This week at South by Southwest, Simon Pearce (@Simonpearcelive) talked to Sandy Carter of IBM (@sandy_carter) about how to communicate the benefits of Social Media within the enterprise. Sandy talked about ROI, overcoming the social media fear factor and how to talk to your colleagues effectively about social.
Back in 2008 I was happily doing what analysts do: tagging sites, analyzing data and spending a whole lot of time complaining about the lack of buy-in, recommendations going nowhere and how miserable and...
Over the past week, the Digerati has been all up in arms about a recent article in which a Coca-Cola executive publicly announced that social media has very little direct impact on short-term sales....
By: Sri Sridharan, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research. Follow her on Twitter @Srividya.
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I pity the marketing organization. It has to deal with a lot of change. First it was the pesky empowered consumer. Then it was understanding device proliferation and cross-media consumption. As if that wasn’t...
The internet has reshaped the consumer’s path-to-purchase more than anything since Bulova aired the first television advertisement in 1941. Although online advertising has been around since Prodigy was promoting Sears’ products in the 1980s,...