Social Media Is ALWAYS About Sales
You may use social media to increase brand awareness, build a loyal community or manage customer service, but make no mistake: you are always selling. Every tweet you send is a pitch. Every Facebook status update is an advertisement. Every YouTube video is a commercial….
Three Ways to Tell if Your Social Media Agency Is Lying
Here’s a dirty little secret: you don’t need a degree, a portfolio or any experience to make a living at social media. All you really need is a website. (And, if you’re really fancy, a blog.) Because the barrier to entry for this emerging field…
Creative Concepts Shares 11 Ways We Help Our Clients Stand Out on Twitter
If you think writing novels (or blog posts) is hard, try tweeting for a living. In most forms of communication, the audience invites you to spin your story and enchant them over time. Even a 30 second TV commercial gives you half a minute to…
Why Your New Media Strategy Can’t Survive Without Old Media
If anyone can publish a blog, create a video or launch a meme, you’d think that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube would be the empires of the new, with the latest self-made stars forever in control of the cultural conversation. And you’d be wrong. A recent…
How the Fashion Industry Is Embracing Social Media
As an industry that’s built entirely upon the exchange of opinions, the fashion world may seem like a field where social media would naturally take flight. After all, aren’t terms like “word of mouth” and “viral buzz” the same keywords that signify success on both…
How New York Fashion Week Can Help YOU Connect with New Audiences
Ouidad, backstage with the curly models of NYC Fashion Week 2011 When your brand is well-known in your field, you have a story worth telling. But how do you find new audiences to share that story with? You find something everyone has in common. For…
Barbie and Ken: Even Their Stale Social Media Feels Like Plastic
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the very first Ken doll, Mattel — the creators of Barbie, Ken and their vast plastic empire — launched a social media campaign to help Ken woo Barbie back. If you didn’t know, the iconic couple broke up a…
The Return of Experts?
Like all things in life, trust is cyclical. Last year, in the shadow of the recession, public trust was amazingly (but predictably) low. But now, according to the results of the annual Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in “people like us” is plummeting while trust in…
Getting Ahead on Your Social Media Spring Cleaning
Here at Creative Concepts, we regularly re-evaluate our social media strategies based on what our metrics tell us is (and isn’t) working. You probably do, too. And yet, if you’re anything like us, while you’re busy tackling the big picture and the day-to-day details, certain…
How Creative Concepts Helped Bigelow Tea Find 10,000 Active Facebook Fans!
What’s better than a lot of fans? A lot of active fans. When it comes to social media, a small-yet-active audience is often more valuable to a business than a large-yet-passive audience. Why? Because the incoming feedback, suggestions, color commentary and positive word of mouth…