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We Interrupt This Program …

12 February 2013 ~ 0 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!… to fill you in on Nemo, the first named blizzard and the one that blanketed Connecticut with heavy snow and knocked out power to most of our communities. (And we appreciate the fact that it was a weekend snowstorm. [...]

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Social Media Screencast Review – Crowd Seats on Twitter

16 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Social Media Screencast Review – Crowd Seats on Twitter

Welcome to the fifth edition of Social Media Screencast Reviews. This review consists of my high-level thoughts on what Crowd Seats, a new daily deal site for sports tickets, is doing on Twitter. For those of you who are new visitors, here’s a little background on these screencast reviews. Every Tuesday we provide a free [...]

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Online Marketing Tweets of the Week (8/12/11)

12 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Online Marketing Tweets of the Week (8/12/11)

Happy Friday! If you’re new here, you should know that every Friday we do a weekly series that identifies some of the most interesting online marketing tweets from the past week. Here’s what we’ve handpicked tweets from 2011 CRM Evolution conference: If you come across interesting tweets that you’d like to nominate for inclusion in this [...]

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The Power of Influence Marketing: Why Klout Is and Isn’t Important

10 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

The Power of Influence Marketing: Why Klout Is and Isn’t Important

Marketers have been trying to figure out how to harness and leverage the power of influencers for years. Now the power of influence has reached social media marketing. And the company, Klout has made a bold statement, claiming that they can calculate online influence. We are going to explore why Klout both is and isn’t [...]

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Social Media Screencast Review – Invest In Social

09 August 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Social Media Screencast Review – Invest In Social

Welcome to the 4th edition of Social Media Screencast reviews. This review consists of my high-level thoughts on Invest In Social, a social media directory for agencies, vendors and consultants. If you’re new here, you’re probably wondering what this social media screencast mumbo-jumbo is all about. Here’s the deal: every Tuesday we’ll be providing free [...]

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UnMarketing Book Review

27 July 2011 ~ 3 Comments

UnMarketing Book Review

We are trying something different here on the eWayDirect blog: a book review. The book is UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging by Scott Stratten. In the style of this book, I’m going to try to make this review short and sweet. The Book:  Stratten gives practical advice about the new understanding of marketing or unmarketing. In [...]

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Interview With John Lusher on Twitter and Social Media

25 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Interview With John Lusher on Twitter and Social Media

A few weeks ago, I happened to see a tweet from John Lusher. John is the Director of Marketing at Consolidated Construction Services and a marketing and social media consultant. I clicked to view his stream of tweets and immediately noticed two things. He was having a ton of conversations with people He has tweeted [...]

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Finding the Balance Between Humanizing and Automating Your Social Media Efforts

20 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Finding the Balance Between Humanizing and Automating Your Social Media Efforts

Balance is the key to most things in life. Family, friends, work are important parts of life and if you don’t find the right balance things can get out of whack. The same goes for businesses using social media. This can be a challenge because companies use social media as a business tool, while many [...]

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Get More Email Subscribers and Facebook Likes By Understanding People’s Motivations

18 July 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Get More Email Subscribers and Facebook Likes By Understanding People’s Motivations

Like most kids, I used to always try to get more of what I wanted, especially if what I wanted wasn’t something I could easily get. I wanted more chances to play Super Mario World after school, more time to shoot basketball before going to bed, and more sweet cereals like Count Chocula and Lucky [...]

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How to Think Like Your Customers

13 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

How to Think Like Your Customers

As marketers, we sometimes use buzzwords like engagement, deliverability and integration. Armed with our marketing reports and case studies, sometimes we just need to take a step back. We need to remember to ask our ourselves basic questions like: “What do my customers think?” “Why do they Like our Facebook page?” “Do they find value [...]

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