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Social Media Research

A small collection of white papers and presentations for those wanting to learn more about how social media is impacting marketing strategy. This list is by no means exhaustive, but it is a great start on learning the basics to take advantage of current trends. Social media can be a great addition to your marketing toolbox.

BrandCamp by Tom Fishburn

Small business and social media discussion

On Monday, Jan 8, I will be talking at the ISBO (Independent Small Business Owner) monthly luncheon on “The Impact of Social Media on Marketing”. This should be a great group to present to. Social media is a great way for small businesses to take advantage of market conversations. I know I’m preaching to the choir in the blogosphere, but a lot of small companies haven’t gotten on board yet – and the primary reason why they haven’t is that they don’t know how or didn’t know it was available. I hope to open a few eyes to why mainstream media and advertising isn’t the best bet for budget dollars.

If you’re in the area, feel free to join us:

The private room at the Golden Buffet Chinese restaurant on Richmond Rd, Lexington, KY, 12:00p on Monday 1-8-07

Marketing Evolution Carnival #1 – January 2, 2007

Marketing (r)evolution Carnival

Welcome to the January 2, 2007 edition of Marketing (r)evolution Carnival brought to you by Nick Rice @ Strategic Design.

This Carnival is an aggregation of some of the best thoughts on the future of advertising, branding, marketing and strategy. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

Advertising

Valeria Maltoni presents Where’s the Benefit to me? posted at Conversation Agent, saying, “Thank you for this opportunity to contribute to the conversation.”

Chris Houchens presents Users First posted at Shotgun Marketing BLOG, saying, “Your customers are what “monetize” a business. Stop developing short term strategies that kill long term gains.”

Murad Ali presents Three (3) Easy Ways to Optimize Your Blog posted at The New Marketing World.

Branding

Jack Yoest presents Rocky Balboa: Courage, Integrity, Faith, Victory The Movie posted at Reasoned Audacity, saying, “Your Business Blogger was in Philly recently and wondered about the Rocky statue that was briefly at the top of the 72 steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Since September, the statue is now at the base of the steps. So I decided to ask the man who might know, Sylvester Stallone. Why? I asked him. Rocky Sly says, It’s better where it is — at the base of the steps. At the top was the completion — the end — but it’s not the completion that counts — it’s the journey. The Effort; The Passion.”

Kevin Skarritt presents Jingle all the Way posted at Nuts and Bolts of Brand.

Marketing

C.B. Whittemore presents Shelly Lazarus on the Future of Advertising & Marketing posted at Flooring The Consumer.

David Maister presents I Can’t Believe This Worked on Me! posted at Passion, People and Principles, saying, “We all love to believe that we are very rational in our own buying, but there are times when marketing and selling approaches that we would like to believe don’t work on us, well, they actually do.”

Kevin Skarritt presents Control Freak! posted at Nuts and Bolts of Brand.

Matthew Paulson presents The Problem with Quixtar & Amway. posted at Getting Green.

Charles H. Green presents Bad Marketing 101: Trust Me! posted at Trust Matters, saying, “What are the two most trust-destroying words you can say? “Trust me!”"

Mike Sansone presents Is del.icio.us a Marketing Tool? posted at Converstations.

Strategy

Andy Nulman presents Theory 2-Intimate Goes Big posted at Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise, saying, “Happy to be at the carnival, and wondering if the rights to the cotton candy concession are still available.”

Tim Peter presents What Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft will buy in 2007 and why… » thinks posted at Tim Peter thinks…, saying, “This is from about a week ago, but I think it takes a broad look at media 2.0 in 2007. Enjoy!”

Tim Peter presents What’s the least you can do? » thinks posted at Tim Peter thinks…, saying, “This is an another post that you might also find useful. Enjoy.”

Matthew Paulson presents Gold: A Bad Investment posted at Getting Green.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Marketing (r)evolution Carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: marketing (r)evolution carnival, blog carnival, marketing, advertising, strategy, branding

Z-lister explodes

I’ve watched viral web pieces gather steam and take off like a rocket to the moon. But I’ve never been a part of one until now. This all started with Mack Collier wanting to spread a little link love to a few blogs that he thought deserved a little more attention. A few folks added a few more links until it became a monster unto itself.

My story is an interesting case study in Technorati logic. I had been debating whether or not to move from Blogger to Wordpress. One thing that had always stopped me was the fact that I would have to lose my links and ranking. But I made the move anyway (looking back I should have done it much earlier).

When the z-list meme began, I had 2 blogs linking to me and a Technorati rank of roughly 260,000. After a week or so of the meme blowing up across the internet (including postings from marketing guru Seth Godin and Digitas Creative VP David Armano), this blog now has 67117 links and a new ranking of 49,372 25,448. Seth is even attempting to leverage the new functionality in Squidoo called Plexo for user ranking. Though is particular Plexo is turning into its own mini-Technorati, the technology is cool, if not a little slow. As of right now, Strategic Design is setting at #48 of 262.

But the best part isn’t the numbers, it’s the new blogs and people that I’ve been introduced to. As the blogosphere continues to grow, it gets harder and harder to find good content. And while I’ll probably never be a Top 100 blogger, it has been nice to let the power of the web do a little natural marketing for me.

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A little holiday love

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone reading. I hope your time off work is refreshing and beneficial. And I hope that 2007 is your best year yet.

Marketing Evolution Carnival Submission

Ok readers, I’ve set up a new Blog Carnival. It’s called the Marketing Evolution Carnival.

Please submit your blog posts related to the future of marketing, strategy, branding and creativity. Carnivals are a great way to expose your content to a broad audience. On Jan 2 or 3 I’ll post all of the submissions on this blog with links to each article. So I’ll need your post submissions by Dec. 30th.

So find your best marketing/branding/strategy 2.0 writing and submit them for the Carnival. After that, I’ll do all of the work and let you know when it’s live.

Latest posts on SmallBusinessBranding.com

SmallBusinessBranding.com is starting to take off. We have a goal of 1000+ subscribers and we are seeing consistent growth. Here are my latest posts:

The Business of Business

A Lesson from the Garage

Lack of Creativity is Killing Business

Z-lister link love update

Many thanks to Mack for putting together the original list of “z-list” bloggers that need a little attention. The goal was to disrupt the Technorati rankings by sharing a little link love amongst authors with great content but without the recognition of Top 100 bloggers.

Here’s the original list:

Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
darrenbarefoot.com
Two Hat Marketing

The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice | marketing & branding thoughts
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly

Customers are always

Small Business Branding

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The jump to Wordpress

It’s coming up on one year of blogging and I’ve had the best time. I started on Blogger and tweaked the heck out of their templates before I made the decision to switch platforms. Wordpress is great and doesn’t have the stigma that Blogger does; not that there aren’t a lot of valuable blogs on Blogger, just that there’s a lot of splogs too.

Anyway, here’s the new home. Hope you continue to enjoy the posts.

Best of 2006 follow up

I mentioned David Armano’s push to capture the best of 2006 (from a social media perspective) the other day.

He’s compiled his report and it’s available on his blog. I opened it up and lo and behold, there was part of my comment to him on page four.

David is really making a dent in one of the largest marketing companies around. And his good work has not gone unnoticed, a few months back he was promoted to VP. So now that he has greater reach and visibility, I’m looking forward to seeing him influence and shape new media . I hope he doesn’t get too bogged down in the management aspect of his new role. Thanks David.