By Mike McCready on July 8, 2010
This is a great video from Digital Royalty that clearly explains concepts for measuring social media efforts. They suggest establishing at least 2 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) in 3 categories: Volume Engagement Conversions It seems that measuring social media is a hot topic that many people have difficulty grasping, especially since much of what can [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media | Tagged Internet marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Social Media, social media metrics, Social Network
By Mike McCready on June 23, 2010
The following is a guest blog post from Mike Klein. Mike is an online communications strategist for the University of Saskatchewan. He’s an avid reader and he loves to write about marketing strategy on his blog: http://www.michaelklein.ca On June 1 I had the privilege of attending the Art of Marketing seminar in Calgary (thanks Mike!). [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Strategy | Tagged Advertising, Gary Vaynerchuk, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Mitch Joel, Twitter, University of Saskatchewan, Web Strategy
By Mike McCready on April 30, 2010
We’ve seen many videos talking about social media. You know the video, with an upbeat backtrack and countless statistics screaming across the video. These are thought provoking videos, but one thing is missing in all the statistics; human connections. Rogers Communications produced a great video that talks about technology and does provide thought provoking statistics, [...]
Posted in Web Technologies | Tagged Business, Marketing and Advertising, Rogers Communications, Social Media, Statistics, technology, trends
By Mike McCready on March 16, 2010
The phrase content is king goes way back to 1996 from an article by Bill Gates called Content is King. Since then, there have been countless article and presentations about how important content is. Most of them are around the context of making the sale or engaging visitors. Content is still king, but I would [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Strategy | Tagged content strategy, Market share, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, SEO, tips, Twitter, Web Strategy
By Mike McCready on October 22, 2009
I came across a campaign website for Lakehead University and at the very top of the website is the call-to-action, ‘Enter to win an Apple MacBook.’ At first glance all it appears that I need to do is supply an e-mail address. Upon submitting, I needed to provide more personal information like birth date, address, [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Strategy | Tagged Academia, Communication, Contests, Higher education, HigherEd Web, honesty, Internet marketing, Lakehead University, MacBook, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, recruitment, strategy, Website