Category: social media trends and news
LiveWorld CEO, Peter Friedman, joined AM Ocala Live hosts Larry Whitler & Robin McBlane to talk about social media and The CMO’s Social Media Handbook. He discussed how to improve your strategy, how social media affects music sales and small brands, and what retargeting is. Peter also explained the difference between social media marketing and […]
In this interview, our CEO, Peter Friedman spoke with Bob Pritchard to give a candid look into the social media and marketing industries. Peter uses his years of experience in the social media industry to discuss with Bob how to do social media effectively, how to respond to a crisis, and the importance of understanding your customers. […]
Our CEO, Peter Friedman, met with Paul Sladkus of Good News Broadcast, to discuss The CMO’s Social Media Handbook. Listen as Peter explains the book to Paul and how it can be used by brands to improve their social media strategy. Topics explored include: mitigating PR landmines, responding to social media crises, legal and privacy issues, […]
Liveworld’s CEO Peter Friedman was one of many “Who’s Who” of the social media industry who attended Social Media Today’s annual Social Shake-Up. The event took place September 16-17, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. Social Shake-Up featured presentations from big names like IBM, Wal-Mart, Bank of America, ESPN, Forbes, Coca-Cola and Netflix, among others. Plus, there […]
Remember those days long ago when people tried to reduce marketing to “the guys who make the ads”? It wasn’t really true then, but it definitely isn’t true now. Today’s successful B-to-B CMO—that is, the one leading their company to growth—isn’t thinking about ad spots so much as she’s thinking about Marketechture, the way a […]
Our company, LiveWorld, through the great efforts of our team, has seen good progress in the last few years. Along with that, we’ve had team members repeatedly come close to burning out—including me. I’d like to see us continue to grow and do well, but in a more balanced fashion. Some of this is better […]
Our team at LiveWorld recently brainstormed what we see as the top social media trends looking back at 2013 — not just to play quarterbacks, but as an exercise to help us look forward at what’s coming next year. This is our combined take, based on our experiences working with over 175 brands from the […]
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, […]
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.