Social media marketing: all you need is love (I mean voices, ears and stories)

Socialmediamarketingpeople If you don’t have the channels to allow people to connect with you, they will not communicate.

If you don’t look at what people are doing online, listen to what they say, talk to them and touch them, you will not be able to read their digital footprints, smell the digital signals they send out and ultimately go beyond simple social media connections to build valuable relationships and communities.

In social media marketing you need to have an integrated marketing approach, using all your channels and social media ‘voices’ and of course you also need to listen.

Besides those omni-channel, multi-channel or cross-channel marketing ‘voices’ and ‘ears’ you need stories.

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HauteLook chooses StrongMail to reach fashionistas fast and viral

It’s been a while, since I had time to do some industry news. After the longer posts of the last weeks, here is a first shorter one.

Online private sale site HauteLook has selected StrongMail to take care of its email marketing requirements. These include deliverability (getting out two million emails in less than five minutes), providing a higher level of personalization, and, I quote from the press release “driving incremental top-line revenue”.

The news obviously also interested me since there is a social media component.

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