Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

Semil Shah recently shared a post on TechCrunch on the value of PR. Most of our readers here don’t need to be persuaded on this, so the post isn’t likely new territory for you. However one bit from the post deserves a response (emphasis mine):

You can’t make this stuff up. A few days ago an Applebee’s server posted the above receipt to Reddit. A rude and inappropriate response from what I would classify as a very selfish restaurant goer.

Most of my career has been spent working on the agency-side. At one point, I had the idea of creating a personalized dashboard to show results in a visual format and also personally know how I was doing to help my team.

While many marketers are still learning to be data-driven and hire the right people, those who are advanced are continually adopting new datasets and processes to refine what they do.

Ian Lurie, one of my favorite bloggers, has a quick, easy to understand presentation on data that persuades. As I’ve seen my share of poorly created graphs and impossible to understand data visualizations over the years, I loved this and thought it worth embedding.

This morning, there was some horrific news of a shooting at the Batman screening in Aurora, Colo. At least 12 dead, dozens more wounded in this horrific event.