in social media, an enterprise technology sales and business development pro who is passionate about inside sales and sales strategy. She's a fellow member of the #Lebronians team "drafted" by Robert Rose in FollowFriday & Who's The Lebron In Your Strategy – Maybe It's You.
Gail Nelson
CMO with Siegel + Gale, a brand strategy, customer experience and design consulting agency in New York.
Gini Dietrich
CEO of Chicago PR agency Arment Dietrich, author of spinsucks.com, Vistage member, author, speaker, communicator and writer of amazingly entertaining and insightful rants like Get Rich Quick! Lose Weight Tomorrow!.
Gretchen Rubin
Based in New York City, Gretchen is the best-selling author of The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, the account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how to be happier. On her blog, she shares her insights to help readers create their own happiness projects.
Heidi Cohen
Heidi is a fascinating marketer who shares practical advice about marketing and life from New York, NY.
Jill Konrath
Minnesota-based keynote speaker, sales trainer, motivator, creator of fresh strategies for selling to crazy-busy people; author of SNAP Selling (#1 Amazon sales book) and Selling to Big Companies.
Judy Grundstrom
Minnesota social media rock star, Business Development Director at Pixel Farm Digital, founder of the annual Twin Cities Top 10 Titans in Social Media awards, talk show regular on myTalk 107.1, and never boring.
Karen Emanuelson
Karen heads Reciprocate LLC, a small business marketing consultancy in Minneapolis. She's an expert in social media marketing (particularly LinkedIn optimization), a small business advocate, trainer, speaker and coach. She's active in local community and business organizations as well as social media.
Katie Rosman
Katie reports on technology and pop-culture for one of the world's greatest newspapers—the Wall Street Journal—and is the author of If You Knew Suzy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Reporter's Notebook.
Eve Mayer Orsburn
Eve is the author of Social Media for the CEO: The Why and ROI of Social Media for the CEO of Today and Tomorrow and CEO of Social Media Delivered, a firm that helps companies leverage LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook & blogs. And yes, she really knows LinkedIn.
Lisa Petrilli
Based in Chicago, Lisa is CEO of C-Level Strategies Inc, CEO Connection Co-Chair, Leadership & Executive Marketing Consultant, and #LeadershipChat co-Founder. Like Elise Segar and Cheryl Burgess, Lisa is a star of the #Lebronians team.
Liz Strauss
Liz is the founder of SOBCon, a brand strategist and leadership trainer based in Chicago. She's also an insightful, prolific and generous social media presence.
Lorna Li
Officially, an expert in inbound marketing, online visibility and personal branding, via social media, SEO and SEM. Also big on green business marketing. Unofficially – friendly, smart, and writer of many highly bookmarkable blog posts.
Lucretia M. Pruitt
Living in and tweeting from beautiful Denver, Lucretia refers to herself as a "random muse, speaker, ex-CIS Professor, social media devotee, geek, mom, wife, & insomniac." Lucretia is a highly engaging and sophisticated observer of technology developments.
Lisa Grimm
Digital PR Specialist for the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, Lisa describes herself as "a gal constantly awed by the intricacies of human behavior. Love my family, peeps, dogs, film, food and learning."
Mari Smith
Mari (like Ferrari) describes herself as a "passionate leader of social media, relationship marketing and Facebook mastery," but most of us know her as the ultimate guru-ess of Facebook marketing and co-author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day. Formerly Canadian, now living in San Diego (nicer weather, but even worse taxes).
Missy Berggren
A phenomenally busy yet amazingly prolific blogger, Missy is a marketing pro at healthcare network Allina, co-founder of the Minnesota Blogger Conference, and is also active social media as the MarketingMama.
Martine Hunter
Idea generator, b2b marketing professional, creative director, process engineer and writer at MLT Creative in Atlanta, as well as a mother, friend, sister, daughter, diabetic, crocheter and jazz fan. She's also really nice.
Sally Church
Sally is a scientist with Icarus Consultants in New Jersey, a pharmaceutical / biotechnology-focused marketing strategy firm. She blogs about marketing strategy, market research, science, oncology, hematology and immunology.
Michelle Tripp
Working and tweeting from New York, Michelle is a creative director, brand strategist, and author of The BrandForward Blog. She spends her time exploring the future of advertising, social media, and emerging technologies and just being pretty cool.
Jennifer Preston
A staff writer for the New York Times, Jennifer writes about the use of technology and social media in politics, government, and real life.
Susan Kang Nam
Splitting her time between New York, Andover (MA) and elsewhere, the dynamic Susan Kang Nam is founder of Cebisu Research Inc., a member of Andover's Harvard Club, founder of Boston-based career club Salty Legs, "an entrepreneur, former recruiter and non-profit advocate who grew up in Asia (Korea, Japan) and US (Hawaii, California, New Jersey, NYC) and since 1994…using the world wide web exploring different platforms to engage in various of conversations"—and a classical pianist.
Laura Fitton
Prolific Twitterer, Bostonite, CEO and founder of the oneforty social business software hub, as well as co-author of Twitter For Dummies.
Rebel Brown
Rebel has been a marketing and business consulting for more than 20 years, is a popular speaker and author of Defy Gravity. She's also a self-described "spiritual seeker, horse crazy, ski freak, and animal lovin' nature gal."
Rebecca Corliss
Based in Boston, Rebecca is a singing Inbound Marketer with all-in-one marketing software platform developer HubSpot. She's also a founder of a cappella group Common Sound. And yes, she is a rock star.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Harvard Business School Professor, author of SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good – a look at how a new generation of values-driven businesses do well by doing good, and a living legend in the world of business strategy.
Stacey Acevero
A social media communications manager for PR/social media monitoring provider Vocus in Washington DC, Stacey runs the popular monthly #prwebchat on Twitter. She is a former model, auxiliary member in the U.S. Air Force, and a self-proclaimed "SEO nerd" who loves NASCAR, steak and rock n' roll. Definitely one of the most awesome and unique bios in social media.
Anita Campbell
CEO of Small Business Trends, an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month. Anita tweets from Cleveland, Ohio, the hometown of rock n' roll.
Liana 'Li' Evans
Liana describes herself as "an online marketing geek girl who loves all things social media." She's a top expert in social media and SEO, and the author of Social Media Marketing.
Wendy Blackburn
Wendy is a blogger and digital marketer focused on the pharmaceutical industry. She's an executive vice president at at Intouch Solutions, a marketing agency serving the pharmaceutical, animal health, medical device, and similarly regulated industries.
Wendy Marx
Based in Trumbull, CT, Wendy is an award-winning PR and marketing communications executive who helps B2B companies become well-known brands, and a truly engaging social media personality.
There you have it, the Nifty 50 Women of Twitter for this year. To keep it to 50, we had to leave off some deserving names—it was a tough call. Maybe next year…
Watch next month (close to Father's Day) for the Nifty 50 Men of Twitter for 2011.
78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)Monday, August 16th, 2010
With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook's user base or Lindsay Lohan's court appearances, it's tough to keep up. Here's a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch, Lori Dicker, Lee Odden, Lisa Barone, Jay Baer and many more.
Social Media Marketing Tips, Tactics and Guides
Building Social Bookmarking Networks 101 by Search Engine Journal
Todd Heim supplies a helpful guide to best practices for building a following on and generating traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx and Propeller. Todd's guidance is straightforward and practical; finding the time to do this well is the hard part.
HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable
Matt Silverman steps through the process of creating cool custom backgrounds for popular social media sites, with easy-to-follow instructions and rich example illustrations.
What is Social Media Optimization and Why Should I Care? by Kuno Creative
For those who know little if anything about social media (there are more such people than you may realize; some in rather lofty positions at that), John McTigue offers an excellent primer covering the most popular tools, sites and strategies.
30 Tips: The Productivity Guide of Social Media by WebStudio 13
Andrew Ran Wong provides a valuable list of productivity tips for Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Google and other social networks to help readers get more done in less time.
5 Ways That Sales People Can Benefit From Using Social Media by OPEN Forum
Despite the widespread use of the phrase "social media marketing," marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.
6 tips for connecting with social media content by iMedia Connection
Noting that "Smart and savvy companies have positioned themselves as authoritative experts and trusted sources of information by creating their own content," Gordon Plutsky outlines a six-step process for consistently connecting with prospects through relevant, compelling content.
10 Principles for B2B Sales by Better Closer
Social media has dramatically altered the buying process as well as marketing practices. In this post, Bill Rice provides sales people with 10 principles for using social media in sales, from setting objectives and listening to creativity and tools to improve social media efficiency. Given the importance of sales-marketing alignment, this is a worthwhile read for marketers as well.
Are you reaching your Best Customers through social media? by Cultivating Your Customers
Mark Price summarizes a Fast Company case study on how restaurant chain Houlihan's engaged their best customers through some exclusive social media programs to increase sales and profits, and what other social media marketers can learn from the chain's experience.
A Cheat Sheet to Help You Conquer Social Media by Fast Company
Not sure how to navigate through various social media sites? Addy Dugdale shares this handy CMO guide to the social landscape, which "takes all the major social media sites in the U.S. and analyzes their capabilities in four sectors: customer communication, brand exposure, driving traffic to your site, and SEOs."
5 Ways to Use Social Media for Things You Are Already Doing by Social Media Today
Possibly inspired by Social Media is Simpler Than You Think, John Jantsch explores five ways to use social media for common business tasks such as prospect follow-up and market research.
10 Essential Social Media Tips for B2B Marketers by Mashable
Christina Warren tells b2b marketers how to use Twitter effectively, find their "social voice," efficiently monitor industry developments through social media, expand their influence and more in this excellent post.
How to Monitor Your Social Media Presence in 10 Minutes a Day by HubSpot Blog
Rebecca Corliss reveals an easy five-step, 10-minute daily process for keeping on eye on what's being said about your company across popular social media venues. Depending on how active your company is in social media, it may take a bit more than 10 minutes and may have to be done more than once per day, but at a minimum this is a great place to start.
10 Tips for Using Social Bookmarking Sites Effectively by Online Social Networking
Larry Brauner shows how to use a "very social and spam-free strategy" to dramatically increase website traffic from social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Amplify.
8 brand personalities Facebook and Twitter users hate by iMedia Connection
If you want to be a success in social media, then you definitely don't want to be part of any of these groups. Kevin Barenblat presentes a taxonomy of social media failure types, including "canned responders," spammers, lurkers and serial re-tweeters.
More than 50 bookmarks of Social Media Case Studies by Social Media Tactics You Can Trust
Michiel Gaasterland shares his collected list of 500+ case studies, from small businesses to global brands around the globe.
5 Workarounds In Avoiding Social Media Fluster by Social Media Philippines
The always fascinating Rob Angeles how to ramp up a social marketing quickly without simply "jumping in" with no plan.
6 Reasons You're Not Rocking Social Media by Small Business Trends
For those whose social media marketing programs aren't quite meeting expectations, Lisa Barone offers several possible reasons (and advice on how to fix things), such as having poor content, putting the wrong people in charge or simply not listening.
10 signs it's time for a social media makeover by iMedia Connection
Following on the theme of Lisa's post above, Lori Dicker offers a collection of indicators that your social media marketing has gone astray such as "An intern handles all your social media efforts" and "Your company does not have a (written) social media policy" and how to place efforts on the right track.
3 Simple Steps for Creating Social Media Visibility by Social Media Examiner
For those still struggling with where to start in social media, Denise Wakeman lays out "a three-step formula to get you started creating a visible presence on the web, resulting in more opportunities for your business: leads, prospects, sales, media queries, speaking gigs and joint ventures."
Taking the First Steps in Social Marketing by iMedia Connection
Contending that "finding exactly which of your customers and prospects are on which social networks and who are the most socially connected, is the first step to figuring out if and how to integrate social media into your marketing mix," Gary Halliwell illustrates how to tie your CRM data to social media marketing efforts, and why this is crucial to creating value for your company through social media.
Five Rules for Responsible Social Marketing by Fast Company
Just as etiquette is what separates us from the beasts (well, that plus some DNA), so social media etiquette often separates the successful from the spammy, the engaging from the enraging, the outgoing from the obnoxious. David Lavenda supplies five rules here (such as "Respect people's privacy online, even if you don't have to") to help you stay on the positive side of those word pairs.
10 Ways to Cut Through the Social Media Noise and Be Heard by Social Media Examiner
Chris Garrett advises marketers to simplify their messages, use appropriate channels and appeal to ego among other recommendations to make their social media content more likely to get noticed.
The "No Duhs" of Social Media by Social Media Bits
Sharon Lane lays out the basic elements for social media success, such as knowing your audience, being authentic and being patient. Good post for newbies as well as those at the "a little knowledge is dangerous" phase.
90+ Essential Social Media Resources by Mashable
A collection of short summaries and links to a huge list of posts about Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile marketing and business development. It's sort of like this post, except that all of the links are to other Mashable articles. Hmm. Guess Webbiquity is a bit less about ego and more about sharing the love.
16 Lessons on Using Social Media for Business by Social Media Today
Adrian Swinscoe shares an excellent collection of social media do's and don'ts such as defining your goals to keep yourself on track, great content is crucial, and perhaps most importantly, "It takes time, persistence, consistency and commitment to generate results."
The 7 Secrets of Social Media Conversion [INFOGRAPHIC] by The Unbounce Blog
*****5 stars
Oli Gardner reveals key tactics for converting social media followers into buyers, from using a landing page with a clear call to action and offering "social proof" through badges and widgets to optimizing post-conversion opportunities.
4 Social Media Mining Metrics by iMedia Connection
Daniel Flamberg proposes four key metrics that can give marketers "actionable intelligence to identify competitive strengths or vulnerabilities, shape messages, identify informal opinion leaders and influencers or suggest the best choice of media channels" along with suggested tools to track those measures.
4 Ways to Measure Social Media and Its Impact on Your Brand by Social Media Examiner
On the same theme as Daniel's post above, Nichole Kelly her shares her four key social media metrics and shows how these fit within the sales conversion funnel.
25 Characteristics of Highly Effective Social Media Campaigns by Social Media Today
What sets successful social media marketing programs apart from the failures? Lots of things, and Sosthenes Boame helpfully lists 25 factors such as providing value, being "not spammy," building trust, consistency, and incorporating visual images.
12 Social Media Marketing Myths by Roxana Portalatin
Social media is cheap or free. It's a fad. It's for kids. This post demolishes these and other common social media myths.
Top 10 Social Media "Power Friending" Tips by OPEN Forum
Amber MacArthur condenses her book Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business into these 10 key tips to grow your social media presence and influence, such as acting authentically, telling stories and listening well.
Top 6 Social Media Mistakes And How to Fix Them by Social Media Examiner
Kristi Hines details half a dozen social media mistakes to avoid (or correct) including having the wrong connections, sending the wrong messages, and restricting your activities to "things that can be measured for return on investment." She also lists "using social media profiles for link building" as a mistake, though there are situations in which this makes sense; you may want to grab a profile on a lesser-known social media site for purposes of reputation management or brand protection. Even if there isn't enough relevant traffic on that site to make a large effort in network-building and interaction worthwhile, any links you include in your profile still have value.
50 Tips Granny Never Told You about Twitter & Social Media Etiquette by Social Media Today
Noting that "social media is no different than the social circles that existed in the 20?s, 50?s, 70?s and even 80 's. Yes, the same rules apply. Just executed on a different platform and at a higher volume," Pam Moore passes along 50 social media etiquette tips from Great Granny Walton. Among these nuggets of fold wisdom: "Be a friend to get a friend," "Plan yer work and work yer plan" and "It is just darn right rude to auto DM when Tweeters follow ya'!"
Social Media Tools
Social media tools that marketers shouldn't miss by iMedia Connection
Lori Dicker presents an outstanding list of free and fee-based tools for social media monitoring, measuring and messaging.
Managing Your Reputation Online: 5 Essential Tools by CIO Magazine
Kristin Burnham reviews five excellent tools for monitoring your online reputation, including Addict-o-matic, SocialMention, and the impressively comprehensive Yasni.
Where To Find Social Media Power Users by Search Engine Land
Want your story on the front page of a popular social media site? You need help from the power users in that community. Greg Finn introduces a dozen tools and pages to help identify the most influential users to connect with on various social sites including Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Twitter.
Top 10 Free Social Media Tracking Tools by ineedhits
Rene LeMerle provides mini-reviews of his favorite free monitoring tools, from the obvious (Google Alerts, Social Mention) to the less familiar (Boardreader, Samepoint).
Social Media Glossary by Social Media for the Socially Awkward
Social media jargon can be confusing for newbies, and even seasoned pros occasionally run across unfamiliar terms. To help out, Sean Horrigan has compiled this glossary of social media terms from aggregator, blogs and crowdsourcing to thumbstream, widget and wikis.
The Ultimate Glossary: 101 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained by HubSpot Blog
Speaking of social media glossaries, Kipp Bodnar provides a more extensive list of terms and definitions here.
11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization by TopRank Online Marketing Blog
The ever-modest Lee Odden reviews tools to help spot trends, research keywords and analyze social media activity to help improve "visibility on standard, social and real-time search."
8 Social Media Monitoring Tools by Onflow Interactive
A quick list of eight leading monitoring tools, from Alterian and Radian6 to UberVU and Sysomos.
Google: the killer social media monitoring platform by Social Media Today
Trevor Jonas explains how Google's various tools — from Google News and blog search to Google Reader and Analytics — combined create a powerful and free social media monitoring platform, and how these would enable Google to "absolutely blow away any of the existing monitoring services tomorrow if it wanted to."
10 Essential Social Media Tools for B2B Marketers by Mashable
Christina Warren reviews 10 tools on her list of social media favorites, including some surprises. Note: most are fee-based, but worth the cost for midsized to large enterprises active in social media marketing.
10 Free Social Media Tools Every PR Pro Should Master In 2010 by the COMMS corner
An alternative list from Adam Vincenzini of 10 key social media tools for those prefer free to fee.
7 Social Media Aggregation Tools To Simplify Your Streams by Social Media Today
Sarah Hartshorn details her favorite aggregation tools — like Hootsuite, Netvibes and Flock — for more efficiently monitoring and managing an organization's social media presence and activities.
The 39 Social Media Tools I'll Use Today by Convince & Convert
***** 5 stars
Jay Baer reviews his favorite tools, organized by category: Twitter-related, Facebook-related, Virality & Search, Photos, Tracking, Content Creation, Listening, Email and iPhone. This collection is comprehensive without (quite) being overwhelming.
Master List – A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions
***** 5 stars
Some day in the future, when social media is a mature marketing channel, there will likely be only a handful of high-quality, comprenhensive monitoring tools on the market for marketers to choose from. Today, however, social media monitoring tools are still in their wild west phase: there are a large number, of varying quality, each of which does something or a few things very well, but none of which are yet the "Holy Grail" of monitoring. Ken Burbary has done a masterful job of compiling this list, currently at 145 social media monitoring alternatives. The list is likely to grow before it consolidates.
195 Social Media Measurement Tools & Technologies by Sales Rescue Team
Yet another huge list of social media monitoring tools.
Social Media Employee Policy Examples from Over 100 Companies and Organizations by Social Media Today
In an organization of any size, you'll have multiple people using social media sites. In large organizations, this can be hundreds or thousands of employees. While management can't, and shouldn't seek to, tightly control all such interactions, it is imperative to have basic guidelines in place. That's where a social media policy comes in, and if you're not sure how to write one or what to include, check out this extensive set of examples.
57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources by Social Media Today
More corporate social media policy examples, this list from Dave Fleet.
11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates by Mashable
Social media monitoring and interaction activity can be tough to maintain. So Erica Swallow helpfully provides "a list of 11 free services for scheduling social media updates, either across multiple social platforms or just for Twitter. At the end of the list, you'll also find a quick note on 11 paid services that you may be interested in investigating, as well."
Social Media Marketing Strategy
Social Marketing Strategies by Brand Nexus
A fact- and statistic-rich SlideShare presentation covering social media reach, growth, demographics, consumer and b2b buyer behavior on social networks, spending levels by industry and strategies for success.
4 ways social media can save you time and money by iMedia Connection
Noting that social media be used for various business purposes (marketing, PR, market research, customer service), Larry Weintraub cuts to the chase with practical guidance, writing "ultimately you want to do one thing: sell more products or services. Let's take a look at how each of these four components of your social media strategy can help you sell more."
Razorfish: Social Influence Marketing Trends by Digital Buzz Blog
Another social media SlideShare presentation, this one focused around trends and rich with both useful guidance and examples from brands that have achieved social media success. It also includes a helpful section on metrics, introducing the SIM score.
Is Social Media Just Another Channel? The Potential of Social Media for B2B Markets by The Social CMO Blog
Alex Romanovich contends that social media is far more than just another marketing channel; it is phenomena that is "forcing corporations (brands) to look at how they engage with their clients, how they use information, and how they respond to events…the benefits and opportunities it presents are something we've never seen before. It is becoming the connecting thread that links all points of the Value Chain."
10 Awesome Social Media Presentations by thought leaders of the Industry by Daily Bloggr
Got some time? Here's a nice collection of 10 exceptional social media SlideShare and YouTube presentations, including "Web 3.0 – This time its personal," "Content Strategy for Social Media" and "How to make the best use of SEO and Social Media."
Social Media History Animation by Hai Le
Interesting video filled with trivia and statistics on the growth and current state of social media, such as that there were 90 trillion email messages sent last year (though roughly 80% were spam), Facebook serves six million pageviews per minute (is that possible?) and that YouTube serves one billion videos per day.
Social Media-Integration-Theory-Model by Israel Garcia's No-Blog
Israel Garcia offers a compact model of how social media has changed the historical pattern of corporate and marketing communications, and how to capitalize on that trends. He also makes a compelling case for doing so, pointing out research showing that "consumers are 67% more likely to buy from the brands they follow on Twitter, and 51% more likely to buy from a brand they follow on Facebook."
Why we need to kill "social media" by iMedia Connection
Rob Key argues that the term "social media" needs to be killed because (almost) all media is becoming social, and it isn't the tools or buzzwords that really matter in business so much as what social media can do in areas like risk management, media relations, product life cycle management, customer care, HR, market research, and innovation.
11 Killer Social Media Presentations Worth Watching by HubSpot Blog
Kipp Bodnar showcases 11 outstanding social media presentations from experts like Rohit Bhargava, Marta Kagan, Christina "CK" Kerley and Jay Baer.
9 Ways To Convince The CEO To Use Social Media and Enter The 21st Century by jeffbullas.com
Jeff Bullas offers several suggestions for selling social media to executives. #1, "scare them" is tempting but perhaps not the ideal approach, while #5 (use website grading as a baseline measurement) has real potential. #4 (buy them a book) works well if [italics] you have the kind of boss who actually reads books.
What Can Social Media Do to Improve Your Business by My Venture Pad
Writing that "the intention for gathering (social media) data should NEVER be for spamming but to help integrate your value proposition into what people are truly interested in," Eric Tsai lays out a framework for gathering data, analyzing it, and using it to make decisions and modify activities so that you can ultimately do "more of what works and less of what doesn't."
Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Techipedia
***** 5 stars
Tamar Weinberg has written one of the most thoughtful and creative blog posts of the year, explaing social media strategy through the alphabet from "always be listening" to "zealous" (and yes, she even includes entries for the letters q and x). Simply brilliant, a must read.
Social Media needs a (GASP!) budget by iMedia Connection
Uwe Hook helpfully makes the case that "Social Media is not free. Social Media is not cheap. Social Media requires a considerable of time and resources to make it work." A toe-in-the-water approach doesn't work with social media; it requires a commitment and a sustained investment, because while the payback can be considerable, it won't happen overnight.
B2B Social Media Strategy: 5 Steps to Gaining Executive Buy-in by B2B Bloggers
Michael Brenner provides an outstanding guide to getting executive buy-in for social media marketing, beginning with showing them the numbers behind the new reality and progressing through resources to help you answer the (inevitable) hard questions and developing a social media roadmap.
We Can't 'King Canute' the Social Media Tide by iMedia Connection
Gary Halliwell writes that "there are only three things standing in the way (of social media marketing success). The bad news is these are potentially tricky issues if not addressed correctly."
12 Reasons to Use Social Media to Grow Your Business by My Venture Pad
***** 5 stars
"Why exactly should we do this social media stuff?" Rather than fumbling to articulate a brilliant answer when you get that question from an executive or client, refer to this outstanding post from Pam Dyer, packed with ammunition like increasing brand recognition, improving SEO, taking your message directly to buyers, and making it clear that you "get it" (at this stage, as Pam notes, "If you don't have a presence, you appear as if you're not very savvy.").
Is a social media bubble ready to burst? by iMedia Connection
If the boss or client remains a skeptic even after following Pam's guidance above, you may need to pull out this post. "Aha!" your skeptical counterpart will say, "I knew it! Social media is just a fad." Actually, it's not that simply, and you may be surprised by the conclusions Michael Estrin draws in this insightful post.
Is Social Media a Big Joke? by The Confident Copywriter
First a bubble, then a joke? Is this more fodder for social media skeptics? Not quite, but Victoria Ipri offers a helpful reminder here to avoid jargon — both when selling social media and when using it. In her words, "simple, to the point, interesting, thought-provoking, but not especially flowery or verbose" messages are key in both situations.
9 Things to do Before Entering Social Media by Small Business Trends
***** 5 stars
In another outstanding post from Lisa Barone, learn what it's crucial to do before getting immersed in social media marketing. Just as a strong foundation is critical to the long-term stability of a home or building, so steps like crafting a social media policy or rulebook, assigning responsibilities, and making a commitment to responding are vital to social media success.
Three ways to act on your social media monitoring by Fresh Networks
Once you've decided on a set of metrics to monitor and tools to use (see the section above), now what? Matt Rhodes notes that "What you do with your social media monitoring is as important, if not more important, than getting the monitoring in place in the first place. Different brands will want to engage with the conversations they discover online in different ways," and suggests three actionable areas based on monitoring results.
Defining your social media goals by iMedia Connection
Ben Cathers provides guidance on the different approach and metrics to use depending on whether the primary focus of your social media efforts is for customer service or customer acquisition.
5 reasons why brands fail with social media by Engage Sciences
Whether you're already engaged in social media marketing and not seeing the results hoped for, or you're just getting started and want to avoid common pitfalls, this post will help you avoid strategic mistakes (such as treaing social media as a silo) and steer your efforts in the right direction.
Conversations that Aren't about Mel Gibson: the B2B Social Media Case Study, Part 1 by iMedia Connection
Eric Anderson eloquently makes the case for b2b use of social media marketing. "B2B sales tend to be complex and consultative, after all, and where do B2B buyers go for consultation? A surprising number start with simple Google searches, and those Google searches increasingly lead to, yep, industry blogs and forums."
Why Executives HATE Social Media by The Deming Hill Blog
***** 5 stars
A long but brilliant post on the executive view of social media, starting with, as the title indicates, some of the reasons C-level people hate social media including "don't feed me another fad" and "eagles don't flock." Midway through, however, the tone changes as the author writes "Maybe I don't HATE social media after all. Maybe I just hate the Quixotic context in which most social media conversations exist, featuring a perpetually moving target, combined with an obsessive, cult-like worship of the default worldview," then proceeds to detail five of the top benefits of social media from the executive perspective.
How To Create A Killer Social Media Strategy by The Business Insider War Room
Alyson Shontell quotes Nicole Melander, PhD, who teaches American University's MBA course on social media for business, saying "At this point companies don't have a choice (about participating in social media). They have to play in the arena somehow. The conversation is happening, it's just a matter of how much a company chooses to participate." Melander then presents a five-step guide to creating a business social media strategy.
25 "P"s of Social and New Media Marketing by Social Media Today
Expanding upon the traditional five "P's" of marketing (product, price, place, promotion and people), Ky Ekinci proposes 25 P's for social media marketing such as promote (carefully), play, protect, plan, and perhaps most importantly — persist.
Trends with Traction: Meaningful "social" measurement with Net Promoter Score by iMedia Connection
Adam Kleinberg extols the virtues of the Net Promoter score, introduced by Frederick Recihheld in his book The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth. He makes the case that this metric is one of the most vital, meaningful and valuable ways to measure the impact of social media marketing activities.


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