Consumer Behavior, Featured Articles, Social Media Marketing, Technology news

Recent Facebook Emails To Small Businesses Are Research, Not A Scam

If you’re a Facebook page administrator for a small business, you may have received an email from Facebook that, at first glance, probably seems pretty spammy. Feel free to let down your guard—a post in Facebook’s help center confirms that the messages are part of a recent Call Tracking Study outreach to better understand how many phone calls local businesses […]

Blog, Featured Articles, marketing, social media

This Week in Review – February 11,2017

It’s been a little over a week since Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter. He was not kidding. My Facebook feed has been flooded with pictures of snow from friends from coast to coast. Here in Southern California, we are on the brink of another rainstorm, which has kept me inside all weekend with a […]

Featured Articles, Online Marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, Technology news

The Things You Need to Know This Week – September 5, 2014

I love holiday weekends and love the short weeks following them even more. But short week or not, there was a lot going on on the Interwebs. From AdWords changes that pretty cool, to Twitter forcing the shutdown of Twitpic, to Apple getting ready to introduce mobile payments–there is a bunch of good stuff to know. Here goes. Industry Google […]

Business Intelligence, Crisis Management, Featured Articles, Pop Culture and Current Events, social media

The Day A Tweet Sank The Market [And What It Means]

Twitter hackings and hoaxes are, sadly, nothing new. Yet yesterday’s hacking of the Associated Press’s Twitter account not only resulted in a fake tweet that claimed a White House terrorist attack had occurred; it also caused the Dow to plunge more than 150 points in mere minutes, which prompted widespread scrambling across the financial services industry. The Back Story – […]

Brand and Reputation Management, Consumer Behavior, Crisis Management, Featured Articles, Public Relations, Social Media Marketing

DKNY Brand in Fix Over Alleged HONY Photo Snatch

Facebook friends just served up the latest brand faux pas a la DKNY allegedly using photos belonging to HONY—with neither permission nor payment—as part of a window campaign. The story: street photographer Brandon Stanton, who runs the Humans of New York site, was approached by DKNY about purchasing some of his images for use in store windows all over the […]

Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Featured Articles, Marketing Tips, Marketing Tools, Tactics and Tips, Traditional Marketing

Social Media Mastery: It’s All About Knowing How To Build A Fire

This post on how to master social media community building and management was inspired by one of my favorite reality shows (stop judging, I know you’re judging). Survivor has endured for so many seasons because we all like to sit on our couch and be inspired, amazed and disappointed by the antics of our fellow human beings. Today I’d like to […]