Archive for the ‘Social Media Optimization’ Category

This video is well worth the watch. If you are a digital strategist, you will be cheering. If you are new to social media in your marketing mix, it may change your life. Newell Rubbermaid: Social Media from a Multi-Brand Perspective, by Bert...

x-posted from RTCRM Spark Blog I'm not sure I know anyone who works in advertising who doesn't love the show Mad Men. Their season 3 promotion allows you to create your Mad Men avatar! I had to jump right on this. That's me in the bright blue...

(x-posted from RTCRM Blog) Last week I had the privelege of speaking at a 4As (American Association of Advertising Agencies) meeting of Kansas City advertising agencies executives. They were in NYC for a day of marketing & advertising fun for the...

An article in Online Media Daily illustrates how privacy illiterate most people are.  Most people are so privacy illiterate they don't even know that they should care.   In the article, author Nina Lentini discusses Facebook's Social Ads and...

Originally Posted by Carly & Art on Flickr A lot of my clients at RTCRM are pharma companies, so I read quite a few Pharma blogs. They are constantly complaining about the lack of Web 2.0 and social Web elements in Pharma marketing. For example...

(x-posted from RTCRM Blog) Photo Credit: Andy Piper Used via Creative Commons Attribution Copyright Depending on your point of view blogging is either the greatest thing to happen to marketing in the history of modern marketing, or the most...

Everyone is talking about about social media and word-of-mouth marketing these days and acting like it’s a new phenomenon. When, in reality, it’s the same thing that’s been happening for centuries (if not longer) just now we use fancy technology to...

It seems like one of the basic tools of search engine optimization (SEO) is falling through the cracks, when it's become more important than ever. I'm really surprised how many sites, are failing to deploy unique titles and descriptions on every page of...

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Everything is Connected

Everything is connected if you can see what's not being said, what's missing, and read between the lines. Understanding those connections not only makes us people, but better marketers. In the end, it's all about understanding how what you are doing is relevant to someone else.

My job is to understand those connections and be able to help you to not only be able to see them, but also use tthose connections to improve the world around you. Sometimes it's just why someone would care about your product. Sometimes its understanding how services like Twitter are help return a lost sense of community.

Either way, it's about making connections.

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Through the Years

This site has been through many iterations since I first launched it in the Summer of 2000. Every iteration since 2001 is actually captured in the Internet Archive.

  • Take a little tour down memory lane