As a marketing coach and social media marketing strategist who has worked in the past as a senior level sales executive in TV advertising, my first measurement is always… sales? Has your sales increased from your efforts using Social Media Marketing? Do you know your ROI? My client, Haven From Hunger, recently won a $20K [...]

Social Media Marketing is still very new and so we are seeing many many marketing professionals jump in and call themselves “Social Media Marketing Strategist or Professionals”.   Some are, but many are not.  So, before you sign-up for a class or attend a seminar or hire a company to help you with your Social Media [...]

As we end the first month of 2013, we notice that more businesses have added staff positions to handle their on-line marketing or have hired outside Social Media Marketing Consultants to manage their Social Media Campaigns.  Content…content…content…that is the buzz word for 2013. Companies will spend more time and money creating quality content that will [...]

There is no doubt that getting results from Social Media Marketing takes time, needs a clear strategy and a true understanding of how to engage an audience that is being bombarded with information.  So, what does a small business do when they lack the time and money to invest in the help they need to [...]

The biggest reason why businesses fail at Social Media Marketing is that they don’t understand that talking at someone is not the same as talking with someone.  The word “social” implies that there is a conversation between two or more people.  Many businesses use sites like Facebook to push their marketing messages out to the [...]

Social Media Marketing is an excellent way for a business to generate more business exposure and help to brand their business, but how do you get more clients from the time invested with Blogging and social sites? Converting online contacts to clients is most likely the real reason any of us spend the time we [...]

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Do you need a road map for all the Social Media Sites? For most business owners this on-line world is most likely making your head spin and just when you mastered the use of Facebook or Twitter you “StumbleUpon”  about 10 other sites that are up and coming and need your immediate attention.  Are you [...]

OK, so that is probably a strange title for today’s Purple Diamond Marketing Blog, but as I listened to the news talk about Groundhog Day and if the Groundhog will see his shadow to help us know if winter will soon be over I laughed and realized it is much like the trends in marketing.  [...]