Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’
Should You Say YES or NO to Social Media?
Last week, I was seated next to a guy at a business breakfast who told me he was embarking on a second career and becoming a writer. The speaker at the event mentioned social media and the guy immediately stated, “I hate social media. I know social media would be good to help me sell books but I’m not sure if I can bring myself to do it. What do you advise?”
The first thing I thought of was to tell him
Posted in: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking on 11/29/2011
Is Social Media a Marathon or a Sprint? – by Christopher Ryan
I have seen a repeated pattern when it comes to using social media in B2B marketing. A company executive or marketing manager drinks the social media Kool-Aid and decides to make it a big part of their pull marketing strategy. The next thing you know, he or she is posting, tweeting, responding, bookmarking and otherwise fully engaged in every social networking outlet they can find. This goes on for a few weeks or months until the person quits when they
Posted in: Pull Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking on 01/06/2011
Use Social Media and Pull Marketing to Generate Business
Social media and pull marketing have been around for some time but there is still a great deal of skepticism about their effectiveness. It’s not uncommon to hear someone say, “Social media may be the hot new thing, but it hasn’t generated any business for us.”
When I founded Fusion Marketing Partners, my objective was to generate our clients strictly through pull marketing methods. We are vocal proponents for the power of pull marketing so we had best practice what we
Posted in: Pull Marketing, Social Media on 10/08/2010
Creating Different Social Networking Personas by John Leavy
No one would seriously think of visiting the President of the United States in the Oval office in jeans and their favorite rock concert T-shirt. The Office of the President itself deserves respect.
The different social networking communities on the Web have their own conventions as well. Think of socializing in LinkedIn, a business community for professionals. Some professionals are known to you while others are not. Think of meeting the boss for dinner at a fine restaurant downtown … formal
Posted in: B2B Marketing, Pull Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing on 08/10/2010
Getting Noticed – in a Good Way – by John Leavy
Let’s talk about being noticed in the social media community; being noticed without being obnoxious or looking desperate that is. Getting noticed in a good way is beneficial for business. Organizations work hard to position themselves as the experts in a certain field, the authorities, the go-to-guys, the ones-in-the-know.
Here are some quick ways to begin to establish credibility in the social media stratosphere.
Identify the influencers in your business sector and comment on their blog posts. Posts such as “Great post!”
