Tag Archives: Web

Don’t start your social media effort with a Facebook page

When ini­tially dis­cussing social media with clients, often the first thing brought up is using Twit­ter or Face­book as an out­go­ing tool to push their adver­tis­ing mes­sages. If you’re think­ing about social media from a tra­di­tional mar­ket­ing per­spec­tive, there’s noth­ing wrong with this con­cept. It’s obvi­ously a cheap media buy, and we all know that

Four predictions on the future of advertising. Yes, there is one.

Agen­cies have heard loudly that serv­ing the same old sauce isn’t going to land new clients and keep old ones. Things have to change soI’m going to go way out on a limb and make some predictions.

Jimmy’s Week on the InterWebs 8–28-09

Posted late because, hey, I’m busy. I think this is the story of the week just because it’s such a good exam­ple of both what is wrong and why there is hope for the social web. A PR firm, Reverb Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, was busted for gam­ing the iPhone app store. They seem pretty unapolo­getic about their behav­ior

Ten things advertising people need to know about social media

Image via Crunch­Base Notice this doesn’t say “Top Ten.” Just ten things, as a mod­est prac­ti­tioner of copy and social media, I think aren’t obvi­ous to peo­ple com­ing to social media from adver­tis­ing. I expect some peo­ple will have a few prob­lems with this list. That should be expected, we are still defin­ing social media.