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Unquestionably, there is nothing more valuable to a brand today than the online presence it presents to prospects and customers on the Internet. It is the most essential marketing component that an organization has to have to be found and considered for a product or service.

I discovered this great INFOGRAPHIC from the Grasshopper group in my tweet stream this week and it brought to life some amazing insights on bloggers. The graphic was produced with data compiled from Technorati and Business Week.

  When I discovered a post titled 12 reasons to put Blogs at the center of your Content Marketing, authored by Heidi Cohen, at the CMI (Content Marketing Institute) blog, it was so timely, so spot on and had so many important benefits in it, I just had to post about it.

Content marketing is the new buzz that marketers and businesses are flocking to address the dramatic changes that have taken place in how to promote a product or service on the Internet. The idea is simple: Consistently create, publish and broadcast content that your prospects will find engaging and valuable (That’s easy, right?) With so [...]

I recently attended the 2011 Content Marketing Strategy Conference where a number of recognized speakers presented many points of view on the great shift that has taken place in marketing over the last few years. Throughout the 2-day presentations, there was unchallenged consensus that marketing has now entered the “post advertising age”. And as a [...]

Today, small talk and short conversation has shifted on the Internet to the social networks. And as Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder of BlogHer, says: “If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you aren’t going to find it on Facebook, or in 140 characters on Twitter”. So blogs remain the preferred domain for millions where longer form [...]

  After recently completing a purchase online, I received a request to participate in a survey from a large well know retailer brand. They were attempting to gain some insight on how many touch points I have with their brand through social media. And, more importantly, they were trying to determine why I had not [...]

I recently attended the #140 conference in San Francisco. At the event one of the many presenters made a rather poignant and relevant presentation titled “Why Small Business sucks at marketing”. While the title may be arresting, the sentiment might be right given today’s rapidly changing marketing environment. Let’s examine, for a moment, the impact [...]

Integrated marketing used to be fairly simple. But as Steve McKee recently pointed out in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, it’s now become somewhat of a mess. In the olden days, if your television and print ads were tied to your newspaper and direct mail campaign, you had an “integrated” communications campaign. Today it’s much, much more complicated. [...]

We seem to have moved to the next phase of social media. And, I might add, not a moment too soon. The first painful phase of exploration, experimentation and endless posts about someone’s lunch or dinner fare has become so very passé. The early adopters and category gurus who I respectfully “listened” to and attempted [...]

Here is another video in the ongoing series about the dramatic growth and influence of Social Media on the marketing landscape.

I recently attended a seminar titled: Building Brands with Social Media in SF. While the content was prepared for marketers and agencies, two themes in the day’s agenda kept popping up: Social media is not a one-time event or a marketing campaign. And second, no one should underestimate the investment required and how resource intensive [...]

Business Week recently published a rather skeptical report on the current state of social media. The take away from this report is that the rapidly evolving social media trend has become the wild west of marketing, rife with “experts” selling the equivalent of “snake oil” that delivers little business value. While it’s easy to dismiss [...]

With the proliferation of Facebook fans, twitter followers and social media communities for virtually everything, why exactly do you need email marketing? The medium seems a little over the hill at the moment. Sure you may have invested in building, maintaining, and cleansing a prospect and customer list. But the idea of sending them emails [...]

Has social media become important to companies? One way to answer this timely question is that 71% of companies now using social media plan to increase their investment by and average of 40%.