Category: A Triumph of Hope

Part Two: Time to Come Clean: Organic Social Media Marketing Doesn’t Work This is the second in a five-part series that looks into social media marketing moving into 2021. Part One examined the marketing industry’s ongoing challenge with understanding and processing its data, and how this contributes to poor decision-making related to social media marketing. In this part we take a look at some data demonstrating the ineffectiveness of social media marketing that all too many marketers seem to want to ignore. Part Three makes some suggestions on what exactly we should do about it. Part Four takes one of these…

Part Three: Untethering the Intractable: Undoing Marketers’ Confirmation Biases This is the third in a five-part series that looks into social media marketing moving into 2021. Part One examined the marketing industry’s ongoing challenge with understanding and processing its data, and how this contributes to poor decision-making related to social media marketing. Part Two took a look at some data demonstrating the ineffectiveness of social media marketing that all too many marketers seem to want to ignore. This post makes some suggestions on what exactly we should do about it. Part Four takes one of these suggestions and fleshes it…

Part Four: The Case for Social Media in Customer Care This the fourth in a five-part series that looks into social media marketing moving into 2021. Part One examined the marketing industry’s ongoing challenge with understanding and processing its data, and how this contributes to poor decision-making related to social media marketing. In Part Two we took a look at some data demonstrating the ineffectiveness of social media marketing that all too many marketers seem to want to ignore. Part Three made some suggestions about what exactly we should do about it. Now we take one of these suggestions and…

Part Five: The Shift from Social Media Marketing to Social Care Header Photo by Dawid Zawiła on Unsplash This is the last in a five-part series that looks into social media marketing moving into 2021. Part One examined the marketing industry’s ongoing challenge with understanding and processing its data, and how this contributes to poor decision-making related to social media marketing. Part Two took a look at some data demonstrating the ineffectiveness of social media marketing that all too many marketers seem to want to ignore. Part Three made some suggestions on what exactly we should do about it. Part Four…