by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
About ten days ago I wrote a post about corporate blogging. My premise was that the corporate blog was a bit of a different beast than the individual blog. The corporate blog requires some thought and planning. As a follow-up, I'd like to share this post with you. The premise of this post is that corporate blogging is on the decline. If that is so, it's too bad and likely the result of a lack of planning on the part of the corporations who have stopped blogging. I continue to maintain corporate bloging in important for corporations to connect with their customers.
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media |
Corporate blogs are a little tricky. Building and keeping up with a blog that is branded and is repeatedly visited by your clients, prospects and referral sources, requires some thought, some planning and some real commitment. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | General Business Advice, Social Media
Among many other things, Guy Kawasaki is the author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. “Enchantment,” as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update. And when done right, it's more powerful than traditional persuasion, influence, or marketing techniques. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media |
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Perception of your brand has always had some degree of word-of-mouth that shaped it. But the power of social media is changing everything. Now, there is an entire community of conversation about your brand, your product, or your service. Now is the time to decide what you are going to do about. Will you engage with this community or sit back and wait to see what happens? (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
Last week, Twitter released its own web analytics tool to help website owners who rely on Twitter for content distribution determine how much traffic they are getting from the site. The tool is intended to give website owners more data to help them determine if Twitter is driving traffic to their site. (more…)
