Monday, January 11, 2010

Social Marketing Strategy On Line Behavior Case Study

One of the 1st steps of any Social Media Strategy is understand your target markets On-lines behavior. Check out this target market case study.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

In 2009 we learned a lot about Digital Marketing but in 2010




I invite you to join the 2nd Instinct social networks in the new decade and we will explore this new digital world together !!!
In 2009 we learned a lot about Digital Marketing but in 2010 it will be critical for your business to understand the changing marketing landscape. Social networking and Search Marketing is engulfing the world in which we live and changing the way we do business. While people still dictate the trends and focusing on your target audiences is even more critical, marketing communications now happens at the speed of a tweet and the rate of a click. This rate of evolution means that social networking with your target audience will be a completely different experience from one month to the next. Where and how you generate business, come up with ideas, and meet new clients is never going to be the same.  
In these tough economic times it is critical  to get the most out of your marketing budget, and to insure your customer engagement strategy is focused on where your customers congregate, learn and share.

I invite you to join the 2nd Instinct  social networks in the new decade and we will explore this new digital world together !!!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Inbound Marketing Strategy

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Building Web Development Team Partnerships


 
2nd Instinct specializes in building web teams to design, develop and optimize B2B and B2C web sites. I focus on Project Management, Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing, therefore I am looking for Web Designers, Web Programmers and Web Copy Professionals to partner with in order to help each other expand our web project businesses. To give you an idea of my strategy focus please take a look at the following links.


If you know someone in the web development business please share the love, shoot me an Email or send me a tweet.


Thank you so much for visiting our Blog and Happy Holidays to you ...Peace!!!

Don Frattaroli
Practice Lead

Friday, December 4, 2009

Wikipedia on Staying Relevant to a Diverse World | WebProNews

Wikipedia on Staying Relevant to a Diverse World | WebProNews

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Social Media Marketing Methods Defined !!!

What are the different types of  Social Media vehicles? How are they defined?  What are their purpose and How big is their user base?

It is important to understand these are the tools today however innovation will occure and tomorrow there will be more.

Social Networks
  • A community of personal web pages
  • Connect with friends to share content & communication
  • Facebook (300 M) MySpace(76 M) Linkedin (36 M ) Bebo(40 M)
Blogs

  • Web log online journals, personal & conversational
  • Identified group or author around a defined topic
  • Includes viewer commentary & RSS feed distribution
  • Blog posts/ day (1M)
Forums

  • Topical online discussion groups
  • Oldest SM, moderator will not lead discussion
  • Board tracker 40K forums including (61M conversations)
Micro Blog
  • Networking, Mini Blogs & instant messaging
  • Mobile, online(RSS) distribution popular CNN,BBC
  • Twitter (1M) - 90 % Twitter Com offsite - applications
Content Communities
  • Registration sites focused on one type of content (Public or Private)
  • 2005 Yahoo – Flickr $30M , 2006 - Google/YouTube $1.65B
  • YouTube 100M videos/day, Social Bookmarking - Dig
Wiki 
  • Community collaborative online projects
  • Wikipedia(Started 2001) 10 M articles - 280 language
  • Wikia, WikiHow & Wikinews
Podcasts 

  •  Subscription base online audio or video files
  • Time shifting - Shift in media consumption patterns
  • Leveled playing field for individuals & traditional media
  • PC,MP3 Player i.e. ITunes

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Emerson College Social Media lecture 11-2009

My Social Media Marketing Lecture to two classes at Emerson College Boston MA

My focus was Inbound Marketing : Social and Search marketing Strategy. After the lecture Q&A I helped the students integrate Social Media Marketing into there class projects. A very enjoyable evening with great dialog.

Emerson College Social Media lecture 11-2009

Don Frattaroli
2ndinstinct.com
Twitter @dfratt4

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