Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Wildfire by Google - Enterprise-class social marketing











Remember the day your company created a handful of social accounts to “see how this social thing worked?” And when you realized you should also be creating custom content for each of your brands and regions? And how about when you moved beyond PTAT and +1’s and started talking leads and sales instead?





In less time than it took Psy to topple Justin Bieber, social marketing has transitioned from being managed by a “lone wolf” with little oversight, to becoming a core part of every marketing campaign. As we’ve seen, the opportunities to increase sales, extend your reach and be more relevant to your customers on social are enormous, but so is the complexity. The average enterprise brand has almost a dozen people working on their social media alone, and over 170 social properties (Altimeter). We have many clients managing large teams of globally distributed users across hundreds or even thousands of social properties. It can be overwhelming, inefficient and risky to build your brand on social without a technology platform that unites your social marketing across activities, teams and properties. That’s where we can help, with Wildfire Social Marketing for Enterprises.



Though you may best know us as one of the pioneers in Facebook social promotions, we've undergone a significant transformation since early 2011. We’ve been busy building an enterprise-class Social Marketing Suite that serves some of the largest brands in the world  -- 31 out of the top 50 global brands, to be precise. We’ve always built our product for the largest and most sophisticated marketers, and now as part of Google, we’re more agile, more secure, more scalable and more global than ever before.




The Wildfire Social Marketing Suite has all the integrated tools you need (Ads, Pages, Promotions, Analytics and Messages) to find new customers, build your brand and drive revenues on social. Underlying these tools are a set of governance, collaboration, reporting and support capabilities that we’ve specifically created for today’s social-ized global enterprise.



Governance and Compliance




  • Custom teams : A flexible and customizable role-based approach to creating custom work groups. Your users can be part of multiple teams, with different levels of access per team

  • Custom workflows : Automated approval processes so that the right people in your organization approve every post

  • Rules-based post moderation : Pre-defined rules automatically trigger an action (such as flagging, deletion or routing) when certain words are posted on your social properties by your consumers

  • Audit logs: Records all your users’ activities within your organization to track back unauthorized or compromising behavior









Collaboration and Efficiency




  • Batch uploader : Allows efficient collaboration on, and scheduling, of all upcoming messages in a shared spreadsheet, which can be uploaded at once for instant scheduling

  • Central messages calendar : A shared calendar for all your brand’s users and teams to see which messages are scheduled to be sent. View by social property and by originating team (i.e. the ACME brand team)

  • Keyword filtering and auto-routing : Scales your marketing and customer service teams by auto-routing incoming messages based on keywords. If someone’s crying for help, get them to customer service pronto. If someone’s making a product recommendation, get that to your development team without having to manually route it.









Custom Reporting




  • Role-specific editable reports : Enables customization of your reporting for any member of your organization - easily create high level aggregate reporting for your VP of Marketing, or let each of your social managers drill down to the details to see property or campaign level performance.













  • Strategic Advice



















  • Customized account strategy : We’ve worked with thousands of clients - more than any other vendor - and we put that experience to good use every day. We go beyond advising on individual campaigns (although we think we do that pretty well). We’ll work with your team on an ongoing basis to implement an organizational structure, messaging strategy and integrated marketing plan that supports your business goals.













Social marketing is serious business, but that doesn’t mean it can’t also be fun. With Wildfire’s technology and support, we’ll do the heavy lifting for your enterprise so you can focus on creating authentic connections with your customers, and providing real value for your brand. 






Download our white paper to find out more, or give us a call . We’d love to talk.


#CincodeMaya celebrates social media marketing all month long!


Great social media marketing never stops, and neither do all the learning and best practice tips you can pick up about it. This month, we’re embracing education with a little celebration...of Cinco de Mayo, with a Wildfire twist.





If you’re scratching your head about something social, we can help. Ask us your most perplexing questions, and every Friday in May our resident social marketing expert, Maya Grinberg, will post a new video answering one of the top five. Five Fridays. Five videos. Cinco de Maya!
















Submit your questions here, maybe yours will be one of the chosen inquiries that gets a follow up video next week!





We built this campaign using our Social Gallery template, which is designed to make it super simple to engage with fans and followers. You can use it to post videos and do Q&As with customers in real time.





Want to see more ways you can keep your social going strong all year round? Check out our 12 Months of Social for new ideas every month.

Wildfire explores the "New Normal" at iStrategy Miami conference


One of the best parts of being a social marketing technology provider and thought leader is hearing what’s on the mind of our customers, partners and other marketing professionals. Last week, we traveled to Miami, Florida for iStrategy’s latest Global Digital Marketing Conference, a gathering of more than 350 senior brand marketers to discuss the latest innovations in digital and social marketing technology and strategy.






During the conference, Wildfire spoke about how the digital-social revolution has delivered to us a “New Normal,” where technology has empowered consumers by giving them access to information. This phenomenon has fundamentally changed how brands drive value from marketing, and was frequently discussed throughout the conference.









The New Normal has been driven in large part by Generation C, an emerging class of consumers who demonstrate core behaviors that begin with the letter C: they are connected, and constantly curating and creating content. These consumers’ voices are more powerful than ever before; they decide who and what they trust -- and as a result, they are in control of the conversation around your brand.

 Brands that are successful in the New Normal use social and digital to create interactive experiences and transform their businesses. Here are three key concepts Wildfire presented at iStrategy to help you do that:













  1. Ditch the pitch. Connected consumers are savvy: because information is always at their fingertips, they don’t care if your brand is better, faster, cheaper or stronger. They aren’t interested in a sales pitch, they are interested in what is interesting to them: “I’ll be interested if you are interesting.”






  1. Pique Generation C’s interest by building a social strategy that shows your brand is listening to their needs, wants, expectations and preferences. Gen C is interested in brand experiences that they relate to, connect with and believe in. Your job, then, is to understand your audience’s passions, preferences and desires; then create experiences around your brand and mission that demonstrate these things.






  1. Execute your strategy with an orchestrated approach to reach connected consumers on multiple screens and multiple social networks. In today’s always-on, multi-screen world, people consume your content in many ways and from many devices. Whether it’s a retail store, website, YouTube Brand Channel, Pinterest page, or on a tablet, PC or smartphone, you must be where your consumers are. Your digital-social strategy should incorporate all channels and networks to engage your consumers wherever they are, on whatever screen they’re on.







Mike Nabasny, Wildfire’s Head of Midwest Sales, talks about engaging Generation C.





Procter & Gamble is an example of a brand that’s been wildly successful at applying these concepts and connecting with its portion of of the Gen C audience. About a year ago, P&G launched its “Thank You, Mom” campaign in conjunction with its sponsorship of the London Olympics.





The campaign included 35 P&G brands sponsoring 150 Olympic athletes, and the effort was tied around interactive content on YouTube, Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. It was one of the most ambitious integrated marketing campaigns to date.





In an interview with AdAge last summer, P&G’s Global Brand Building Officer, Mark Pritchard, estimated that the company would bring in $500 million in incremental revenue as a result of the “Thank You, Mom.” The campaign also deepened P&G’s connection with millions of social followers; it was so popular with Facebook fans, in fact, that it spawned its own Facebook page. “Thank You, Mom” continues to provide a significant source of social engagement for P&G’s brand.





How are you engaging consumers in the New Normal? Leave us a note about your strategy below. We love to hear from you!




The Wildfire Team

 

Friday, May 10, 2013

Magico shopping, magico sconto! + My weekend wishlist


SCONTI. Ciao a tutti, oggi inizia il week end, (non per me,sto ancora studiando) e come tutti voi ormai sapete mi piace iniziare il fine settimana scaricando tutta la tensione accumulata con del sano shopping online,e lo shopping si sa è più bello se per farlo abbiamo a disposizione degli sconti..
A tal proposito oggi vi presento magicosconto.it un sito dove potrete trovare codici sconto per tutte le categorie di shopping: moda,bellezza,elettronica viaggi e molto altro!
Utilizzare i coupon è facile,una volta sul sito selezionate il negozio on line dove farete acquisti e in seguito scegliete il coupon che più vi interessa, infine cliccate su mostra codice e incollate quest'ultimo nell'apposita sezione al momento del check out, et voilà il gioco è fatto!
Io ad esempio oggi ho puntato i codici sconto Zalando, li trovate qui e ho adocchiato anche una serie di pezzi interessanti che mi piacerebbe acquistare e che vi mostro qui di seguito...Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate e buono shopping con Magico sconto!!

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The list:
Dress Mint&berry 35
Pants 0039 Italy 130
Sandals A.McQueen 450
Bag Even&Odd 24
Top Mint&berry 25
Top Mint&berry 30

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Some New in

NEW STUFF.After showing you my wishlist of the week I thought to show you some of my recent new purchases made ​​mostly from Bershka and from Asos.
You already seen the shoes here, but the rest is unpublished even if I hope to wear some of these pieces
soon in the next outfits.
Soon there will be a lot of news, have a nice day!

NEW STUFF. Dopo avervi mostrato la mia lista dei desideri della settimana ho pensato di farvi vedere anche alcuni dei miei ultimi nuovi acquisti fatti per lo più da Bershka e da Asos...
Le scarpe le avete gia viste qui, il resto invece è inedito ma spero di indossare presto alcuni di questi pezzi nei prossimi  outfit.
Presto ci saranno tante novità, buona giornata!

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Ok la giacca è davvero stropicciata (non dovevo infilarla in lavatrice :S) ma vi assicuro che una volta stirata è davvero bella / Ok maybe the blazer is a little wrinkled (damn washing machine) but once ironed it's super duper cute!



Avevo davvero bisogno di un modo per organizzare i bijoux, questo lo trovo semplicemente perfetto..almeno fin quando non sarà pieno / I just needed a new jewelry holder and this from ASOS is really perfect!
 

Friday, May 3, 2013

My (weekend) wishlist vol 4

WEEKEND.Hello dear here we are at "the second weekend of the week" how doyou spend it? I will live two exciting dayswith the company of my books, exams again, and so as always in the study breaks I find myself  to wander in the various online shops...These are my wishes of the week,What are yours? 
I hope that yours will be a really good weekend

WEEKEND. Buongiorno cari,eccoci qua al "secondo weekend della settimana" come lo passerete? Io vivrò due entusiasmanti giornate  in compagnia dei miei libri, sono di nuovo sotto esame, e così nelle pause studio mi ritrovo come sempre a girovagare nei vari negozi on line...questi i miei desideri della settimana.Quali sono i vostri?
Spero che il vostro sia davvero un buon weekend

THE LIST
1.The bridge Shoulder bag  203
2.Cloé eau de parfum  56
3.Clarins Rouge prodige 19,90
4.Mango scarf   17,99
5.Sheinside necklace  9,98
6.Marc Jacobs mouse flats 248
7.Forever21 floral baseball cap  8,90
8.Victoria secret bustier bra  36
9.Moschino wallet  182
10.Topshop sunglasses  21

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blogapalooza: WINNERS!



First off, I want to thank EACH and every one of you who stopped by our blog hop this week, wether you just looked at your favorites members of the hop, or completed the entire thing. I hope you enjoyed your amazing freebies, and were truly inspired by these girls-- I know I had a BLAST participating and working with Chic Tags to make it happen. Girls, you all know I heart you, and I think each of you are beautiful and talented, I am so lucky to get to work with great artists everyday!

& I know you've all been waiting to hear who the lucky winners are, so here you go:

$35 gift certificates to Chic Tags:
butterfly843 & Jasmine Ko & Krulik-Anna

Birthday Wishes collection:
Sparklin

Everyday Life II collection:
Jessica Dougherty

Road Trip collection:
Claire T

           GRAND PRIZE: Congrats to MONICA JORDAN!

[Each winner will need to send an e-mail to me at sbookinshay29@aol.com with the subject blogapalooza winner, with your mailing address, so we can get you your prize! Thank you so much, congratulations!]

If you haven't gotten to check it out, start here at the Chic Tags blog to hop along! We want to say how much we appreciate each and every comment that was left, and all the love you gave us xoxo

Since National Scrapbook Day is tomorrow, we want you to get a head start, and start shopping-- Chic Tags is having a SALE, so watch for details-- you DON'T want to miss this!!!!!