This article was originally published in Newsline, a publication of the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. Investor relations people are not social. Oh, don’t get me wrong; I know they are in real life. I’ve been to numerous CIRI conferences and have witnessed this firsthand. Great banquets, golf tournaments, galas and hospitality suites – IR [...]
Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. YouTube. Social media. These buzz words are getting a lot of attention. From teenagers and grandparents posting profile pics on Facebook, to celebrities sharing their “genuine” love for cheeseburgers and purses on Twitter and HR professionals recruiting potential employees on LinkedIn, there’s no segment of society that hasn’t been impacted by social [...]
20 per cent of the pea pods contain 80 per cent of the peas CALGARY, AB, Jan. 9, 2012/ Troy Media - The Pareto principle, aka the 80-20 rule, seems to magically apply to many areas of life, including social media marketing. Anyone who has ever managed a sales team is familiar with the axiom 80 [...]
You need to know who frequents each social network to make it work for you CALGARY, AB, Dec. 20, 2011/ Troy Media - Talk to some executives and they use the phrase “social media” as if it is a homogenous monolith. Like every platform is the same, and they are all equally worthy of a corporation’s [...]
CALGARY, AB, Nov. 28, 2011/ Troy Media – Everyone knows social media is free. To sign up, that is. But, as the saying goes, there is no free lunch. If you expect to get something from social media in exchange for little or nothing, you should expect to fail. Facebook is littered with such failures. [...]
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 28, 2011/Troy Media – I’ve been reading a few articles from social media naysayers of late. Funny thing is, I often start such a read agreeing with many of their points, but invariably they seem to succumb to the temptations of weak, emotional argument. In other words, they go from smart [...]
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 21, 2011/ Troy Media – Last night I downloaded a high-def movie to my iPad on the Wi-Fi here at the “cabin” we’ve rented, and then played it on the widescreen TV in full surround sound. This is what passes for roughing it these days, a far cry from my childhood experiences [...]
The shiny new thing in social media this month is Google+ (aka Google Plus or G+). It launched in beta/invite only mode at the end of June, since attracting an estimated 18 million users. Will it kill Facebook? Twitter? It’s too early to tell and that may not even be Google’s end game, as Rick [...]
With over 600 million users, it’s no wonder marketers want to run promotions on Facebook. Giveaways, photo contests, coupons, and sweepstakes – everyone is excited to generate buzz on Facebook through classic promotional means. Trouble is, Facebook pretty much forbids it. Use the apps for your contest Fret not, though, dear marketeers, there is a [...]
A few weeks ago I had the tremendous pleasure of attending a gathering of chief marketing executives put on in Banff by the Conference Board of Canada. The topic was New Age Marketing and we enjoyed excellent presentations by top-notch digital marketing folks from LinkedIn.com, TorStar Publishing and Deloitte. A special highlight for the small [...]
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