I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
I've spent the last week worried about a long-planned trip to New York City. Hearing about the pending Hurricane Irene messed up a schedule I had organized. But I needed to be in New York for an engagement on Monday.
Yesterday HubSpot, a social media marketing company, acquired oneforty a company that created a directory of social media applications and the social media marketing tool SocialBase.
UPDATE: Craig Kallin, Senior Vice President of Marketing Services for Acsys Interactive commented on the blog post. Thanks, Craig.
I have been both a journalist and a public relations practitioner so I have an advantage when thinking about the ways that you can use real-time content to get mentioned in the media.
I've said many times that the best way to reach reporters is when they are looking for what you have. It's real-time communication with reporters when they are working on a story that gets you (or your clients) into the news.
For companies seeking media coverage, the conventional method relies on the PR team to spend a week drafting a press release that is then vetted by management and legal counsel. Weeks later, once the release finally gets distributed, PR staffers work the phones to plead with...
What was once a predictable twenty-four-hour news cycle driven by the evening television news broadcasts and daily newspaper production deadlines is now an always-on, real-time, constantly evolving flow of news from thousands of mainstream sources.
I've had discussions with quite a few people in the last few months who are confused about the role of Public Relations in the new world of the Web.