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Social Media: Moving Beyond Trial and Error (and Snake-Oil Salesmen)
After reading Max Kalehoff’s column on MediaPost “Are Social-Media Experts Snake-Oil Salesmen?” (playing off of Business Week’s article “Beware Social Media Snake Oil”) you may wonder where the hype ends and the reality begins for social media marketing. A few weeks...
Case Study: The Cervantes Institute Short Story Contest
Following is a preview of Latino Link: Building brands online with Hispanic communities and content: In June of 2009, the Cervantes Institute of Chicago launched a short story contest on their blog with the goal of engaging local writers and Spanish students in the...
Coke Opens Happiness via Educational Promotion
This article originally appeared on MediaPost. This fall, Coca-Cola launched an educational marketing initiative with the goal of helping Hispanics fulfill their dream of learning English. This is an important customer base as Hispanics represent one quarter of Coke’s...