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Here is a quick, real life example for how to estimate your competitor’s event marketing budget and get a hint as to when they’re going to launch a new product or service in 10 steps: 1) List your key competitors. You know your market and the main players in your space so make a list. … Continue reading 10 Steps for Social Competitive Intelligence
Traditional Competitive Intelligence is in a rut. Books, websites, whitepapers and presentations all echo the same techniques and priorities that defined the practice 10 years ago. Research public filings, read credentialed analyst reports, talk to employees and former employees if you can, be careful of blogs they might not be trustworthy. Social media? Be extra … Continue reading Social Competitive Intelligence
Travel website Tnooz and the European Travel Commission recently ran an article with a laundry list of social media recommendations for travel destinations. They scored the top travel locations and found that, in aggregate, they stink at social media. This is surprising since most people love to holiday in exotic and exciting locations, have a … Continue reading 14 Social Recommendations for Travel Destinations
There are many kinds of customer communities, from fans on Facebook, to private communities that congregate on company forums. But what makes people join up? What keeps them coming back? How can you start getting your customer community engaged? We asked five highly credentialed experts about this. They have practical advice and some profound insights … Continue reading How To Build A Killer Community – The Experts’ Roundtable
Contract workers, contingent workforce and “solopreneurs” are on the rise. It is not just by a little bit. The combination of a slow economy, technology that lets people work from anywhere and a structural shift in the understanding that work is something you do and not just some place you go is driving changes in … Continue reading Managing Employee Engagement When You Have No Employees
There are those who claim “email is dead”, “search is dead”, “ECM is dead” and so on. I’ve been guilty of that too. We’re right but it doesn’t matter. Technology is always superseded by better, faster, more disruptive technology. But few businesses are in the business of spending money on the latest and greatest tech. We can … Continue reading Why Your Company Wont Adopt Social Business Technology
The flip side of all the advances is social media marketing is a substantial increase in competitive intelligence capability. First 3 facts for foundation: 1) It should be clear by now that social media is not a technology fad. It’s not just about Facebook or Twitter. Otherwise we’d see those technologies leading the social adoption … Continue reading Social Competitive Intelligence
It is Oracle Open World 2012 and this year the theme is cloud. There are the obligatory 12″c” (the c is for cloud) release announcements. There are the staggering statistics (10,000 Oracle Cloud customers already). At Oracle Open World 2012, the cloud is red. Over the last year Oracle has acquired no fewer than 5 … Continue reading The Red Cloud
Here is a presentation I gave at the Rotary Club District Conference Yesterday. The crowd was very receptive and laughed at all the right spots which is always good. Please contact me if you’d like me to present this to your team, company or club. The notes section contains speaking notes, references and image citations. … Continue reading The Social Media Shift
Beneath all the social media advice are requirements that must be uncovered if businesses have any hope of putting it to work. Here are real Day-Zero strategies to help you tap into and nurture the interest of your employees, fans and partners.
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