Persuasive Picks for the week of 03/01/10

Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 1You’ve implemented a perfectly planned social media strategy and now that you’re humming along you’ve got an equally well planned way to measure your success right? That’s what I thought. There are many ways to measure, and Nathan Linnell walks readers through using web analytics as one option [...]

It’s a Two-Way Street – 12 Questions to Ask A Potential PR or Social Marketing Client

I had a great meeting today with a business magazine publisher. A few things that he said to me during the meeting fell in line with this blog post that I had been planning for a while. Some of his comments included:
“You’re a great listener.”
“You don’t have that usual PR persona.”
“You are think and care [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 02/22/10

Any Way It’s Sliced, Appeal of Social Media Grows The integration of social media into marketing strategies continues to march into the mainstream, and this NY Times post provides many examples of big brands that are embracing social media as part of their current campaigns.
9 things I’ll never do again with [...]

An Easy Social Media Lesson From The Peanuts: Talk With Me, Not At Me

One of the most famous cartoon dynamics could pretty much sum up the difference between successful social marketing and unsuccessful social marketing: The Peanuts. I’m sure you recall that when the grown ups are talking at the children, all the children hear are muffled, annoying sounds. But when the children are talking with each other, [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 02/08/10

Why Google Buzz is brilliant and deadly to social media 1.0As fanfare over the iPad announcement dies off, Google amped up the online world with a new feature announcement. In this post, Christopher S. Penn shares his views of the positive and negative implications of the all new Google Buzz feature in GMail.
The Value [...]

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