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Why Can’t Brands Connect?

by · August 11, 2011

So brands are chomping at the bit to jump into Google+ ?

Understandable, but the truth is most big brands — and most companies — are still struggling with the other platforms. Social media is still foreign to them, and most flail around like fish out of water.

Marketers know this problem. The issue was raised again in a nicely written piece recently in Advertising Age. The author concludes with, “In a nutshell, they need to act less like brands and more like people.”

The problem

Building

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How To Reach No. 1 On The AdAge Power 150 List

by · September 10, 2009

Apparently, Social Media Explorer spent much of last week at No. 1 on the AdAge Power 150 list. Lots of folks have congratulated me as if I’d won some great prize. I’m sure some people on the list have crocked an eyebrow at the rating wondering what kind of back door engineering I participated in over the last few months to game the system and jump up the charts. Several people, online and off, have asked me how I did it.

I did one thing and one thing, only. I posted good content.

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