Retail Marketing - Shopping Center Marketing

If you’re anything like me, you YouTube Old Spice commercials with your friends and family, or anytime you need an honest laugh in the middle of the day. Now, however, we’re not the only ones laughing. The Old Spice Body Wash Social Marketing department is laughing too… all the way to the bank.
Neilsen reported that [...]

Come August 1, you will no longer have the option of paying real money for fake gifts to post on someone’s virtual “Wall” on Facebook. It sounds crazy, but I can’t help but think, “who in their right mind would spend their hard earned dollar for something so… not real?” Turns out that a number [...]

It’s true that each person has a “morning routine” of sorts, and that routine is as unique as the individual, but lately, certain technologies have made their way into many of those routines.
Personally, my own routine starts by hitting snooze on my iPhone, 3 or 4 times each day. Then, once my eyes can focus, [...]

Like any conversation, a large part of talking is… listening.
This is also important when thinking through your Social Media strategy. “Who’s saying what” about your brand is equally important to sharing deals, events and random things you may think are relevant to your audience.
Measurable feedback has been a concept since the development of the telephone. [...]

TypePad recently released a short study conducted on their site to see what adding the Facebook “Like” button would produce. The test resulted in an increase in site traffic of 50% in 3 weeks.
“When we introduced Facebook Like for the blog sidebar, allowing any reader from Facebook to “Like” your blog and receive post updates directly [...]

Summertime typically means that the “kids” are out and about and ready to unwind. They have more time to spend on the computer, more time to sit in front of the TV, more time to hang out with friends and, of course, more time to go to the mall or just hang out with their [...]

Do you want to get a better handle of the value of your Brand’s Facebook page? Are you trying to determine the perfect Social Media package, but you just aren’t sure how to monetize the value of your Brand’s page? Today, a social media management company released a free tool called the Social Page Evaluator.
It’s really simple; [...]

If you are a Facebook user, Administrator, or casual viewer, it’s likely that you’ve seen FarmVille on someone’s “wall” or have been overwhelmed by notifications that someone “threw a vegetable” at someone else, in your status feed . You may not know what FarmVille actually is or why people are playing it, but while you [...]

More than 200 million users sign into Facebook everyday. Until now, people who’ve liked a company, brand, band or celebrity have “Become a Fan” of their pages to show their support, hear news and informative updates as well as interact with photos. A company or brand can even allow their consumers, or “Fans” to receive special [...]

You run the marketing department for a shopping center and are thinking about booking someone like Justin Beiber to perform 3 songs, and sign autographs for 30 minutes in your plaza, because your niece loves him and asked if she could meet him.
The dilemma? How are you going to tell the world that Justin Beiber [...]