Category Archives: Social Media

Facebook Offers – True Social Commerce Arrives

http://youtu.be/B60eo6HcFJg Last week we posted a brief update to our Vegau Facebook page about the latest on Facebook offers. Over the past couple of months, we’ve seen Facebook testing this (latest) Offers feature, and now it appears that the offers are being rolled out to the general public. What's interesting is that Facebook is keeping…
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Seven Social Media Sins That Annoy Your Friends

Just about all of us nowadays use some form of social media, and most who do have accounts on multiple platforms. Being that I'm one of those multiple-platform people, I figured I would share some thoughts on some of the "not-so-good" trends I've noticed - in hopes of making the Social Media Universe a better…
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Tide Takes Another Ride

For many marketing teams, finding the "next great pitch" or creating the "next great ad" can be quite the time-consuming process. Sometimes, however, there are days when things just fall into your lap. That's what Proctor & Gamble, maker of Tide detergent, found out a week ago at the Daytona 500. After NASCAR driver Juan…
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McDonald’s Twitter Advertising Campaign – Epic #McFail

What's that old saying, "if at first you don't succeed"... Try as they did, McDonald's latest Twitter campaign turned out to be another epic disaster. Unfortunately for the fast food giant, this most recent ad campaign - similar to ones before this one - was hijacked by sarcastic internet users who ended up morphing the…
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A Quick Review of Twitter’s Version of TweetDeck: Not Good

Like countless others in the social media universe, I've been using Twitter for years. When I first started using Twitter, my primary goal was to find the best client out there that fit the best with my needs. For me, I found that client to be TweetDeck. I have used it for years and have…
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