Tag Archives: marketing
How Do You Sell More Hats?
Let’s say you run an online store selling, I don’t know, let’s call it hats. And let’s say that your site gets 100 visitors each and every day. Out of those 100, let’s say 2 of them buy a hat. (For what it’s worth, 2% is a pretty average conversion rate for an un-optimized e-commerce [...]
Spending the Weekend at Social South (aka #SoSo)
We here at [meta]marketer are advocates of recognizing any potentially meaningful tools that may exist in the marketer’s toolbox. But tools, whether a hammer or a broadcast email, have unique characteristics, and so we regard each tool with the following observations: You should measure carefully when using any tool. Each tool is not relevant to [...]
Social Media for Business: Metrics and Risk Management
Last week, I presented at a workshop at Lipscomb University called “Social Media Revolution” along with fellow local social media experts Bill Seaver of MicroExplosion Media and Rob Robinson of McNeely Pigott & Fox. The thrust of my portion of the event was on measurement and risk management, and since these are topics that our [...]
Why Startups Succeed, Why Startups Fail
I was meeting with someone recently who asked if I have any advice about what causes startups to succeed or fail. At first blush, it’s a funny question to ask someone who’s starting up a company; I mean, I should really be the one seeking advice. On the other hand, I have been involved in [...]
Beyond Foodtweets: Social Media Optimization (SMO) for Small Business
Yes, Virginia, there is value in social media. A remarkable amount of businesspeople still think Twitter is a waste of time and Facebook is for silly quizzes. Some still think blogging is self-indulgent. But how do you get from “hello World” to something that actually drives your business?
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