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Marketers Moronic Love Affair with the 18-49 Demo

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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How my family appears to marketers:




Doug’s VlogViews:

“My wife’s birthday makes us invisible to marketers.”

“How dumb are marketers to be focusing on the same 18 – 49 demo that was in vogue 25 years ago”

“The new demographic should be 25 – 57.”

Rick Wion on the Value of Thinking Inside the Box

Friday, July 24th, 2009

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Rick Wion, Vice President of Interactive Media at GolinHarris worked with McNeil Pharmaceuticals to develop their two ADHD Social Media sites: ADHDMoms and ADHDAllies. He talked about how to work within the regulatory environment at the BDI Social Communications Healthcare Conference.

“We setup a triage process for setting up comment approvals. When a comment goes in, a notification goes out via email to wait to be reviewed and then it goes through the AE [adverse even] reporting procedure. The AE team looks at it to see if it is an AE? If not then it goes to legal and regulatory for review and finally to the person who is in charge of AE’s page who flips a button to turn it live.”

Can Online Video Be Used for Lead Generation?

Monday, July 6th, 2009

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An online video sales training series we produced for Social Media Today’s site, The Customer Collective.

When I was producing the videos I thought there was some great info for my sales team that I wanted to share. You can check it out here, or learn more from the specific experts below.

“Jumpstart Your Sales in an Economic Slump”
Josh Gordon, Author of Selling 2.0 – Watch Video Here

“How To Take Best Advantage Of Social Media Tools”
Richard Nacht, CEO of Respond Media – Watch Video Here

“The Secret to Customer Loyalty”
Jill Konrath, Author Selling to Big Companies – Watch Video Here

Sophie Ann Terrisse, STC Associates

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Sophie Ann Terrisse, CEO of STC Associates, discusses Global Branding for clients.

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Some of Sophie’s VlogViews:

“I think a digital department is great but at the end of the day it’s really about the integration. And integration means digital is no longer your website, it’s no longer your email, it’s no longer your database. It’s how every single component of your reputation comes together.”

“What we do is we actually sit down with our clients, and we argue with them of what is a qualified prospect. How do you qualify a lead? How do you know you’re converting the right consumer? How do you know that they will take the right purchase or action that you want them to take? And what is the fastest way for you to make sure they take it?”

“PR has always struggled with, how do you measure performance? How credible will your efforts be when it comes to looking at that bottom line, and we wanted to find a way to be able to demonstrate it and that’s how we build our agency.”

“What we’re experiencing is a lot of people say, ‘I do have a limited budget, I need to be very disciplined about my spending, I need to be able to prove to my organization that I get a great return.’ And we find that PR, when it comes to building reputation credibility is one of the most powerful discipline tools.”

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