Your home base and outposts are where you’re spending most of your time and effort online, but there may be other places that you need to spend a bit of time just so you know what’s going on. I call these places listening posts. They help round out your Internet strategy by providing you with information and intelligence (think like an spy!).
Jan
18
2010
Your 2010 Internet Strategy – Listening Posts
Jan
14
2010
Your 2010 Internet Strategy – Measurement
Measurement is vital to the success of any strategy, Internet or otherwise. You need to know whether or not your tactics are working towards helping you reach your goal and the only way to do that is to periodically measure what you’re doing. If tactics aren’t working, measurement can both help you identify them and figure out how to improve them.
Jan
13
2010
Your 2010 Internet Strategy – Content Strategies
A lot of businesses are using social media. And producing content. But when you take a closer look at their content (and to a lesser extend, their interactions), it’s all really thinly veiled marketing. While people may or may not mind being marketed to, it’s usually not what they consider useful information. If you really want your content to work for you, you need to take a closer look at exactly what you’re saying and how.
Jan
12
2010
Your 2010 Internet Strategy – Ways to Use Outposts
You’ve done some research and have decided on 3 or so outposts (see Friday’s post for more on outposts). There may be some confusion about the value of having outposts. Luckily Chris Brogan recently wrote a great post on how outposts improve your ecosystem. What I want to focus on today is some examples of how you can use your outposts – I think seeing a few examples may help clarify what a good outpost is and how you can use it.
Jan
08
2010
Your 2010 Internet Strategy – Outposts
An outpost is a place online that you use to connect with potential customers in order to eventually direct them to your home base. This isn’t just a place where you’re advertising or where you have a profile. An outpost is a place where you’re actively participating and where you’re creating content (or directing content from your home base). Outposts are an important part of your internet strategy because they are places where people will find your content or information for the first time and may lead to opportunities you wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Jan
06
2010
Getting Your 2010 Internet Strategy Off to The Right Start – Home Base
Now that you have your business goal, you can start to think about ways that the Internet can help you achieve that goal. To start off, it will helpful to identify your home base online. Identifying your home base will make it easier to figure out how to use all those social media accounts and online marketing to drive the right traffic to the right place.
Jan
05
2010
Getting Your 2010 Internet Strategy Off to The Right Start – Pick a Goal
It’s a new year! Time for planning, strategery and general optimism about the year! Whatever happened in 2009, now is the time to figure out where you want to be at the end of 2010 and start taking steps to get there. The first step for any strategy is to decide on a goal. And a good Internet strategy starts with a good business goal. Here’s what I think makes a good business goal…
Dec
22
2009
Best of 2009: Advantages & Disadvantages of Different Branding Strategies
It’s the end of another year and we’re highlighting the best posts of 2009…(originally posted March 25, 2009)
On Monday, we talked a bit about various branding strategies and why you should consider picking one to help your business and marketing strategies. With each branding strategy comes both advantages and disadvantages that you should be aware of.
Dec
18
2009
Predictions for 2010 & Scorecard for 2009
Time for the annual “looking ahead” post. From last year’s post, here were my predictions for 2009:
- Increase in Twitter use for businesses
- Smartphone growth
- Businesses providing more content – blogs, video, audio, and increasing the ways they interact with their customers.
Dec
11
2009
When Marketing Goes Wrong
It’s nothing new. Some marketing person has the brilliant idea to run a viral marketing campaign that then causes negative publicity because it was clearly a bad idea (for example: micheal jordan hoax and burger king shower-girl). Was the original intention to deceive or just cause a stir? Who knows? Did the marketing turn out the way the company’s had hoped? Marketing for hype often goes wrong and leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouth.
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