Posted in community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, consumer generated content, consumer perception, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer relationship management, donor engagement, follower, fundraising, imitation, leader, marketing, marketing budget, marketing innovation, network, non profit, nonprofit, social branding, social marketing, social media, social media hub, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation on Jan 7th, 2010
In social networks, the number of followers that you have is inversely proportional to the depth of relationship that you have with each member. Or more simply, reach is inversely proportional to bond — as reach increases (you get more followers), bond decreases (you have less of a relationship with each follower). This isn’t news, [...]
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Posted in branding, community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, customer engagement, customer interaction, donor, donor engagement, fundraising, leader, marketing, marketing budget, marketing innovation, network, non profit, nonprofit, social branding, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, Uncategorized, web on Nov 17th, 2009
When was the last time you looked around your organization as if you were new? Or better yet, brought in someone new to look around and tell you what they saw? You might be very surprised by the result. You may even find a missed opportunity to blow your own horn. I got to participate [...]
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Posted in 1:1 Marketing, banking, branding, community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, consumer generated content, consumer perception, CRM, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer relationship management, donor, donor engagement, financial services, follower, fundraising, hub, hub and spoke, hubs, individualized marketing, investment, leader, lifecycle, marketing, marketing innovation, network, non profit, nonprofit, one to one marketing, personalized marketing, pool, pools, social branding, social marketing, social media, social media hub, social network, spoke, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation, tribes, twitter, web on Apr 29th, 2009
My first acting role was playing Walter Winchell in a 4th grade musical. I had no idea who Walter Winchell was — I was a 4th grader in the 1960s and Winchell was a radio gossip reporter during the 1930s – 50s. Even though my dad was a newspaper columnist and tried to explain it [...]
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Posted in 1:1 Marketing, branding, community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, consumer generated content, consumer perception, CRM, customer engagement, customer interaction, customer relationship management, donor, donor engagement, follower, fundraising, hub, hub and spoke, hubs, imitation, individualized marketing, kansas city, lifecycle, marketing, marketing innovation, network, non profit, nonprofit, one to one marketing, personalized marketing, pool, pools, social branding, social marketing, social media, social media hub, social network, spoke, spur communications, transformation, tribes, twitter, web on Apr 28th, 2009
Did you ever build a tree house? How about a fort, or a clubhouse? You know what I’m talking about. As children we’d gang together on a mission to build a place of our own a refuge, a place where we made the rules. It was something we’d cobble together from scraps of wood and [...]
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