Analytics is killing social media

Analytics, you can’t live with it, you can’t live without it I have a love/hate relationship with analytics.  It’s always been the best and worst part of digital marketing.  The best in that you can measure results to a far greater extent than with non-digital campaigns.  You can tweak and adjust on the fly and…

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Presentation: 8 Digital Trends That Will Change Everything

Yesterday I gave a presentation along with Raghu Kakarala in Atlanta to about 70 digital marketers. The title of our presentation was, “8 Digital Trends That Will Change Everything“. We worked on this presentation for a few months, hemming and hawing on what those trends were, but we ultimately felt good about where we landed.…

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The 7 Stages of Social Denial

I love introducing new social technology to people and watching them go through the 5 stages of social denial.  They usually look something like this: Stage 1: The “Aw Hell No” Stage (today this would be things like Blippy — blog post coming about this btw) “That’s so lame, no one will use it” or …

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