The phrase “It takes a village” is exemplified in the creation of a social media team. While not all organizations have the ability to assign tasks to an agency or to internal resources, there are a few roles that must be filled to have an effective team that can fulfill the goals and objectives...
Strategic objectives define any and all social media actions and results, especially for premium brands. They provide insight into who is talking about a brand, what they think about, and it is the strategy team’s job to provide them something to do—which depends on the end-goal of the social media initiative. Though it may...
Today, a Wall Street Journal article reported that LinkedIn is going to start providing targeted advertising for its site. Just like Facebook, the ads will be shown according to users’ profile information. Unlike Facebook, who bases their targeting on likes, dislikes and location, LinkedIn’s ads are based on information about job, history, schooling, etc....
As social media continues to grow in popularity among brands for its ability to bring information to the masses easily and efficiently, new outcomes continue to shape the advertising world. One case in point is the ability to receive large amounts of input from your most loyal fans on creative direction, strategy and overall...
It could be just around the corner. Like maybe next month or so. My subscription to Fortune Magazine could be delivered electronically. (I’d link to it, but it’s a subscription-only site!) And no, I’m not just talking about their website, but a bona fide magazine with ads and all, right on Steve Jobs’ latest...
I’m tired. Of life? No … I’m tired of marketers’ and researchers’ ploys to convince me and my clients that Social Media only applies to white female moms with HHI of $75K+. This may sound like a ridiculous thing to be fed up with, but hear me out. While the fact that here 300...
In case you’ve missed it, we at the WD tout our specialization in premium brands as our differentiator among other full-service advertising agencies. In our endeavor to be the experts on premium brands, we’ve developed some proprietary Premium Tools—one of which being our Premium Brand Index ™. Basically, we take up to ten brands...
While this is the story of what happened to my boss, he’s in Florida escaping the bitter Arctic cold front while at a sales conference for one of our esteemed premium brand clients—so, I don’t feel bad stealing it away for a blog entry. The other day, Mr. Bossy Boss told me a tale...
Extraordinary: going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary. — Merriam-Webster Last night, while watching my recording of Wednesday’s So You Think You Can Dance (yes, I’m one of those people), the show’s host introduced me to a group called “The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.” While this seems like a fun name, I was...
So, the biggest retail sales day of the year is coming fast and I can already hear the glee in my fellow bargain-lovers’ Facebook posts. This ritual spending has been a time-honored holiday tradition for many years, for I remember many Thanksgivings of time past where my mother and I would go through the...
