Mitch Baranowski wrote a fantastic piece on Fast Company’s CoExist site about the importance of ensuring brand relevance. Listen up! Branding is not a tactical free-for-all anymore! Companies are paying much more attention to their brand culture and their brand perception these days because there are many more instantaneous customer touch-points than there have ever […]
When you look at successful social media campaigns, they all seem to have one thing in common – they are easy to participate in. It’s something we touched on in last week’s post about the Kony 2012 campaign. The fact that all that was required of people was to click a few buttons in […]
Setting up your business on Twitter or Facebook is easy. However, you can’t just hop on and start posting without thinking about a few things first. Perhaps the most important part of your social media presence is creating the voice for your brand. It’s important that your brand’s voice on social media matches up with […]
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding Pinterest lately, probably because of the huge growth it has seen in the past few months. It seems to have replaced the buzz around Google+ from last year. These sites are different in a few ways, but what is interesting is the gender breakdown of the users […]
Mashable has some interesting stats on Twitter activity during Sunday night’s Super Bowl game. You would think that with so many people tuned in to watch a football game, most of the chatter would have been about football, right? Oddly enough, the answer is no. What were people tweeting about during the game? The commercials. […]
Happy New Year, everyone! We’re back from vacation and are already hard at work on a bunch of really cool projects. Before we get too far into 2012, we thought it would be good to reflect on some of the things we learned and discussed in 2011. Here is a breakdown of our top 5 […]
Social networking has exploded in popularity in the past few years, so it makes sense that marketers would want to follow consumers to this space. I’ve seen some great examples of campaigns that have been very successful with reaching fairly large audiences through social media channels, but I wonder how responsive people are to most […]
If you run a small- to medium-sized business (SMB), you need to keep your brand top-of-mind, specifically during strategic planning phases. I participated in a recent poll a friend conducted for his SMB network. The question, “Is your website at the center of your online strategy?” was the basis of the poll. Curious about his […]
If the riots in 1994 following the Canucks defeat to the New York Rangers left a blemish on Vancouver, then the riots of 2011 have tarnished the franchise for generations to come. I’ve been a Canucks fan since 1978 when Stan Smyl was drafted by Vancouver. I remember the excitement of the 1982 cup run. […]
