Interview With Jamie Guse of American Dairy Queen Corporation

Dairy Queen, an iconic American brand that will be celebrating its 70th birthday this year, is no stranger to social media. Dairy Queen like most major corporations utilizes social media to connect with its global customer base. The man responsible for maintaining all of Dairy Queens digital assets, including social media, is Jamie Guse. Jamie [...]

Social Media Toolkit

The barrier for getting started with social media is low, it’s dependent on your involvement level, objectives and goals. The facilitators of the message, our tools, are the key components that make it all work. They are the tools in our digital toolkit that every strategist, marketer and PR professional should already be learning and [...]

Social Media Marketing: Empower the Crowd!

Internet marketing primarily consists of a few categories in various stages of consumer engagement. Search engine marketing, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, banner/text ad marketing, email marketing and please use whatever buzz word you want for the sixth category, new media marketing/Web 2.0 marketing/, okay I’ll say it, social media marketing, and there’s probably another stage or two [...]

How Restaurants Can Use Social Media

Various trades and industries are using social media for marketing, creating brand awareness, reputation monitoring  and consumer engagement. The restaurant industry is no different. By definition restaurants are very social offline, but what about online?  This got me thinking about how restaurants can utilize social media platforms for marketing, brand monitoring and beyond. In talking with a [...]

Social Media Case Study: Dairy Queen

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It’s no surprise that in this digital age corporations are actively engaging their customer base through social media. I can list hundreds of companies who successfully quote on quote “get it“. I thought I would focus on one, Dairy Queen.

Dairy Queen, for those of you who are not familiar with the brand, is an ice cream [...]

Getting Started In Social Media

This is a quick slideshow with some pointers and guidelines for getting started in social media. It’s a trimmed down Google presentation of a post I wrote last month titled, 40 key elements to getting started in social media. I will be focusing a lot more on slideshow presentations, this is my first one, so [...]

(Weekly Recap) – Twitter Tools, SEO and FriendFeed.

Louis Gray handed me the keys to his blog last week, so I have been having a little fun over there lately.
This is the weekly recap of posts I have written . Please visit the hyperlinks to read the posts in their full entirety.

SEO is still relevant, I touch on 15 tips for improving search [...]

State of the blog – By a Z lister

I have been traversing on the Internet for a little over a decade now. Throughout the years I have had a number of personal blogs on various blogging platforms that have come and gone. I have never taken any of these blogs seriously, nor have I updated with any frequency, because it was just that, [...]