Posts in the category of "Marketing Voices"

Las Vegas Casinos Using Marketing Partnerships and Social Media To Build Attendance

Las Vegas Casinos Using Marketing Partnerships and Social Media To Build Attendance

Jake Kahle, principal of Something Gaming Partners (Twitter.com/JakeKahle and phone: 702-481-6954) is working marketing partnerships and leveraging social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to help many Las Vegas casinos. These casinos live and die off their databases which capture the customers contact information says Kahle, and then his firm helps drive more customers to [See the full post…]

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Guy Kawasaki On Twitter Strategies For Building A Huge Following

Guy Kawasaki On Twitter Strategies For Building A Huge Following

The legendary Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author and Twitter aficionado talks about the strategies he uses for gaining incredible numbers of people following him on twitter. More than 180,000 people are reading his tweets as of October 2009. He talks about how there is no correct or incorrect way to use Twitter despite the [See the full post…]

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Jeremiah Owyang’s 3 Top Tips for Marketers Today

Jeremiah Owyang’s 3 Top Tips for Marketers Today

Forrester Social Marketing Expert Jeremiah Owyang believes that the future of the social web is entering the era of social colonization. Given these insights, Jeremiah offered his perspective on the best strategies marketers have to implement to be successful.

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Using Social Media in Recruiting: Insights From Hollister

Using Social Media in Recruiting: Insights From Hollister

Recruiting is an industry that needs more edgy marketing. Having worked with some recruiters over the years, I was curious to learn from Hollister about social media techniques they have employed. Meg Toland of Hollister and I spoke about new ideas they are using including Twitter, Facebook and other tools.

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Bloggers Embark: USS Nimitz Plans To Receive 16 Podcasters, Bloggers and Others

Bloggers Embark: USS Nimitz Plans To Receive 16 Podcasters, Bloggers and Others

On May 29th, 2009 a group of bloggers including Guy Kawasaki, Robert Scoble, Charlene Li, and Jennifer Jones will be flying via a navy plane to the USS Nimitz. The ship holds 5,000 people and will be out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The Bloggers will join the crew and captain for 20 [See the full post…]

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Channels.com: Video Syndication Tools for the Web

Channels.com: Video Syndication Tools for the Web

Web video publishers need to build communities of subscribers and video is becoming the preferred means for visual communications. Channels.com just announced a series of enhancements that make it easier than ever for people to subscribe to video feeds and video podcasts. Marketing Voices talked to Sean Doherty, President and CEO of Channels.com about their [See the full post…]

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Venture Investing Today: What’s Working and What’s Not: Pascal Levensohn, Founder LEVP

Venture Investing Today: What’s Working and What’s Not: Pascal Levensohn, Founder LEVP

As an investor in early stage companies, Pascal Levensohn, founder LEVP, is looking hard at doing new deals today in spite of the recession. Levensohn tells Marketing Voices what an entrepreneur needs to do to get a VC’s attention.

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Scout Labs Introduces New “Listening” Product: Affordable for Small Businesses

Scout Labs Introduces New “Listening” Product: Affordable for Small Businesses

For $250 month for monitoring 25 communications, Scout Labs now has a SAAS product for anyone who wants to listen to their brand online. Marketing Voices spoke to Jenny Zeszut, CEO of Scout Labs to hear how customers like Stub Hub and Netflix are helping their brand positions. The product analyzes text and language, and [See the full post…]

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Perspectives From Guy Kawasaki: On Twitter, His Book: Reality Check And Life

Perspectives From Guy Kawasaki: On Twitter, His Book: Reality Check And Life

Guy Kawasaki is one of the most well known marketers in the world. His new book Reality Check is making its way to the best seller list. Marketing Voices host Jennifer Jones caught him at his home and discussed the new book and Guy’s favorite chapter on entrepreneur’s lies. Jones and Kawasaki also get into [See the full post…]

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Recession Marketing: Virtual Events Leverage Smaller Budgets

Recession Marketing: Virtual Events Leverage Smaller Budgets

In these tough economic times, marketer’s budgets are getting slashed and the situation requires innovative thinking to leverage small dollars. Virtual events are now part of the marketing mix and a good means of creating marketing dollar leverage. Jennifer Jones spoke to Brent Arslaner of Unisfair, a virtual events company for marketing and recruiting purposes [See the full post…]

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