Archive for August, 2008

Sally Falkow, Internet Marketer

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

We interviewed thought-leader Sally Falkow, President of Expansion+ from a secret location on the keys to successful internet marketing strategies.

Some of Sally’s VlogViews:

“It’s [the internet] that has turned the flow of communication on its head.  Where as before companies were creating messages, finding ways to get them out, pushing, pushing, pushing all the messages out.  Now it’s the people that are actually looking for information and we have to be on the other side of that. It has become pull rather than push.” 

“There is just so much that companies can do with video, huge amounts they can do -“ they can tell the story.  We keep hearing ‘tell them, don’t sell them” my God, have PR people got an opportunity to tell the story.”

“Well, you know we like to say in the old days – like six months ago, so who knows in the new days like six months from now… things that we were doing for clients a year ago, we are doing completely different things now, we are doing things that didn’t exist, Twitter wasn’t there.”

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Joe Marchese, SocialVibe

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Joe Marchese, co-founder and President of SocialVibe, discusses the changing role of ad agencies in the social media environment and how his company responds to and facilitates those changes.

Some of Joe’s VlogViews:

“Social media isn’t a conversation between a person and a typical publisher, it’s a conversation between a person and another person, who also has a parallel life as a publisher. There is no question that as we move closer to this model that all media becomes earned media.”

“What we are saying is that one hundred percent of the publisher’s share should go to the people, and then that gets divided up how they want. The ad network side is what really deals with the brands and helping them get into social media.”

“When you start asking people to share your brand, all of a sudden your beginning to realize your source of media that is spreading your message is also your consumer, which means you can ask them questions…Look at the results of what you are doing, advertising becomes inherently measurable.”

Check out Joe’s blog for Online Spin, published by Mediapost, a leading online news and social networking resource.

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