by Minter Dial | Oct 16, 2012 | Social Media
With Facebook now a publicly traded company, brands in some kind of perpetual disarray and consumers still not trusting marketers, the question occurred to me: is Facebook trying to be all things to all people: Earned, Owned and Paid media? A dance between brand, user...
by Minter Dial | Oct 15, 2012 | Branding
To use or not to use? You know it’s a sad day when 18-year old Justin Bieber (91/100) is said to have more influence than Mick Jagger (whose stones are gathering no moss, as they have just announced two more shows both in London and in New York cf Rolling...
by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2012 | Social Media
If your boss comes to you and says, “Hey, why don’t we make a viral video?” you might want to consider running for the woods. As a brand, the chances of successfully making a video that goes viral is rather small and the odds can get much worse...
by Minter Dial | Oct 5, 2012 | Social Media
What is content marketing? There are plenty of great sources for defining what is content marketing, and none better than the entry in Wikipedia: Content marketing is “the creation and sharing of content in order to attract, acquire and engage clearly...
by Minter Dial | Oct 2, 2012 | Business
The Cults of Perfection and SecrecyA couple of days ago (Sept 28) both the US Intelligence and Apple did something simultaneously and quite counter cultural: they both admitted that they had made mistakes. Both the US intelligence and Apple have a history of not...
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