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

Social Media = Key Driver of Brand Awareness and Reputation

February 26th, 2009 · Comments

The following chart from Marketing Sherpa takes a look at how brands and companies can best go about creating brand awareness, increasing affinity, and driving traffic to any targeted brand message. According to the study, in all of these scenarios a majority of brands and marketers turn to Social Media-driven strategy to make this happen.

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Tags: Industry News · Marketing · Research · Social Media

Cleaning Up a Social Media “Mess”

October 17th, 2008 · Comments

This post was inspired by some events that transpired over the past week.  In a nutshell, the teenage daughter of a well-respected and all around nice guy in the WOM industry recently went missing. When word got out, it spread like wildfire and spurred a flurry of good samaritanism among others in the industry who [...]

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Tags: Marketing · PR · Social Media