Amanda Richman, president of digital at MediaVest, cites the rise of the 'empowered consumer' as one of the most significant changes in digital marketing today.
Amanda has made some very interesting points.Marketers need to work harder to make consumer want their product.For a marketer the term consumer is not just some one consuming your product but also a potential client consuming your content.Being an empowered consumer of today the masses are not easily swayed by flashy celebrity endorsement they want hard statistics or neutral reviews by people "actually" using the goods
Elizabeth Pizzinato, SVP of marketing and communications at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, calls content marketing "the new black" and explains how her brand engages its target audience.
Jeff Mirman, vice president of marketing at Turner Sports, discusses how his company turns fans and followers into engaged brand advocates through social media.
Alison Lewis, senior vice president of marketing at Coca-Cola, discusses Coca-Cola's marketing strategy and the company's take on social media marketing.
Linda Descano, President and CEO of Women & Co., and managing director of partnerships and branded content of North America marketing at Citi, explains her firm's marketing opportunities and challenges.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
A recent release of the popular TweetDeck app for Twitter power-users gives new life to software that had previously taken a wrong turn. Here's a quick walk-through of the new TweetDeck, to show you why it should be at the top of your Twitter toolkit.
Marissa Mayer at Yahoo has come out with her strategy on turning the company around: culture, company, calibration, and compensation. But Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud opportunity, not a management theory lesson.
Twitter's changes are clearly aimed at being more Facebook-like, and this is because both companies are vying to serve the mobile social network market. But can that market work for anybody, given how difficult it is to push ads to social-update readers?
Elizabeth Pizzinato, SVP of marketing and communications at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, calls content marketing "the new black" and explains how her brand engages its target audience.
Jeff Mirman, vice president of marketing at Turner Sports, discusses how his company turns fans and followers into engaged brand advocates through social media.
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