by Minter Dial | Jul 17, 2018 | Branding, Marketing
From everything I hear and read, it’s fair to say that brand marketing teams — at least at major consumer-facing companies — have all now established some kind of influencer marketing strategy. With influencer marketing platforms becoming more...
by Minter Dial | Apr 14, 2016 | Retail
I am not here to write yet another apologia about the state of the telecommunications market. Nor am I going to write another blog post praising Apple’s retail stores. I wanted to point out some of the treacherous pitfalls that organizations fall into when...
by Minter Dial | Apr 2, 2013 | Social Media
If you want to get your message out, there is nothing like good word of mouth. But, when the recommendation is out of the mouth of an influencer, that’s word of mouth on steroids. {Click to Tweet!} So how, as a brand marketer, can you...
by Minter Dial | Oct 10, 2012 | Social Media
If your boss comes to you and says, “Hey, why don’t we make a viral video?” you might want to consider running for the woods. As a brand, the chances of successfully making a video that goes viral is rather small and the odds can get much worse...
by Minter Dial | Feb 22, 2010 | Social Media
After a power meeting with Justin Kirby, founder of Yooster (a word-of-mouth opinion poll) and author of Connected Marketing, I thought it worthwhile to comment on two of Justin’s key mantras: 1/ “Social media is a misnomer.” Social media...