Ben & Jerry’s Drops Email Marketing In Favor of Social Media

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream of Vermont announced in an email to their subscribers last week that they will be discontinuing their regular email marketing campaigns, in favor of social media. This was a major surprise - Usually, I think of social media and email marketing as having a close relationship and that they are … Continue reading Ben & Jerry’s Drops Email Marketing In Favor of Social Media

Five Reasons Professional Services Firms are Well-Suited to Social Media

Professional services firms are pioneers in content marketing.   Consulting firms, law firms, accounting firms, engineering firms and architects:  these are the professions that invented idea-based marketing.  Since the early 1960s, professional firms have invested heavily in bylined articles, publishing, seminars, webinars, podcasts and conferences.  But they’ve been slow to embrace social media. According to a … Continue reading Five Reasons Professional Services Firms are Well-Suited to Social Media

Social Media is the Servant of Strategy Not the Master

Embracing social media should not mean organizational change, it should change the organization. I now take the organization’s current strategic plan, CEO’s vision, mission statement and make those the metrics of a social media strategy. If a non-profit has a strategic objective to “further engage current donors”, with 600 million people on Facebook it is … Continue reading Social Media is the Servant of Strategy Not the Master

Make the switch to Posterous [+ WordPress]

A couple of weeks ago, the brilliant guys at Posterous started an even more brilliant marketing campaign to tout the efficacy of their Posterous platform against other blogging tools. They culminated their campaign with a post on the 'Top 5 reasons to switch from WordPress to Posterous' by saying... "We’d be crazy to declare war … Continue reading Make the switch to Posterous [+ WordPress]