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WWHBD?

What would the honey badger do? He wouldn’t give a @%&*, right? So I asked myself how much I should care about memes as a business professional who wants to increase enrollment in the Executive Education programs at Daniels College of Business. A “meme” is just a fancy word for all those videos and catch phrases and [...]

Opinions….Companies lack in Email Marketing

Companies, especially marketers, need to remember what the data is showing, in their results. This article linked below, reveals where marketers associated with the 600 companies surveyed, have failed in using technology as a benchmark to get closer to their customers. When data reveals -for example only “38% remove inactive contacts” and only “36% try [...]

Chevy Introducing a Mobile App to Engage Viewers During the Super Bowl

Chevy is introducing a new interactive app for viewers of the Super Bowl that will give away free prizes, including free Chevy cars.

KLM Airlines Uses Social Media to Surprise Customers

This last summer, KLM marketers decided to see how they could use social media to unearth tidbits of information about their passengers so that they could pleasantly surprise them.

Study: Email deliverability rates stagnate at 81%

Only 81% of emails sent during the first half of 2011 reached consumers’ inboxes, according to a study released by email deliverability services firm Return Path on Sept. 20. The “Global Email Deliverability Benchmark Report, 1H 2011” found that 7% of emails worldwide were classified as spam and 12% were missing. Tom Sather, director of [...]

Testing: Why Failure Must Be an Option

In today’s world, we are constantly being bombarded with e-mail.  Some of it is important, relevant, and saved for future use.  However, the majority of e-mail is deleted (junk e-mail came out of necessity).  How many times have you clicked opt-out or unsubscribe only to get more e-mails from the same company weeks down the [...]

QR Code vs. SnapTag

It is hard to say what the future has in store in the field of mobile marketing, but a new comer in the game is shaking things up and going head to head with the current king of mobile marketing, QR Codes. If you aren’t familiar with QR codes they are a two-dimensional code used [...]

Reebok Released an App to Launch Buzz and Boost SEO

Reebok Released an App to Launch Buzz and Boost SEO Recently, Reebok released an App called the Promise Keeper. This app works on both Android and Apple systems. Users log in the app with Facebook accounts and share their training schedules on FB.  The app updates users’ training plan and whether they put it into [...]

Google Wants Search to Be More Social…

Google Inc. is adding a new twist to their search engines. Attempting to rival Facebook and other social media sites, Google is now forced to re-think strategy in a rapid-changing web industry that has been shaken up by more youthful rivals such as Facebook and Twitter. Those companies have gotten people to publicly and privately [...]

Social Media and SEO: 5 Steps to Success

Why is this important? -more and more marketers are charged with improving performance with fewer resources -many companies are switching budgets from traditional marketing to digital tactics like SEO and social media – increase social network discovery via the ability to attract links for improved SEO Benefits to SEO: Useful social content that cannot be [...]