HubSpot TV – The Southern Edition

September 20th, 2009

Episode #58 – September 18th, 2009
(Episode Length: 22 minutes, 01 seconds)

Intro

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The Economy: four company buyouts

Doing it Right

Headlines

Creativity is King!

How Do You Market Successfully Today? Same As Always: Creatively
The tools needed to achieve marketing success today have changed a little.
The shotgun approach of blasting everyone is a thing of the past
Content
creation IS the marketing strategy. The more value we can produce and
the more channels we can fit into, the more likely we are to be found.
The web allows you to spend your dollars more wisely and analyze what you are spending on
Marketing Takeaway: Keep working to create and promote great content. Practice makes perfect!

SugarRays Twitter Hunt

http://twitter.com/SUGARRAY20
Ray Allen hid pairs of his new shoes around Boston and Hartford and then send out tweetpics so people could find them
If u are standing in this spot u are real hot: (http://twitpic.com/hqdj9)
Marketing Takeaway: Think of interesting ways to use new tools to promote your content.

Do businesses need a Social Media Administrator?

Is it time for companies to hire a Social Media Administrator?
“The role would be someone who manages and provides consistency with an organization’s social media presence.”
Social Media Administrator
“The
job of the Social Media Adminstrator would to not only update our
various SM Outlets but also monitor trends and discussions.”
Isn’t this what a PR person is suppose to do? – going back to marketing still requires creativity here folks
Marketing Takeaway: As Marketers you need to be thinking about marketing creatively and using all the new available tools.

Brands and Products on Twitter

Twenty Percent Of Tweets Mention Brands, Products
“Researchers
at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST)
scanned through over 500,000 tweets for the study;”
“One-out-of-every
five updates were either requests (to friends, followers or the
companies directly) for product info, or responses to these requests.”
Marketing Takeaway: Make sure you are listening to Twitter (and all social media) for mentions of your brands.

Original Networking Oragnaizations Turn to Social Media

Original social networkers turn to Web to survive
“traditional social and service groups like Lions Club, Rotary and Kiwanis have seen their numbers stagnate or decline”
“In
the past year, though, many clubs have taken an
if-you-can’t-beat-them-join-them approach to social media and are
finding that online tools promote their causes and draw new members.”
Marketing
Takeaway: Social media isn’t going anywhere, it’s time to take the
“if-you-can’t-beat-them-join-them” approach for your business.

Forum Fodder

Marketing Tip of the Week: Keep being creative in your marketing!

Closing