Yahoo Pipes in Transition: A New Sales Model?

Share Here at Mambo Media, we have had occasion to use a free app developed by Yahoo called Pipes (pipes.yahoo.com). Pipes is a clever system for aggregating, sorting and filtering content from the web using  an easy-to-learn interface that allows wide-ranging customization. This week, Yahoo is “upgrading” Pipes to run on a more efficient platform, Read more…

Netflix Brand Loss: How to Preserve Your Brand Equity

Share Now that we’ve had some time to let the Netflix price increase backlash settle, we’d like to explain how an organized crisis communication plan would have saved Netflix some of their brand equity. Netflix’s Business Problem Up until now, movie studios sold the streaming licensing rights to Netflix for less than they were worth. However, Read more…

Event Lead Nurturing Checklist: Before, During, After

Share Whew, the big event you’ve been working on for months is finally over. People registered, some of them attended, and you emailed them a “thank you.” But did you integrate lead nurturing into your event? Did you take advantage of your opportunity to build trust with individuals and convert prospects? At Mambo, we approach Read more…

Are you Crisis Ready?

Share Mambo Media has partnered with LT Public Relations to offer its clients a robust crisis communications program to help their PR team prepare for and manage an assortment of disruptive emergencies. Crises today come in all forms, they’re often unanticipated, and most have detrimental effects on a company’s sales and brand reputation…for years. Social Read more…

The Road to Purchase: How to Create a Touchpoint Strategy

Share Touchpoints – moments that customers or prospects interact with a brand – are a critical element in any customer-centric marketing strategy. The goal is influence the customer at every point of contact, be it at the store, through social media content or via customer service. For marketers, however, the advent of media proliferation (yes, Read more…

JumpStart Your Social Media Marketing in 2011

Share Wouldn’t it be great if you could hire an award-winning social media strategy firm for 3 months to help you jumpstart your online presence? Mambo Media’s new JumpStart packages are for businesses new to social media or those that need to re-energize their social media presence for 2011. Our 3-Month JumpStart Packages include: Social Read more…

Social Media: Should Small Businesses Train or Hire?

Share I recently answered this LinkedIn question and wanted to share my response with you: As a small business, do you want to be trained on how to use social media or hire a social media strategist to implement it for you? Great question, Cynthia. I manage an online marketing firm that specializes in social Read more…

The Zen of an Audit

Share One of the first activities of Mambo’s Social Media program is the audit. With the audit we take a 20,000 feet view of a client’s marketplace, consumers, communication issues and competition in social media. We discuss what is working and what isn’t; where there is whitespace in the market; and how to capitalize on Read more…

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