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Thursday, August 30, 2012

5 Reactions to Facebook’s “Page Post Targeting Enhanced”


By Bob Fetter, SVP of Pluris Marketing

Facebook creates so much news that it’s easy to miss a new set of features aimed at marketers- even when those very changes can have big implications on how brands speak to you on the social platform.  Last week, nestled between the social buzz of the Olympics and ups and downs of its stock price, the social network rolled out a bevy of new ways for marketers to take advantage of  things such as your age, interests, gender, relationship status and more to inform how they ‘speak’ to you.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Embracing the Big Data Deluge - If That’s What it Is

By Bob Fetter, SVP of Pluris Marketing

Everyone is talking about big data and judging from my social streams and much of the media coverage, I’m afraid many don’t have a clear understanding about what it is, and if big data is in fact, what they are dealing with. The explosion of data has everyone thinking- “this must be a big data problem” but sadly, a few million emails, a couple thousand social messages and a customer data base, isn’t big data. It may be a lot of data to manage and a headache, but how does the average CMO or CTO build a strategy around handling their data if they prescribing it inaccurately?