Justin Gray

The best (and worst) social media marketing features

Social media has been around long enough for marketers to learn what they love about the category's marketing tools -- and what they can live without. Let's take a look.

Rebecca Debono

Top 5 hottest social media tools

Behind every successful social media marketer is an arsenal of tools that help ideate, implement, and track the success of a campaign. Here are the best of the best.

Brad Brief

How to outsmart your competitors in social

Failing to engage with competing companies can severely damage your image. Here's how to interact with other brands.

Ken Burke

How to turn your social efforts into gold

Deriving ROI from social investments is possible only when brands learn how to connect community and commerce. Learn how to conquer today's ultimate marketing challenge.

Lauren Friedman

5 anti-social brands that should know better

At this point, if your company isn't active on social media, you're late to the party. Here are the brands that seriously need to work on their social skills.

Joseph Carrabis

10 ways to guarantee a losing social campaign

If you're using any of these tactics in social, you will fail or spend loads of money avoiding disaster. Here's exactly what not to do when running your campaign.

Josh Dreller

8 ways to piss off your LinkedIn connections

Are you a LinkedIn misfit? If you're making any of these moves, you might be sending the wrong message to your professional network.

Brian Easter

How to thrive in a post-social world

With the fusion of offline and digital, social no longer exists. Here's why it's time to adapt to a post-social reality or become irrelevant like the Yellow Pages.

Drew Hubbard

7 ways to win laughs in social media

Comedy in social media can easily backfire. But when humor hits the spot, everyone wins. Here's how the funniest brands in social pull it off.

Bob Gilbreath

How to rescue your sinking social strategy

We call it "social fatigue." Marketers are growing tired of social tools that create extra work for them. Here's why a paid-organic approach could be the solution.

Stephen Shepherd

5 tips for creating a branded social image strategy

The consumers have spoken: They want to interact with your brand through engaging, shareable images. Here's how to build a robust visual strategy for the social web.

Keith Pape

4 brands that really stretch their social dollars

Sure, it's easy to be "always on" in social if you have limitless resources. But most brands don't. Here's how to make it seem like you do.

Andrew Swinand

The crucial social opportunity you're missing

Real-time marketing is the ability to harness a social stream, understand its components, and act before the trend has shifted. Are you ahead of the curve or behind it?

Naren Reddy

How to drive sales with Facebook ads

When using Facebook ads, marketers must consider the purchase funnel. Here's how to capture consumers through awareness, interest, desire, and action.

Patrick Sweeney

The perks of product placement on Facebook

Heineken paid $45 million to place a beer bottle in the hands of Daniel Craig in "Skyfall." Here are some good reasons to try product placement on social.

Drew Hubbard

The 7 most annoying people on Twitter

Your Twitter presence says a lot about you as a marketing professional. If you find yourself in any one of these buckets, you're irritating a lot of people.