Tag Archives: social media

Digital Marketing Trends for 2016

The world of digital marketing is always evolving. This infographic highlights everything you need to stay in the know through the second half of 2016! Contact DAC today to find out more!

Being Human: Lessons from Social Media Strategies Summit

It was somewhere between the Dungeons & Dragons analogies, the Mike Myers Shrek impressions, and the musical question period that I realized it: This was no typical social media conference. Social Media Strategies Summit, held last week in San Francisco, brought together a couple hundred industry professionals from some of the top brands, agencies and media, and […]

Moms and Digital Media

I had my second child back in February, and constantly marvel at how my parenting perspective has changed in the years since my first baby was born.  New parent jitters have been replaced with a calm(er) confidence, new gadgets have made things simpler, and some previously important things have simply fallen by the wayside now […]

Online Reviews – The Good, the Bad and the Fakes

When given choices about where to spend money, consumers want the best. Internet Yellow Pages sites, Google Places listings and social networks offer consumers convenient channels for unbiased ratings and reviews from other customers. Good reviews can do wonders for your business, but just one negative review could create enough doubt in a consumer’s mind that […]

Coca-Cola: Why Social is More Than Just Buzz

A senior marketing executive at Coca-Cola sent the digital marketing world reeling when he told a conference audience that he sees no link between social media marketing and sales. Well, no, actually, he didn’t. What Eric Schmidt, senior manager of marketing strategy and insights at Coca-Cola, actually said was this: “But when Coca-Cola put buzz […]

Dx3 Canada Spotlight Part 1: The Great Debates

Note: This is the first of two posts about Dx3 Canada 2013, which took place on March 6th and 7th in Toronto. This year’s Dx3 Canada conference featured a lot of great questions. It was a conference about where things are going, about challenging conventional thinking and looking ahead. But it was also about debating […]

How to Avoid Dead Social Media Syndrome

A quirky little news item today caught my eye: A newly-announced Twitter app called LivesOn will allow people to keep tweeting after they die. It promises to scan the content of your Twitter feed, and to continue posting links and status updates that fit the algorithm. If this strikes you as more than a little […]

Could the Facebook “want” button be the answer to ad revenue questions?

Even before Facebook’s IPO stumbled its way onto the scene, pundits have been making a bit of a sport out of predicting the social behemoth’s demise. The general themes center around why Facebook won’t be around in ten years – a topic we’ve written about before on this blog. The IPO just intensified those sentiments, […]

5 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools You Should Be Using in 2012

I am going to start by assuming that social media is already a key part of your marketing strategy (if it’s not, please watch the video below, and take a giant leap into the present). Now, for those of you who are active in social media, I’m sure many of you will attest, implementing social media […]

Going Mobile: Smartphone Trends Affecting Your Business

If your business is looking to maximize leads, then it is time to start thinking about how consumers are searching for your business. You should ask yourself “Can our customers easily access our company’s content and contact information from a smartphone?” If not, you could be missing out on potential sales. In the past, it […]