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…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) One of the most common social media tips is: “Never spam. Don’t send advertising messages, don’t send sales emails, …” If you ask me, this is bad advice. Here is why: Marketing always consisted and will always consist in a large part of what we today like to call spam. Getting messages out to people that…
Cross promotion should be part of any social media strategy – from setting up your first account and getting your first few followers, to setting up multiple accounts on various social networks, the concept of cross promoting your social identity has the power to grow your social media a lot faster than without it. Cross promotion should be part of…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) When we started out as entrepreneurs with a vision and an idea, to say the least, we were naive. We believed that PR would be a good idea to help with making our new startup know to a larger audience. It could have worked… Like so many other founders we loved our idea, and we firmly…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) I am active on Social Media – ok I am very active. Obviously, that puts me on the radar of many people who want to sell things, even the consultants who want to sell me social media advice. I get sales pitches by social media consultants all the time. And to say the least, there has not…
By Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) Content creation is at the heart of any successful social media strategy. But there is one thing that will make all the difference between you and all the others out there. And that is the passion you put into your content creation. Passion is what made blogging and bloggers become more successful than established newspapers. Passion…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) Update: Shortly after writing this article, the first tool mentioned here (Sendible) started failing us. After a month of back and forth with their support we cancelled all our accounts there! A while later Sendible’s CEO got in touch with us, appologized and offered us a couple of months free account to try it again. We…
by Susanna Gebauer (@dreckbaerfrau) Truth be told: I do not even know, what they teach in „Marketing“ at university… Honestly, I am a mathematician turned strategic consultant turned founder/entrepreneur turned marketer. Everything I know about online marketing and social media I learned by doing: By reading blog posts, trying things out, evaluating results, stepping back, thinking again … and learning…
by Jonathan Gebauer (@jogebauer) If you read my recent article about social media strategy or Susanna’s recent article on how to grow followers, then you know that we (like anybody else successful on Twitter) rely heavily on the Follow-Unfollow-Strategy. Basically, this strategy means you follow people and then unfollow those who didn’t follow back after a while. I won’t go…