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Reputation Management – How do you Control the Noise?

I spoke at SphinnCon Israel on Sunday about Reputation Management – specifically on how to manage control the noise once the rumors are flying. I wanted to keep the subject focused (we only had 8 minutes to speak) so I didn’t mention one more important aspect – you can get positive noise out there to [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on March 10th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

One More Reason to Practice Pull Marketing

So many people, so many social networks. So much information. So much chaos.
Let people opt-in. They’ll thank you for it.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on March 4th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Will Social Media Bring the Return of the “Company Man” (or Woman)?

Now that social media is a regular tool in the marketing arsenal, bringing customer relations to the forefront (where it belongs IMHO) there’s the issue of: How human do companies want to appear? That is, do they tweet from a corporate account where the tweeter has no name or do they add a face to [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on February 28th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  2 Comments

This Blew My Mind

It’s a lecture from the head of Marketing of some resorts in Vail. Worth a watch.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1370868150/bctid52412902001

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on February 7th, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

The Oreo of Business – Strategy and Tactics

Yesterday Olivier Amar and Branko Rihtman came over with their families for a fun day of food and kid mayhem. This in itself is not worth a blog post – but during the day Branko mentioned the post Twitter Is Not a Social Media Strategy by Sarah Goodwin. Apparently he liked this post so much he [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on January 31st, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  2 Comments

Using Social Media for Competitive Advantage

I gave this presentation yesterday at the Schulich MBA Program in India, Schulich School of Business, York University, Mumbai Campus
Using Social Media For Competitive Advantage

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Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on January 21st, 2010 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Follow-Through OR How to Approach a Potential Client on a Social Media Network

As you know from my previous post where I go on and on about my love of BlueHost (kidding) – I’m now searching for a new hosting service for my various blogs (basically this site and Tchochkes) Some people who were obviously paid by other hosting services started to message me advertisements for hosts on [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on January 14th, 2010 under Uncategorized Tags: , ,  •  No Comments

Being Nice Is Free – And Your Customers Will Appreciate It

Bluehost saw a woman lying in pain and kicked her a few times just because she’s down and it can. Honestly, I’m still in a state of shock over how bad Bluehost customer service truly was. This post is the explanation of why Bluehost has lost me as a customer. How Bluehost’s actions resulted in [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on January 7th, 2010 under Uncategorized Tags: ,  •  1 Comment

Social Media Marketing – Listening to the Voice of the People

Yesterday I wrote a post: Social Media Marketing – You Can’t Stop Once You’ve Started and I sent it to Chris Brogan via Twitter, who read it and came up with another, very interesting, question of his own.
“I have a different question: this is going on with or without company involvement. Is your company ready [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on December 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  No Comments

Social Media Marketing – You Can’t Stop Once You’ve Started

I just finished reading Kfir Pravda’s article “What Companies are Missing in Social Media Marketing” and I agree with all of it – I also have something I’d like to add.
Social media opens up a door. A door that isn’t so easy to close once it’s been open. It means a company is willing to [...]

Posted by Shira Abel Shvo on December 27th, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  5 Comments