Monthly Archives: April 2010
April 29, 2010
Modern Marketing Manifested in Retail Design
We have a Firestone Complete Auto Care Store across the street from our office here at Media Logic. They mainly sell tires and do some other car care maintenance. I hadn’t been in the store in a year or so, but this week I had to stop in to get my wiper blades replaced (I know, I should’ve gone to Pep Boys and saved $20, but I didn’t).
Upon entering the store it was clear that the interior had been completely overhauled since my last visit. They did a really nice job. It was as if Firestone decided to tap the modern marketing ethos – facilitate conversation and establish authenticity – as their design inspiration.
April 27, 2010
Conversatiated: Mr. Personality Gets Engaged
In this installment of Conversatiated, Media Logic Account Supervisors Josh and Fred discuss how an effective conversation-centric marketing strategy requires more than just great personality to garner engagement and loyalty.
April 22, 2010
Celebrating the Power of Social Media at Foursquare Day
Back in January, I wrote my first App Spotlight blog post here on Logical Juice, about Foursquare. Since then it has become one of the most popular apps available across all mobile platforms, and is now only days away from hitting the 1 million registered users mark.
The popularity of the app gave rise to last week’s first annual Foursquare Day, the first globally recognized grass-roots celebration of the power of social media…
And I was lucky enough to have received an invitation to join in the festivities.
April 21, 2010
Engaging the Aging: Creating Conversation for SilverSneakers
Through our recent work with Healthways SilverSneakers, Media Logic is proving the value of strategic social marketing for membership-based organizations. In partnership with us, SilverSneakers has employed a nimble social media content development strategy and our revolutionary social media management suite, Zeitgeist & Coffeesm, to enhance its engagement with members – increasing participation, fostering loyalty and stimulating new membership growth.
Watch as our conversation manager, Michelle, provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Media Logic and SilverSneakers are using social media as a marketing tool for collaboration and interaction with an active community of older adults.
Posted in How to Go Social, Social Marketing, Zeitgeist & Coffee
Tagged collaboration, communities, conversation manager, engagement, growth, interaction, loyalty, membership organizations, seniors, Silver Sneakers, social media as a marketing tool, social media content development, social media management suite, strategic social marketing, Zeitgeist & Coffee
April 15, 2010
Duck! Rabbit! Duck! Seeing Beyond the Social Ownership Illusion
Who owns social, anyway? It’s the question Pete Blackshaw asks in his insightful 4/12/2010 Ad Age article.
Blackshaw does a wonderful job highlighting the dualities and absurdities (not to mention clichés) that emerge in any discussion of social ownership. I think these dualities emerge because what we have in social is one of those “duck/rabbit” or “vase/face” optical illusions which delight and frustrate us because, although we can see both things easily, our brains won’t allow us to see both at the same time. “It’s a duck! It’s a rabbit! It’s a duck!”
It’s the same with social.
April 7, 2010
Content Means Business. But it Takes Collaboration not Automation.
Looking to develop new leads for your business?
Wondering why new visits to your website are declining even though you use Twitter and have a Facebook profile or fanpage?
Are you blogging?
According to the State of Small Business Report from Network Solutions in conjunction with the University of Maryland School of Business (with a tip-of-the-hat to HubSpot for featuring data from the report on their blog), fewer than 40% of U.S. small businesses blog about their area of expertise. Let’s rephrase that: nearly 60% of small businesses are leaving their content on the table. And by “on the table,” I mean nowhere to be found.
So why should you care?
April 5, 2010
Putting Conversation at the Core
We are conversation-centric in theory… and in practice. We’re using social media to put collaboration and conversation at the core of our business. Are you?