Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Welcome to Social Media Playground, a place to discuss all things related to word of mouth (WOM) and social media marketing. Brought to you by Affinitive, a word of mouth and social media marketing, technology and strategic solutions firm located in New York City and San Francisco.

Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

A Visualization of the “Social” Landscape…

March 24th, 2010 · View Comments

For those of us working on the front-lines of social marketing, we’re often faced with the challenge of clients telling us they are looking for one thing (i.e., “We want to identify and directly engaging 5,000 of our most passionate customers by developing a customer community”), but measuring the success/value of such initiatives against another [...]

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Tags: Marketing · PR · Research · Social Media · Strategy

3 Steps to Influence Purchase Decisions Online

September 29th, 2008 · View Comments

A new report from MarketTools reveals that nearly 70% of Americans visit blogs, communities or social networks.  Of all respondents in the study, nearly half have been influenced in their purchase decisions by social media. Your product is being talked about everywhere by everyone.  A single product review can be seen by millions.  This realization [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Research · Social Media