by Ted Rubin | Aug 20, 2011 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Marketers used to be able to get away with intrusive advertising, placing online ads as pop-ups, highly distractive Flash animations, and a variety of other methods designed specifically to grab shoppers’ attention. However, consumers have changed and are no longer...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 18, 2011 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Successful social media marketing is all about relationships, with the highest ROR (Return on Relationship) coming from relationships with your Brand Advocates — those people who are so delighted by your product/service/brand that they can’t wait to tell their...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 16, 2011 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
The more social media use becomes a way of business and a way of life, the more we are seeing – and will continue to see – issues around data collection and user privacy. It of course makes sense for marketers to leverage this data, but in my opinion, we’re going...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 4, 2011 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Until recently, “social media fatigue” has been the most dangerous “condition” that we social media marketers have had to combat. Now, however, with the recent trend toward frequent deep discounts and coupon offers, we are risking an even more serious condition of...
by Ted Rubin | Aug 1, 2011 | Featured, Marketing, Social Media/Marketing
Moments of Truth are well-known concepts in the marketing world, from research (Zero Moment of Truth)… to shopping (First Moment of Truth) … to owning/using a product (Second Moment of Truth). Now, in a recent blog post, David Berkowitz introduces one more: the...
