Raleigh Media Leaders

Raleigh Media Leaders networking event was a great success! Thanks to everyone who helped, supported and attended! Here are my take-aways…

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Search Marketing: You Must Bid on Your Brand

Over the years, I have heard many “professionals” debate how much Search Engine Real-Estate is appropriate when it comes to your own brand terms. What percentage of the listings you must “own”, or what keywords you must be on top for. I have heard that as long as you hold the top natural position, you don’t need the paid positioning. I’ve heard that you need a good mix of both. I’ve heard that with universal search you need a balance of everything. Regardless of what I’ve heard over the years, it is still my professional belief that you need to own EVERY spot on your branded search results as you possibly can.

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Three Simple Steps to Improving the RFP

There is not a lot of love out there for the RFP.  I came across this well-written post filled with respect for the agency-client relationship and disdain for the RFP.  I love their list of very valid points, so I thought of a few to expand upon.  I won’t bore you with my opinion on [...]

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Why Social Needs Search: Analytics Camp

Find out why social media must be coupled with search engine marketing. Analytics Camp is coming up soon in Chapel Hill. If you’re looking for more information, click here.

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Happiness Machine

Kudos to Coca Cola for their brilliant execution of the “Open Happiness” campaign, shot in Queens, NY. If you have not yet, check it out: In its first week online the video captured nearly 650,000 views. This is the kind of work that makes me thrilled to be in the advertising business!

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Productive Procrastination

My favorite ways to procrastinate by doing my job.

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Facebook App to Give to Charity

Mixing social media with social good is a recipe for success. The Chase Community Giving Facebook app allows users to vote for which charity will win $1 million.

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Good Times at the Triangle Nonprofit Meetup

Tuesday night I had the pleasure of meeting Elizabeth Turnbull of the Turnbull Marketing Group as she hosted this informational Meetup for nonprofits in the Triangle. January’s topic was on BRANDING – a concept famously overlooked or misunderstood by many nonprofits.   Elizabeth did a fantastic job of first defining “branding” and then building out a [...]

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Calling All Phones

Consumer frustration continues with the launch of Google’s Nexus One phone.

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Measuring Sentiment

The pitfalls of auto-sentiment for measuring social media ROI.

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New Year's Must-Know's for the CMO

I actually have about 25 of these, but if I ever wanted anyone to read to the end, I thought I should focus on the top 4… So, in no particular order, I wanted to address four items that I consistently saw overlooked or misunderstood in 2009 that I’d love to see corrected in 2010:

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Memorable Animations

As a motion designer, I’m always chomping at the bit* for the opportunity to create a compelling demo animation or presentation for a client or campaign. I love the whole process of collaborative brainstorming, storyboard doodling, key framing and tweening. A productive day = lots of crumpled ideas pinned to the board and scattered around [...]

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