By Mike McCready on March 31, 2010
I wrote a post last year where I talked about my experience with the ineffectiveness of using Facebook Ads to promote our college website. Over the past few months we’ve run two Facebook Ad campaigns that were highly successful. The first one was an alumni campaign, the second a Facebook Fan Page campaign. Alumni Facebook [...]
Posted in Facebook, Marketing | Tagged Advertising, Brand, Conversion rate, facebook, Fan Page, Marketing, Social Media
By Mike McCready on October 6, 2009
The idea for this post came to me as I was driving to work this morning. I heard a radio jingle for a local mall. The jingle sung about how the mall had lots of shopping and lots of fun. If you had ever been to this mall, you would most likely disagree with the claim in the jingle.
Posted in Marketing | Tagged Advertising, Brand, Business, Higher education, HigherEd Web, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising
By Mike McCready on August 13, 2009
In January I wrote a post titled, ‘Social Media… Is It a Fad?‘. In this post I started to address some of the reasons why I think Social Media is NOT a fad. This video there are some very interesting statistics about social media usage and predictions for the future. This video has a similar [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged blogging, blogs, Brand, Communication, Media, Social Media, Social Network, social networking, Statistics, strategy, Twitter, Web 2.0, Weblogs, YouTube
By Mike McCready on April 13, 2009
I came across this video on YouTube and I have to admit I wasn’t very impressed with the acting skills and I wasn’t sure what was up with the ‘god’ like voice. But the message hits home and is so true. Take a look: In an earlier post called Social Media Marketing, I offered some [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Tips & Tricks, Twitter | Tagged Brand, connection, facebook, friendship, Marketing, social, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube
By Mike McCready on March 24, 2009
Image via CrunchBase In my Domain Name Best Practices post, I suggested buying similar TLDs to protect your institution’s identity from would be corporate identity thieves. It appears that there is a new threat to brand identity theft – Twitter Squatting. I hadn’t heard of this trend until searching for web professionals using Twitter in [...]
Posted in Marketing, Tips & Tricks, Twitter | Tagged Brand, Brand Management, Identity theft, Social Media, Social Network, trends, Twitter
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