Day: May 2, 2011

• Social

  Nescafé’s Path from Soft Launch to Walmart to Facebook

  It was 2008 when Nescafé launched the coffee system, Dolce Gusto, amid a competitive category of already established single-serve coffee makers. After monitoring early sales in specialty retail stores sales looked good and a full roll out took place. With all marketing and selling systems in place, it was time to open a Facebook page.

• Social

  AT&T’s Social Exec Talks About Focusing its Facebook Presence

  Social media has led to a lot of great creativity and innovation in digital communications and marketing. It truly enables the whole concept of word-of-mouth marketing by giving users easy tools to share with their network, for ideas to spread beyond our own social circles, and for new ways to connect with brands and products we love. With all that promise it is important, as companies, for us to provide the most effective way to stay fresh with news and information to keep fans, followers, subscribers, and most importantly, customers efficiently informed.

• Email

  Best Practices: Why Your Website Must Encourage Email Sign-Ups

  All email marketers want more subscribers. Subscribers spend money. If visitors come to your website for one reason or another, they should be encouraged to register to receive your emails. If thousands come to your site and fail to register, you don’t have a very good website.

• Email

  Pediatric Hospital’s Enewsletter Program Grows Up

  Akron Children’s Hospital has revamped its enewsletter program, with an eye towards better tracking responses from parents, donors and other constituents, and growing its email database.