Mobile Marketing Goodness: Chili’s

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It’s easier than ever to use QR codes in marketing, but just because you can doesn’t mean you should. We recently ate at our local Chili’s and I was impressed with their mobile campaign. The takeaways: You can’t have just one. Multiple codes make the menu almost interactive. In addition to the sangria video, there [...]

Infographic: Social Timing

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Interesting how time of day affects response on social media channels. This reminds us that social interaction — online and off — doesn’t necessarily confine itself to the nine-to-five schedule. What’s your experience with timing?  

Killed by Tech

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I remember my parents shelling out big bucks for Encyclopedia Brittanica. I used to travel for business and had a huge atlas I depended on daily. Phone book — I throw them away now. I’m not sure my kids (19 and 23) have ever heard a busy signal. I do miss my Day-Timer just a [...]

Are We Obsessed With Facebook?

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I’m guilty of a couple of these … checking Facebook on my phone before I get out of bed: yeah. I don’t think I talk to more people online that I do in real life, but I do talk to people on Facebook that I wouldn’t talk to in real life — friends who live [...]

Facebook Did What?

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Every time Facebook changes things — which, it seems, it all the time, users get upset. Many of us are change-averse; some of us even react negatively to positive change. I often accuse my husband of being so change-averse he’d be upset if we won the lottery. (I’d love the chance to test my theory.) [...]