For three years, many of us skeptics have wondered aloud about the viability of Twitter. Will they sell sponsorships? Can they corporate tools help merit their billion dollar plus valuation? Would power users be wiling to pay for their services? Apparently, the answer is no (or at least not at the core). Instead, Twitter is taking [...]
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Normally, it is realistic to think that a company’s website can easily answer the question, “who are we.” That’s because in most cases, companies start off as something and grow organically. Occasionally, however, companies acquire (or are acquired by) other companies. And while this adds accretive products and services to their general offerings, it doesn’t [...]
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One of the things I love about my job is that I get a chance to meet and interview tons of interesting people. Some are execs at big companies? Others are authors of thought provoking books. And some are just plain smart individuals who are teaching companies how to embrace the power of social networking [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Cross-posted from MarketingProfs (original publish date May 2009) Have you ever heard the term “eat your own dog food?” It’s a funny sounding concept that essentially means that one is “walking the talk” or leading by example. For instance, a lot of well-known companies have talked about being “customer-focused” but how many really are? Unfortunately [...]
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Recently I’ve been thinking more about (and working on) how Powered, as a social marketing provider that focuses on building online communities for brands, can expand our partnerships with those brands’ marketing agencies. In an earlier post, I broke down the question of whether or not agencies can evolve into social. In that post I [...]
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Yes, this is going to be a good one. Don’t miss the opportunity to join Forrester Principal Analyst, Lisa Bradner, Communispace CMO, Debi Kleiman and Aaron Strout, CMO, Powered (yup, that’s me) this Wednesday, June 24 at 2 PM CT as we talk about the good, bad and the ugly of community building. Our presentation [...]
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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 [...]
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