I’ve been building relationships for companies through online community and social media for 29 years, starting from my earliest work at Apple with a product called Desktop Express and the Apple industry online community, AppleLink, and continuing to my present role as chairman and CEO of LiveWorld, which provides social content marketing solutions to major […]
Most of the Fortune 500 CMOs understand the benefits of social media—more brand awareness for the marketing buck, customer service improvements, heightened customer loyalty, and growth in sales, to name a few. As marketing expert Jeff Hayzlett said to me when I interviewed him recently, “CMOs know social media is the right thing to do. […]
As I gear up for the NG CMO Summit in September, I sat down to interview marketing expert Jeffrey Hayzlett. Jeff was one of the first CMOs, most famously at Kodak, to “get” social and successfully leverage its power to redefine brands and build customer relationships. Today he’s better known as a global business celebrity, […]
LiveWorld is a social content marketing company providing moderation, insight and engagement. A trusted partner to the world’s largest brands, LiveWorld provides a competitive advantage through management of user content, amplifying brand presence and increasing customer loyalty. Kevin Price talks to LiveWorld’s Chairman and CEO, Peter Friedman, to find out more about the company. What […]
Because we believe in the power of dialogue and relationships March 6, 1996: Jenna Woodul, my soon to be co-founder, and I were having breakfast at the Peppermill in Cupertino, CA across the street from the Apple building in which we worked. We were discussing whether or not to start a new Internet company. […]
At some point, every social media director has to sit down and show their boss that their social strategy is “working.” When that moment comes, they typically turn to an engagement metric—say, the ratio of average total of likes, comments and shares on posts to the total number of fans. This isn’t a bad metric. […]
LiveWorld is a trusted social media moderation partner to the world’s largest brands, and it provides brands a competitive advantage through management of user content, amplifying brand presence and increasing customer loyalty. Shelly talks to LiveWorld’s Chairman and CEO, Peter Friedman, to find out some more about the company. What differentiates LiveWorld from other similar […]
You’ve thrown a party to celebrate a milestone birthday and—sometime between the champagne and the crudités—you make a speech about the wonders of, well, you. You boast about giving up simple carbs and the time you shoveled your neighbor’s driveway without being asked. And watch how many push-ups I can do! You wouldn’t do that, […]
Forty-three percent of adults say they’ve participated in showrooming, according to a Harris Poll from November 2012. Yet, tomorrow’s biggest headline isn’t going to be about how e-commerce cannibalized brick-and-mortar stores. The future lies in integration and leveraging the best of each to grow revenue across the board. Today’s savviest retailers are rethinking the very […]
Leading a networked world, by Peter Friedman. Click here to download the article.
