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Ramping Up The Emotional Side Of Marketing When It Can't Be Measured

There are things you inherently cannot track but that are still linked to the most powerful sales tool that ever existed: emotion. READ»

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Auto Tune: Hyundai Unites Skrillex And The Doors To Make New Music

With the Regeneration project, Hyundai continues its quest for emotional connection, uniting electronic music stars with musicians from five other genresREAD»

Where Does Your Business Sit On The Social Media Adoption Curve?

When executives ask me what social media is, I tell them that its similar to what W. Edward Deming said years ago: "Listen to your customers and employees and integrate that feedback into your company and you’ll be successful.” If you're not into social, you're not listening. Now imagine a company that takes input from thousands--authentic, genuine, direct feedback and integrates that into their company. Imagine a company that does that on a daily basis. Then imagine a company that doesn’t--ever. Imagine both companies in 3, 5, or 10 years.READ»

Curating The Instant Deal With Millions Of Mini CEOs And CMOs

American Express just took out the U.S. Postal Service as a middle man for the coupon delivery strategy it started doing by putting offers on the backs of billing statements every month. But in order to work, social daily deals need large-scale curation strategies.READ»

Your Brand Has Thousands of Facebook Fans--What Is the ROI?

Ultimately all consumer touch points are about one thing--driving sales.READ»

"If you just understood me, you'd love me" - The Mistake That Can Sabotage Your Investor Pitch

Backupify CEO Rob May discusses how the trials and tribulations of the heart are applicable to finding the right investors.READ»

Chinese Math, or the 1% Mistake That Cripples 100% of Entrepreneurs

Just because your business is perfectly targeted and accessible to potential customer base doesn't mean customers are easy to come by. Here's how the error of the "Chinese Math" mindset can sabotage an entrepreneur's best laid plans.READ»

Gary Vaynerchuck's Social Media Advice for Scaredy Cat Corporations

On Wednesday night Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk stopped by Fast Company headquarters for a panel discussion about online influence. In this clip he explains how he moved more bottles than uber-wine critic Robert Parker, how he ...READ»

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Sharing Vs. Selling: A Lesson From Gospel Music

This fall, I am working on wrapping up the manuscript for a book called Spreadable Media, a collaboration with MIT Convergence Culture Consortium. In short, businesses are looking at how content that circulates ultimately makes ...READ»

Connect Organic Website Promotion to ROI with SEO Analysis

Organic website promotion and seo search marketing, as opposed to pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns, focus on the traffic produced by positioning a company in main search lists returned for a keyword search. Although organic ...READ»

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The Time is Now for Brand Building – And Upper Funnel ROI

Organic’s Steve Kerho believes that as the economy progresses towards recovery, it is important for marketers to take a step back and utilize upper funnel tactics to build their brand. In this article, he discusses why now is the time to invest in brand-building activities as well as provide readers with smart ways to establish a successful upper funnel ROI strategy.READ»

Improving Bottom-Line Results: Applying The Living Organization® Model

We often hear from our clients, colleagues, and online audience: “Your model really resonates with my experience of business and it seems to help explain that which is often hard to explain, but does it produce real ...READ»

The Real Challenge In Our Financial System Today: Who is the End and Who is the Means?

When I was involved in the venture capital world helping to fund a number of technology startups, one thing that struck me as significant but never voiced by anyone was the disconnect of objectives between the two parties in the ...READ»

The Real Value of Business

As I talk with prospective members of Abound about their businesses, the business of sustainability and the challenges of being a leader in sustainable business, one of the recurring themes we encounter is that of value.This ...READ»

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When ROI Measurement And Actual Effectiveness Are Mutually Exclusive

In the 2009 Social Media Marketing and PR Benchmark Guide, MarketingSherpa explains a conundrum marketers are facing in a web 2.0 world: What do you do when the ability to measure your return on investment (ROI) is mutually exclusive to the effectiveness of a particular campaign? In other words, how do you sell a tactic up the chain of command that you know will work but can't provide definite numbers? Or conversely, how do you dissuade a course of action that has proven ineffective, but which your executives embrace because they understand the number of impressions or "hits" or lives interrupted by the campaign?READ»

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Holding on Price in a Down Economy

Learn how… maintaining your pricing integrity in a down economy is truly a winning strategy because, in the end, profit margins are higher, the ability to service a customer is better, and the confidence of the salesperson is greater. READ»

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Powering Modern Communications -- No Margin for Error

We live in the age of instant communications -- how can providers keep up with customer expectations?READ»

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ROI Of Social Media For Gen Y Audiences (And How To Convince Your Boss)

Generation Y - roughly those aged 13-29 - are among the strongest consumers and influencers. And while social media like Facebook, delicious, and Flickr have garnered media attention, many businesses are still wary of dipping a ...READ»

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Social Technographics: Forrester And The ROI Of Social Media

Last week, a lot of you read my guest post about the ROI (return on investment) of social media. There is no doubt that social media is changing the ways people interact online and hence, the way companies communicate with ...READ»

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Creative Briefs Should Be... Brief

A brief is digested, in all senses of the word -- a condensation of thought that indicates a clear strategic direction. Killer creative thinking comes from focus. You need a bull's eye to aim at, not a dartboard. In my ...READ»