Google+: A Content Marketer's Dream Come True?

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When Google leaked its Google+ social network in late June, I was pretty skeptical. After playing with it the first few days I yawned in public. I’ve since admitted the early errors of my thinking and retracted that yawn.

Like almost everyone using “G+,” I liked the “circles” concept of organizing contacts by theme–co-workers, friends (you [...]

A Few Great Predictions

I’d like to tip my hat to my colleague, Loren McDonald. His recent piece on the “8 Marketing Changes You Can’t Ignore” is very compelling.

His first two predictions in particular—“customer service is the new marketing” and “customers become your marketing department”—are spot on:

Customer service is the new marketing:
The changes in marketing remind me of [...]

Social Meets Email Meets Social

Email is old. Social is new. New things are always better than old things. Social will kill email. Right?

Well don’t tell this to a little startup I ran across: TweetyMail. These guys have made an entire company focused on giving you access to Twitter using your email inbox. Send a message to tweet. Get an [...]

Top Facebook Fan Pages

Thanks to a recent article in TechCrunch, I found this cool site that lists the top Facebook fan pages.

Other than the obviously interesting stats on which brands are getting traction in the social marketing world, the other notable element of this page is the sheer volume of fans.  For the top brands, the Facebook fan [...]

Cool New Company: Inbox2

I just caught wind of this company. Its value proposition is to be a single portal into all your email accounts as well as accounts like Twitter, Facebook, etc. With so many solutions out there that effectively fragment the communication experience for consumers and business people, it’s great to see a company that’s working to bring [...]

Social Networks Will Kill Email? I Think Not

Our head of products shared this little posting from Facebook’s developer site. In short, it seems that a growing number of Facebook users prefer to be contacted by good ‘ole email rather than Facebook’s proprietary email —Facebook’s application developers have been pressing to get easier access to their email addresses.

Apparently, even the walled gardens of [...]

How Advertising Really Works

If you were ever interested in how content-based advertising has evolved and, even more so, where it might be going, this TechCrunch article does a great job of describing it. It focuses on the rise and future of online video advertising, but its insights can easily apply to the evolution of any kind of advertising. [...]

UK Social Media statistics

For those email marketers using Silverpop’s Share to Social feature, which allows you to share your emails into recipient’s social networks; it can sometimes be difficult to know which networks to use – after all you don’t want to list all of them when they may not be big enough or from the right demographic. [...]