by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) Recently I sat in a talk given by a VC employee comparing the availability and performance of Venture Capital in Berlin to London and the Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley, of course, took the lead by far, he came to the conclusion that Berlin and London were roughly the same in ranking. The bigger US Funds…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) I am sure, some of my readers will already have the response on their tongue: “Social Media is not about selling” – but that is less than half the truth. Most of us marketers (and not only us) would not even be in social media (or maybe only to chat with friends) without the possibility to…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) Measuring is key to marketing success. It is the fine art of marketing. Without measuring what you are getting out of what you are doing, you are flying blind. Numbers are not only for bragging; they are the proof that what you are doing is taking you where you want to go (or that you are…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) Very often I make assumptions: This product is of interest to that audience This message will convert This message will lead to sharing This action will lead to this reaction … More often then not these can be tested before being implemented in a wider context. The importance of testing marketing assumptions Yesterday I published a…
Have you heard of “Lean Startup” or “Lean Innovation”? Well, then it is time to adapt the concept to lean marketing. And a new generation of marketers is already doing it, changing the landscape of marketing forever. Lowering the costs and generating results that old school marketers can only dream about. You can be one of them! What Is the…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) What makes some blogs/bloggers successful while others are passing by fairly unnoticed? Of course, the first and very important reason is the quality of the content, but there is more to the success of a blog than the content published. I am absolutely sure, there are thousands of blogs out there that I would love to…
We are living in a world where literally everyone is a marketer. Everyone is marketing something – even if it is just himself. And one of the most accessible ways to market yourself is a blog. I really believe that everyone should write and publish. But still many people don’t. So why should you start now? Because the content you…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) There is no doubt: In social media the real success comes with interaction, communication and connecting. But sometimes when I look at some comments tweets or posts, I think the author should have kept quiet. Or in other words, the key to good interaction can sometimes be not to interact. Let me tell you about two…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) (Disclaimer: The following represents my personal view of SEO and the monopoly in the search engine market.) There is a reason this blog and this site are called “The Social Marketers” and not “The Online Marketers”: We love social media marketing. We’re not very keen on SEO and SEM. Why? Anything related to Search Engines makes…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) There are numerous articles about how to target your ads, but seemingly no one is talking about targeting followers on social media. Yes, I admit, sometimes (as with Facebook ads for Fanpages) both are the same. But there are other ways to target than via paid ads, and often they make the difference between an acceptable…