A great Corporate Stay in Vancouver

I’ve been to Vancouver half a dozen times– an easy 2 hour drive from Seattle or a short flight up from Portland, SF, or LA. My favorite experience was hiking Grouse Mountain with Brad Twohig, before he become a big-time venture capitalist and before I became 70 pounds in the obese category. This is Canada’s San Francisco, in my opinion– …

5 Tips to Make Facebook Your Lead Driving Machine

Facebook’s lead generation capabilities are powerful. With the right strategy, you can drive warm prospects to landing pages, registration forms, or checkouts for no more than $1. And yes… … it’s possible. Tip 1: Get your plumbing in place. What’s Plumbing? It’s the term we use for tracking. This includes analytics and tracking pixels aka “tags” that you can add …

How to save and edit Facebook Live videos

If you’re doing a lot of Facebook Live videos, perhaps for a conference, then you may have lamented the inability to edit it. There’s a quick way for you to download any video off of Facebook- here’s how: On a desktop device, right click and select “Show Video URL”: A box will pop up. Copy the URL that appears in …

Automotive Social Media Charlatans Exposed

I have been a part of the automotive aftermarket for over seven years now. Companies and brands of all shapes and sizes are realizing the relevance and power of social media. While their efforts are admirable, many are not capturing the characteristics of the aftermarket that make it unique from all others.  That being said, there is a stark contrast within …

How to get your audience to segment themselves

Today, a few members of the Content Factory team tuned into “4 Steps To Creating Personalized, Segmented Campaigns For Your Audience”, a Perpetual Traffic podcast featuring Ryan Levesque. Here’s our thoughts: Why is it that people won’t stop sending cold email blasts and spending countless ad dollars on broadly targeted, misfiring ads? We know ads are most effective when they …

12 Things I learned at SLC/SEM

Better to spend 5 minutes a day optimizing than one hour a week optimizing– frequent, lightweight touches are key with Facebook ads because of progressive boosting. Your Facebook paid metrics are undercounted– Facebook places the spillover effect of paid into organic, which can often be 10X bigger than the organic component.  This is separate from cross-device and direct/none issues in Google …

A Surprise from Social Media Dallas!

This morning I found a package from Laurie Shook of Social Media Dallas. You know the feeling when you get an unexpected gift from a old friend?  That’s how I felt. Laurie had taken the time to collect quotes from various Social Media Dallas members, print them out and stick them in a Scotty Vest.  This vest has many pockets, …