Weekly Social Marketing Links: August 11, 2009

Each week, the members of Powered’s marketing, business development and product teams pick a news article, blog post or research report that “speaks” to them. With that article, they need to come to our weekly staff meeting prepared to give a 120 second update on what the article was about and why they found it [...]

Audio from 1st Social Marketing Help Desk Webinar

A few weeks ago, we launched a new flavor of webinars called the Social Marketing Help Desk. You can read more of the details here in colleague, Doug Wick’s excellent post. The goal is to focus more on the questions vs. the content since we always get way more questions than we can answer during [...]

Weekly Social Marketing Links: July 7, 2009

Each week, the members of Powered’s marketing, business development and product teams pick a news article, blog post or research report that “speaks” to them. With that article, they need to come to our weekly staff meeting prepared to give a 120 second update on what the article was about and why they found it [...]

What You Can’t See: 78% of Your Business

Recently, I’ve been a little obsessed with ROI as it relates to social marketing, as I seek to put in more tangible terms what I feel intuitively about this new toolset’s value. To this end, Adam Cohen hit my Reader just right with a nice real-world post on measuring the marketing effectiveness of social media [...]

Give Before You Get [My Stump Speech]

For what it’s worth, the original title of this post was originally “Are You Smarter than a Drug Dealer?” It came out of a conversation I was having with our CEO about the fact that the business model we encourage our clients to adopt – namely, “give before you get” – in many ways is no different than that [...]

Engagement is a Means to an End – Measure the End, Not Just the Means.

Many marketers, PR reps, pundits and analysts are seeking proof that social media has a demonstrable impact on business. A Google search of “how to measure engagement” yields over 12M results with claims of “how to REALLY measure engagement,” and proposed formulas that are smart but insanely complex and still don’t answer the question regarding [...]