And likewise, here’s a doozy from the folks at Marketing Profs today. 17 required fields! Why have a razor with three blades when you can have five, PLUS an aloe strip? The key to social lead gen in B2B is many lightweight touches over time– to nurture folks, instead of trying to go from first date to …
Why you shouldn’t buy our software
First off, it’s just awful. But the other reason is that you might not have enough data to have anything meaningful to look at. We’re known for doing beautiful real-time visualizations (that’s a live link to 1% of everything happening on twitter. But for most companies, if we monitor your mentions real-time, you’ll be waiting a long time between tweets. …
Sponsoring, boosting, and promoting Facebook posts
So I promoted this post to see the impact. I got twice as many views. Of course, as a user (not a page’s promoted post or the boost post), I don’t know how many impressions I got. But anecdotally, I got 20-30% more interactions than I’d get through organic alone. Thus, the paid boost likely reached folks who were slightly less likely to …
Creative Ways We Use Custom Audiences at Content Factory
Custom audiences are one of the many Facebook marketing tools we use to do thoughtful analysis that makes a real impact. The purpose of a custom audience is to target your entire list or specific segments of your list exclusively but the application of custom audiences goes far beyond that. To create a custom audience, prepare your list (or segment) …
When newsfeed posts go wrong
Chevron runs this post in the newsfeed– boasting of their 2.7 million barrels production per day, accompanied by picture of barrels as far as the eye can see. “Pretty awesome when you think about it,” they say. I counted the first 20 comments and every single one was negative. Jon Loomer, Facebook advertising expert, has written …
Facebook raised our limit to $75k a day!
For one of our accounts. But it doesn’t mean that we’re going to spend that much more now. Sure would be a lot of airline miles or points on your favorite credit card, right? What card would you put it on and what you would like to earn?
Facebook in Brazil– how did our predictions from a few years ago turn out?
The social sphere evolves quickly, especially in the past few years. Fabio Ricotta of mestreSEO interviewed us back in 2010, and some predictions surfaced about where Facebook was heading: Fabio: Dennis, can you tell our community who you are and some background information about you? Dennis: Fabio, pleasure to join you. I am formerly of Yahoo and now the co-founder …
4 Conversion Conference Chicago Facebook Marketing Tips Worth Their Weight in Gold
One area I wasn’t expecting to gain much knowledge in from attending Conversion Conference Chicago is Facebook marketing. I’m not talking about more fans or people liking your cat pictures; I’m talking about measurable ROI. These tips will supercharge your Facebook marketing: 1.) Utilize lookalike audiences to find new prospects Match your existing customer base (email list) to Facebook and …
Emoticon 2.0 – Facebook Messaging stickers roll out for desktop users
Some of you may have noticed something new in the smiley box in Facebook chat: These stickers were first introduced on mobile back in April, but Facebook is testing on desktops with random users. Clicking on the shopping cart icon let’s you browse for more to suit your tastes: If this is not a sign of the visual web, …
13 shocking things the NSA discovered from mining social data
With all of the talk of NSA and Prism lately, one has to wonder what exactly they discovered when mining your social data. Don’t ask us how we got this, but here’s what leaked: 1. The security of the nation’s tacos are at stake… 2. As is our precious mashed potato supply… 3. That we’re all bad drivers… 4. And …
Social Media Analytics is not a software or technical problem
In the world of big data, vendors think the problem is about storage and processing. So they write articles like this about the need for If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Big data means big waste…. unless you have mapped the business goal back to the data elements needed to make a decision. If you don’t know what problem …
Facebook can predict if you’re gay and like ice cream
Networked Insights saw declining mentions of iPhones by teens as a signal for Apple’s depressed earnings forecast What women most want is ice cream, while men want cars says social analytics firm NetBase. Facebook can predict if you’re gay or exactly where you’ll be in one year from now within 50 meters with high accuracy (Hey, do you like Spongebob and work out on Wednesday mornings …