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Entries from May 18th, 2010

Ford CEO Shares Executive Leadership Lesson in 140 Characters

May 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, AnneDGallaher

Photo courtesy of Flickr Ford APA One of the most valuable shifts in business communication is taking place on Twitter: a global audience can now learn from industry leaders and apply high-level advice in real time. At Amazon.com, there are 28,242 books written specifically on business strategy. Since it’s impossible to read and filter all [...]

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Hey, Small Business, DON’T build a website… build a Marketing Platform!

May 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · AlexRomanovich, All Posts

The more I talk to small and medium-size businesses, the more I hear – we need to build a better website! Don’t do it! In the age of Social Media and ‘doing more with less’ you don’t have to build a website anymore, nor do you have to improve it. You have to, and you [...]

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Thoughts on propagation planning

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, MollyFlatt

Recently, the team at 1000 Heads have been discovering and discussing some great content out there on propogation planning. Ivan Pollard from Naked Communications coined the term and Faris Yakob went on to, well, propagate it in a prize-winning essay for Campaign. Griffin Farley, of BBH New York, continues to develop the theory in his [...]

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My Thoughts: ‘Trust agents’ can help Memphis ‘brand’

May 16th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, AmyHowell

Memphis made history on the Internet this month, as one of the world’s most respected bloggers, best-selling author Chris Brogan, spoke for the first time in our river city. As he spoke, the audience live-tweeted, blogged and broadcast the event over the Internet, showcasing Memphis to hundreds of thousands of listeners across the globe. You [...]

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Why Facebook Should Quickly Improve Business Pages

May 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, Karima-CatherineGoundiam

Social media is radically changing the way we relate with our environment, at large. People, brands, companies all want to communicate with their ecosystems. Amongst social media platforms, Facebook is the heavyweight, whether for individuals, brands and companies. Facebook has been initially developed for individuals and business pages were first intoduced in 2008. Now that [...]

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The Magic Middle and the Rise of the Curator

May 12th, 2010 · 7 Comments · All Posts, RickWion

Last week, I was fortunate enough to get a walk-through of the Sponsored Tweets offering that is in beta with Twitter. It has obvious value for brands and is a sure money-maker for Twitter who is already making smart moves in monetizing their corner of the social web. Dick Costolo explained the system’s impressive method [...]

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Get More Sales- Today!

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, Ryan Sauers

In the world of sales… and we are ALL in sales… everyone wants more sales. So, there is a simple way to accomplish this goal. But before I give you the simple ways to do it– here are 7 things to consider… in regards to getting more sales. Getting more sales is more than having [...]

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Digital Storytelling: comics, heroes, symbols and myths

May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · All Posts, MollyFlatt

Last Friday I got to combine my lit-geek and WOM-geek selves at Digital Storytelling 2010, “an afternoon of inspirational speakers and events for journalists, academics, entrepreneurs, digital experts and students” created by not on the wires and the BBC College of Journalism. 1000heads were very proud to be Headline Sponsors of such an eclectic and [...]

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Are You Measuring What’s Important?

May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · All Posts, ScottMonty

We often talk about social media ROI being measured differently. These are different behaviors and we should be applying new and different measurement standards, right? One of my favorite demonstrations of this is K.D. Paine’s legendary acronymn HITS = How Idiots Track Success. A recent eMarketer article asked Is the Click Still King? To the [...]

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Beyond Connections, to Building Relationships

May 9th, 2010 · 4 Comments · All Posts, EricFletcher

It is news to no one that when it comes to marketing, relationships trump everything. A challenge in the pursuit of this asset is to recognize the difference between connections and relationships. (Or, for that matter, the difference between followers or fans and relationships.) At the risk of oversimplifying, establishing connections is relatively easy. Building [...]

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