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Melissa Drozdowski

Melissa Drozdowski

Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part VI

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Dear readers, we’ve come a long way during this journey across the livestreaming and live social sharing landscape, but our travels are nearly at end. To wrap things up, I want to share a few of the terrific questions that came from the audience during our Boosting Conference Engagement with Live Social Media webinar. I […]

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Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part V

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.” Almost two and a quarter centuries later, and his advice is still spot-on. If you’ve been following this Master Class series or checked out our webinar on event marketing and live social sharing, then you know it’s time to start […]

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Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part IV

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“A minute of video is worth 1.8 millions words.” ~ Dr. James McQuivey, Forrester Research If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is one second of video worth? According to Forrester’s Dr. James McQuivey, it’s 30,000 words. My math skills aren’t the best but here’s how the arithmetic breaks down: if a picture […]

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Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part III

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So, in Parts I and II of this event marketing Master Class series that is the companion to our recent Boosting Conference Engagement with Live Social Media webinar, we looked at the why and how of live social sharing. Now, I want to zoom in on one particular aspect: livestreaming. Once again, we’re going to […]

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Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part II

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime ~ Chinese proverb You know what they say – give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he’ll be out on […]

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Command Attention: Social Event Marketing Strategies That Actually Work, Part I

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“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.” ~ Walt Disney Event marketing. A tried-and-true staple of […]

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Valentine’s Day and B2B – A Match Made In Heaven

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Show your customers you care – download, customize, and share our free Valentine’s Day social media greeting cards: http://bit.ly/IPValentine Roses are red, Violets are blue, Here’s how to tell customers, “We’re thinking of you” Ahhh, Valentine’s Day, with its chocolates, flowers, frothy greeting cards, and over-the-top marriage proposals. Festooned as it is in red bows, pink […]

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Dude, Do You Even Wiki? A Wikipedia Master Class, Part IV

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Well, we finally made it – we’ve come to the final whistle stop in our Wikipedia Master Class journey. Along the way, we’ve discovered what it takes to get started, Wikipedia’s process and the various pages you’ll encounter; and the Five Pillars (and the Very Bad Things that happen should you choose to ignore them). […]

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Dude, Do You Even Wiki? A Wikipedia Master Class, Part III

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John Green, author of that four-hanky tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars once said, “Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.” It’s probably the purest description I’ve heard of the conundrum that defines Wikipedia to this day. In the first two installments in this Master […]

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Dude, Do You Even Wiki? A Wikipedia Master Class, Part II

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“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.” – Clay Shirky, writer and social media theorist Welcome back to our Wikipedia Master Class series. In the first installment, we covered the question of how to know whether your brand is ready for a Wikipedia article, and the first steps you need to take to […]

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