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Posts Tagged: social media
Nokia Lumia 920: The Smart, The Bad and the Ugly
28 February on PassionDuring Social Media Week 13, I had the pleasure of testing the Nokia Lumia 920 for the whole week! A few tweeps and I, forever dubbed the #EpicNewsTeam, received a set of phones for a trail. Their campaign came with …
3 Rules for Delivering Your Passion
28 October on Advertising, Business, Customers, Featured, Marketing, SoMoLo, TwitterEveryone has a passion and often times we want to share this passion with others. Your message is important to you, but when you are delivering your message to others, you must consider where you deliver it, to whom you …
You’re A Fake And I Can Prove It!
22 August on Featured, SoMoLoUPDATE Status People released news that the platform now pulls up to 100,000 accounts and analyses up to 1000 of those accounts. Read more at their blog post. … Last week a new analytics platform took the twittersvere by storm. …
Bullshit Social Media Tactics
11 August on Business, Facebook, Marketing, Mobile, SoMoLo, TwitterSome of these are getting ridiculously out of hand. Vote for your favorite (most hated) and feel free to add your own!
The Social Footprint of Your Children
16 May on Facebook, SoMoLo, Tumblr81% of two-year-olds have some kind of digital footprint. Starling? A Study published by Internet security firm AVG found that 5% of babies under 2 have social media profiles, while 7% have an email address. What are these little guys …
“Business Excellence… Guns”
26 April on Business, Customers, PassionAll too often we’re inundated with the hype, jargon and buzz words of the world. Especially in the world of marketing and social media. We focus so much time on creating “channels” and utilizing the “latest tools” that we lose …
5 ways to improve your campaign…
11 April on Advertising, Experience, Marketing, SoMoLoThis video is one of the best ad campaigns I’ve seen in a while! It gets the audience neck deep in the product, evokes and amazing emotional response and ends with a memorable bang. But its still missing something: Although …
Kotex Launches FIRST Pinterest Campaign
09 April on Business, Customers, Experience, Marketing, Pinterest, SoMoLoKotex and Smoyz, an ad agency from Israel, launched the first Pinterst campaign targeting 50 influential users. The results were interesting… The campaign only garnered 684,853 total impressions, which seems awfully low for what a campaign like this would cost. …
Porsche Pinterest Fail
07 March on Experience, Marketing, Pinterest, SoMoLoPorsche launched a new website teasing about their new vehicle the “Macan”. Toted proudly under the intro video is the Pinterest icon. How exciting! A major company like Porsche that produces visually stimulated vehicles has embraced the newest of the …
Customer Service and Social Media
29 October on Customers, Experience, SoMoLo, VideoMost brands who are using Social Media for Customer Service are missing the point. It’s take more than pointed a user to email you… Offer real solutions!
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I love beer, funky socks and strategy. A true geek and marketeer at heart. I work by the philosophy "marketing is a part of everything." The idea marketing is part of every process in business. 
Merlin U Ward is an passionate marketeer and strategist. As a serial entrepreneur he has built multiple companies in a variety of industries including tourism, nightlife, video, business networking and marketing.
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