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relationship management

6 Considerations for DIY social monitoring

by Peter McMahon July 3, 2010
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I recently made the observation that consumers increasingly expect the brands that they interact with to answer back within the social media context. More and more, we find evidence of growing frustration and a new kind of social consumer expectation. I recently posted this to our company website. Whilst its not the sort of content [...]

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What messages does your digital presence really send about your brand?

by Peter McMahon January 4, 2010
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Recently I stumbled upon Seth Godin’s typically erudite definition of brand value. According to Seth…”a brand’s value is merely the sum total of how much extra people will pay, or how often they choose, the expectations, memories, stories and relationships of one brand over the alternatives.” Hmmm.
It struck me that expectation and relationship are particularly [...]

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Is your social media activity a one night stand?

by Peter McMahon November 21, 2009
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Yesterday I indulged one of my favourite hobbies – eavesdropping. God I love it! The conversation centred around Twitter and to a lesser degree Facebook. Without doubt it was a marketing discussion. The important thing about this conversation was that the notion of strategy and relationships didn’t make it into the conversation.

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SM should not have to be bondage

by Peter McMahon November 13, 2009
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A friend of mine recently lamented the amount of time that he spends Tweeting. For him there is a sense that he has become strangely enslaved to the harmless blue bird.

I endeavoured to find out whether he had started out with a social media plan in mind but I couldnt seem to get a straight answer. That tells me something in itself.

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