H&R Block Social Media Programs Success
June 9th, 2008
Who would ever think that a financial services company would be innovative about marketing? Paula Drum is vice president of marketing for H&R Block. In this podcast, she explains how programs using Twitter, Second Life and other onlines venues have had impressive success. As Drum tells Jennifer Jones, one of their great surprises was how much human capital they had to spend to make the programs work. She advises all marketers to truly understand just how much personnel commitment it takes to implement such extensive programs.
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Thanks for sharing this podcast. This was a very interesting perspective on the resources that social media marketing requires.
It’s that kind of thinking outside of the box that makes a company standout, and thus succeed in the long run.