An example of how Fuego Mundo a South American infused restaraunt in Atlanta, GA used social media to decide it’s name, pricing and even menu. Very helpful information for small business owners who are considering leveraging social media marketing.
This post shares a presentation on how social media is being used by Fortune 500 brands. The study that is presented in this deck points out that Twitter is the favorite social media platform of Fortune 500 brands.
16% of U.S. consumers post 80% of the influential impressions—estimated at more than 500 billion a year—in online social networks
A humongous list of Twitter tools for business, personal and fun.
This is a nifty little social media trick I picked up recently. Social Media is a great place to monitor your brand and what people are saying about it. Here is the tip: Use search.twitter.com and type in the word ‘wish’ in front of your brand name or product. You’ll be surprised at what you [...]
Clint Eastwood is about as real as it gets. And a recent post by a tweep of mine Zachary Adam Cohen got me to thinking about cutting all the BS that social media is filled with. Z posts about how we wants to start burning his social media bridges. I get it too. Seth Godin [...]
This is a great example of how a local used car dealership used Social Media to connect and start a conversation with me via Twitter.
Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter… She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology – Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) http://www.emac.utdallas.edu faculty.
Even though 81% of companies say they plan to increase spending on social media over the next year, most of those companies are still struggling to figure out how to measure their return on investment, according to a new study from web marketing consultants E-consultancy. 61% of companies say their organizations are either poor or [...]
Twitter and Television seem to go hand-in-hand. I can’t count how many times I have been watching something and tweeting about at it the same time. I know a lot of shows have tried to make this work and FreeLanceSocialMedia wrote a solid post last year about Glee experimenting with this but I have not [...]
