Call Tracking
Call Tracking

How Can Call Tracking Help Your Business? Call tracking helps your business track the success of any digital campaign and separate what’s working from what isn’t: Tracking campaigns: Call tracking…

Strategy: Owned Media Before Earned & Paid #OwnedMediaRocks

Once again I sit through another meeting where a public relations professional’s performance is based on the number of print articles earned in the local newspaper. This has driven me to finally write this post. Owned media can be a huge influencer for earned and paid. Let’s be honest, earned media is about relationships. Organizations […]

Great Digital Approach to Zika Virus by Mayo Clinic #digitalhealth

This is one of the best updates from a hospital when it comes to the Zika virus. It comes from Mayo Clinic, and here is why it is works extremely well: It is simple! Dispels the myths Provides information in written and video form. It is sharable. It provides media outlets video content to download […]

Digital and Social Media Impact of Zika Virus: Strategy Recommendations

There is increased search on Google for information about Zika virus, based on data supplied by Google Trends. Charleston, SC is leading the state geographically with increased Google search about the virus along with our neighboring state (Georgia) seeing an increased amount of search. Bottom-line, people are searching and seeking information. Over the past few […]

Should hospitals use social and digital to talk about Zika Virus?

I am watching the digital curve surrounding Zika virus from inside Google Trends alongside monitoring the amount of conversation on Facebook using the Signal product. It was just yesterday that we noticed that Zika Virus moved to the trending position in Facebook after the media covered President Obama’s announcement surrounding funding to attack Zika virus. […]

Own Your Earned Media on the Web

In a recent report by Forrester Research called “No Media Stands Alone” media is broken up into three areas: Earned Media: Editorial influence of your brand, like a blog post…

Social Media Leverage for Small Businesses

Small business owners know that it takes community interaction to create growth. As the social media community continues to increase in size, small businesses are becoming interested in an online…

Community Management/Managers: Do we take ourselves too seriously?

I have always been caught in this dilemma…when it comes to managing a brand’s community or community within a brand, what is best for the community? Who should be really managing the community? One with experience with the Message? Community Management? Social Media Management? Brand Management? The actual brand employee(s)? From the agency side, the […]