Posts By Steve Radick

Stop Wasting Years of Your Life, Social Media Strategists

This article originally appeared in PR Daily. If you work in the marketing industry (“social media” is not an industry), you’ve probably either read or heard about this anonymous piece in Digiday and either scoffed at or empathized with the author’s plight. If you haven’t, here are two of the most resonant points: I satRead… Read more »

How an Iconic American Brand Cut Through the Real-time Marketing Clutter of the Super Bowl

Oreo’s “blackout” tweet. Arby’s tweet about Pharrell’s hat, Nintendo’s Wreck-It Ralph Tweet. These are some of the go-to examples of “real-time marketing.” You can’t watch a live event now without being bombarded by branded messages, all of which are meant to associate the brand with the real-time event and become part of the conversation. Unfortunately,Read… Read more »

What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

This article originally appeared in the April edition of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) magazine, Communication World. For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. It was an inefficient, yet accepted dance at organizations of all shapes and sizes. There was paid media, andRead… Read more »

Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

This article originally appeared on PRDaily and also on Entrepreneur.com. For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. In reality, social media marketing has neverRead… Read more »

Before You Commemorate the Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Ask Yourself These 5 Questions

October 28, 2013 satellite image of Hurricane Sandy taken from a NASA satellite Next week is the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. With all the hype around real-time marketing and newsjacking, community managers may find themselves compelled—by a client or colleague—to contribute to this news-driven conversation in social media. When brands do this, it can comeRead… Read more »

Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers AND Google Happy

Scott Smith, Nick Papagiannis and I had the opportunity to kick off Social Media Week Chicago with a presentation titled “Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers, AND Google Happy” to a packed house at Morningstar in Chicago. If you missed it, we’ve created a Storify for the event hashtag and embedded the livestream andRead… Read more »

Four Ways Brands Can #Unplug

Image courtesy of Flickr user davitydave This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins,Read… Read more »

Four Ways Your Organization Can #Unplug

This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins, chats, and texts. He realized hisRead… Read more »