Tag Archives: Consumers

How your brand wins over empowered customers to profit from social commerce

May 16, 2012 Comments


I recently had the pleasure of speaking at there First Data ‘Engaging Today’s Empowered Customer’ Summit in New Orleans where we discussed in detail the shifts that financial institutions, credit card associations, and merchants across all industries must make in …

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Why timing means everything to the success of your brand

March 15, 2012 Comments


In this age of real-time social and customer engagement I wanted to share two charts that dramatically demonstrate how important timing is to the success of your brand from both a macro and micro perspective. The first is a chart …

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2012 Prediction: The Year of Customer Activism

December 29, 2011 Comments


2011 has been distinguished by dramatic citizen activism in the United States and around the world. Perhaps largest in public consciousness are the Arab Spring revolutions that continue to transform the political landscape in the Middle East, and the homegrown …

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What Corporate America must learn from #OccupyWallStreet to succeed in 2012

December 20, 2011 Comments


Over the last several months we have witnessed the rise of the #OccupyWallStreet movement, both across America and around the world, and witnessed its tour of a familiar news cycle. At first, it was dismissed out of hand as a …

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Twitter just redesigned how brands and customers relate. Now it’s your turn.

December 14, 2011 Comments


Twitter is in the process of rolling out yet another complete redesign, and this one is not only Twitter is rolling out a redesign that not only simplifies the user experience but also presents important new ways for brands to …

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Doing well by doing good by the numbers

November 14, 2011 Comments


Making the business case for doing good is absolutely critical to meaningful shift in corporate behavior to address our current economic crises and build a better world. fortunately that is easier than ever thanks to great new research and resources being …

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BrandKarma: How customers rate and reward socially responsible brands

October 31, 2011 Comments


Today I wanted to write about the relaunch of BrandKarma, which I have mentioned before as one of the examples of platforms that empower customers to be mindful consumers, and therefore help to create a private sector that also functions …

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Review: Brian Solis, ‘The End of Business as Usual’

October 26, 2011 Comments


I had a chance to dive into Brian Solis’ new book, The End of Business As Usual this weekend. What Brian does so well is take the competing trends that are changing the marketplace, as well their impact on consumer sentiment and …

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