This week Facebook confirmed they are going to start auto-playing ads. This always is a controversial topic. A lot of general public do not like auto-play, myself included. I think if you do them you have to do it right. By doing it right I would suggest; Don’t use Cell Data only do Wi-Fi Make […]
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Instagram Direct – Released today
Instagram is one of my favorite social networks. If you are on my Instagram I don’t post as much as I should. I try to have it so that I only post when I have something fun to share. Maybe I need to do a challenge to do one picture a day…
New Facebook Reply/Threaded Comments
Yesterday Facebook announced that they were rolling out replying and threaded comments on pages. They have been testing this for a while and now are starting to release it to the public. As of today only pages 10,000 and above have the option to turn it on. Facebook says it will automatically be turned on […]
ME0033 – Google Plus One Year Later
Timothy Goleman is joined by Eric Ungs (@ericungs). Where we talk about the a year with Google Plus. WE weigh in on how Goole has done this past year. We also add some of our wishes for Google+. http://marketingelementsblog.com tim@timgoleman.com @timgoleman http://www.marketingelementsblog.com/audio/me0033.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
GM Giving Up Facebook Ads
Today GM announced they were discontinuing Facebook Ads. This is not too big a deal to me, where as the press seems to make it seems that GM is leaving Facebook all together. VentureBeat is reporting that GM currently spends $40 million on on Facebook. One-fourth of this is ads the rest is content and […]
Google Plus Gets Share Button, but is it too late?
Google+ has been a topic for me here over the last few months. I do like the layout and design, especially after the redesign. It is cleaner and easier to find posts. Big hopes were what I had for the social network, but they haven’t been realized yet. The function that is the main draw […]
It’s a Big Headache…Excedrin
I currently have a headache, and it’s not one that Excedrin can solve. It is one that actually Excedrin created. If you are not familiar with the situation there was a mix up at the Excedrin plant and prescription pain killers were mixed in the nonprescription pain killer. This intern caused a voluntary recall of […]
ME0033 – Social Analytics – Facebook
Marketing Elements Episdoe 33 – Social Analytics – Facebook from Tim Goleman on Vimeo. This is the second part in my analytics posts. The first was an overview of what analytics there are in social. This specifically deals with reporting Facebook Insights. The spread sheet, as given by Chuck Hemann at the Social Media Conference […]
ME0032 – Facebook, Google Plus and Muppets
I am joined by by Eric Ungs and Reid Travis. Both from Cedar Rapids, IA, and members of the 380 Social podcast. The last time we spoke we had just seen the release of Google+ and now we have the full release and pages. We go over what we think of the service. Then, we […]
Why I like Google+
I know many out there aren’t fans of Google+ and many of our social media folks have written it off. First, let me say I feel that Google did botch the launch of +. They should have run a smaller beta and then had pages and everything ready to launch. With that said, I am […]