Twitter Scheduling Apps: Head-to-head Click Test

Remember Marketing 101 (or maybe, like me, it was in Journalism 101) where the professor stressed the 5W’s? (Who, What, Where, When, Why) I do, and after nearly 40 years in marketing and public relations, it remains the most important lesson I ever learned. For most of us, figuring out four of the five is […]

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Plain English Legal Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media

First, the disclaimer. I’m not a lawyer. I figure that I’ve paid for a pretty good legal education, however, having worked with many of the best attorneys in this arena and written far more than my fair share of articles on this subject.One of the attorneys who falls into the category of “one of the […]

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Plain English Legal Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media

First, the disclaimer. I’m not a lawyer. I figure that I’ve paid for a pretty good legal education, however, having worked with many of the best attorneys in this arena and written far more than my fair share of articles on this subject.One of the attorneys who falls into the category of “one of the […]

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Why Social Media Best Practices Can Be Your Worst Enemy

You’ve seen the reports. You’ve seen the blog posts about best practices and timing your tweets. You’ve tried it.  So did I. If you’re like me, you may have seen some incremental lift in performance, the results were nowhere near what you could have achieved. At least that’s how it seems to me.  Don’t get […]

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5 Philosophical Rules for Effective Social Media

I had lunch today with Ryan Beckland, Co-founder of Motivation Science, one of the amazing start-up companies from the 2012 class at Tech Wildcatters, the award-winning technology innovation incubator in my hometown of Dallas, Texas. He wanted me to meet one of the candidates he is considering for the all-important marketing management slot in his […]

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Social Media Spending 2012: Forrester & a VC Weigh In

How does your 2012 social media spending compare to spending levels at similar companies?  Is your B2B social media strategy based on hard data, or guesswork?  It’s often hard to know how to budget effectively, but two new reports may help marketers with their B2B social media strategy for the remainder of 2012 and beyond. Forrester […]

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50 Words to Drop from Social Media?

We all know about using keywords to help Google find our websites and blogs, right? Well, it seems that the agency charged with protecting us from terrorists uses keywords, too. They use them to help them identify potential terrorist threats. It’s possible that using the words on the government’s “watch list” in your social media marketing campaigns […]

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5 Facebook Timeline Steps Every Brand Should Take Now

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s been about a month since Facebook implemented the new Timeline layout for business pages.  When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s new page design was first announced, the reaction was less than positive. Like it or not, there are some features in the new layout that can make a big difference in […]

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