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Branding: How It Works in the Social Media Age [INFOGRAPHIC]

Mashable 

Branding and social media — they seem to go together so well, yet they’re both widely misunderstood. While social media can serve as a gigantic megaphone for your brand, social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter can also give a company a golden opportunity to shoot itself in the figurative foot. It’s time to shed some light on branding and social media, and to do that, AYTM Market Research surveyed 2,000 Internet users, randomly chosen from its huge built-in online panel.

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More B2B Marketers Embrace Social Media Efforts – Benefits include lead generation, awareness-building and thought leadership

eMarketer 

More business-to-business companies are using social media as part of their marketing mix. Some have found that sites for professional networking, like LinkedIn, are an effective way to generate leads, while more casual social media mainstays, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are helping B2B firms reach customers in new ways.

“Leveraging social media for branding and awareness-building can help humanize B2B companies, establish them as thought leaders, and offer new touchpoints for connecting with customers and prospects,” said Kimberly Maul, eMarketer writer/analyst and author of the new report, “B2B Social Media: A Growing Focus for Marketers.”

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Counterpoint: CPM Shouldn’t Go Anywhere

Digiday

Advertising has only one objective: to achieve real business goals more effectively than would be achieved without it. These goals can be branding, sales, pricing power, or some other key performance indicators.

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Do Marketers Feel Isolated from Industry Trends? Marketers report trends like social media affect ‘the industry,’ but not their own organizations

eMarketer

It’s no secret that the marketing world is changing. With digital channels reaching ever more consumers, more online ad and marketing formats being created to help reach them, and more measurability offered to marketers to justify the budgets they are devoting to new tactics, practitioners must stay abreast of a steady stream of new trends.

Research from branding firm Mechanica and Fast Company found that, while many marketing decision-makers see these trends affecting the broader industry, not so many think their own organizations are feeling the same impact. Most starkly, 70% agreed that the rise of social media mattered for the industry, but just 49% said it had influenced their own companies.

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Why the “Power of Branding” Is a Myth

Inc

Brand is important. No question of that. A strong brand can make it enormously easier to sell.  However, the notion that “branding” can create a great brand is a myth.  Worse, it’s a myth that can cost you a lot of money, without getting much in return.

By “branding”, I mean the panoply of marketing activities like brand-focused advertising, packaging, marketing materials, logos, taglines, and so forth. In almost every case, money spent on these activities is money wasted.

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Dynamic New Model Needed To Optimize Ad Role In Social Media

MediaPost

According to new Booz & Company research, “Campaigns to Capabilities: Social Media and Marketing 2011,” as social media plays an expanding role in advertising and branding efforts, 94% of respondents regard Facebook as one of their top 3 social media platform priorities. 77% view Twitter as one of their top 3 social media platform priorities; 42% say YouTube is one of their top 3 social media platform priorities.

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Brands in social “disconnect”

Warc

NEW YORK: A large majority of brand owners are suffering from a profound “disconnect” between their aspirations and actual performance on social media, a new study has found.

Weber Shandwick, the PR firm, and Forbes Insights, a unit of the business publisher,polled 1,897 senior executives representing high-revenue companies, with their panel based in 50 countries worldwide.

In all, participants believed social channels were responsible for shaping 52% of brand reputation at present, up from 44% last year.

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Facebook Delivers Ads

MediaPost

According to a comScore overview of the U.S. online display advertising market for Q1 2011, based on data from comScore Ad Metrix, nearly 1.11 trillion display ads were delivered to U.S. Internet users during the quarter. Facebook accounted for 346 billion impressions, nearly double the number it delivered in Q1 2010, and accounting for nearly one third of all display ad impressions delivered.

Jeff Hackett, comScore executive vice president, says “… the U.S. online display advertising market maintains its strong momentum… more than one trillion display ads delivered every single quarter and nearly 300 individual advertisers spending at least $1 million a quarter on display… (and) continued investment in compelling, high-quality creative… helps cultivate long-term brand equity… “ Read more

Digitas debuts b2b division

BtoB

Clients’ desire to pursue aggressive digital strategies spurs new structure

In late March, global integrated brand agency Digitas, part of Publicis Groupe, announced the debut of a dedicated b2b marketing practice. Dennis Reilly, previously senior VP-marketing for the agency, serves as director of Digitas Business, working with clients such as Aflac, ConocoPhillips and Comcast B2B.

Reilly joined the agency in 1995 and for more than a decade has helped clients pioneer b2b CRM programs, digital sales enablement tools and peer networks. BtoB recently spoke to Reilly about Digitas Business and the latest trends in b2b advertising and marketing. Learn more

The CMO Site Launches CMO University

Chief marketing officers and other senior marketing executives can tune into a variety of marketing lectures on social media, branding, mobile marketing, and more

PR Newswire (U.S.), 4/27/11

The CMO Site is debuting CMO University, an online educational forum for chief marketing officers and other marketing executives that will combine Web-based lectures with live chat on a variety of marketing topics.
The first of seven CMO University lectures begins tomorrow, Thursday, April 28, at 2:00 p.m. ET, with marketing consultant Paul Gillin discussing why it’s no longer enough to play around on social media for benefits like brand lift or just to keep up with the competition. His lecture will last 45 minutes, followed by live chat with him and with fellow attendees.

Register here for Gillin’s lecture at CMO University:

http://www.thecmosite.com/lecture.asp?doc_id=205749&

Tomorrow’s discussion is the first of seven that will comprise the CMO University’s inaugural term, according to Mitch Wagner, Editor in Chief of The CMO Site. “Tom Nolle of CIMI Corp. will talk about ‘Making Old Media New’ on May 3, followed by Christine Perkett of PerkettPR discussing ways to burnish your brand and give it some new freshness on May 5,” Wagner says. “CMO University enrollees can earn points toward a diploma by attending lectures and participating in the live chats we’ll do with each of the seven lectures.”

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