Rant: Enough With the Memes, Okay?

Generate All The Memes | Brandon Coppernoll

In June and July I first noticed Hubspot discussing popular memes as marketing campaigns and “memejacking.” At first when I read the articles I considered them novel ideas. Memes are fun little ways to make a point or devise a little humor around a topic. I chuckled at some of the examples, and then I [...]

Learning How To Be On a Marketing Team

Learning How To Be One a Marketing Team | Brandon Coppernoll

Last week I came to the realization I still have a lot to learn about being on a marketing team. I learned there’s never really a natural progression of learning to be on a team, new team, or even a new kind of team. That is through your experience and more importantly – your mistakes. [...]

My Simple Definition for Marketing vs. Advertising

Simple Definition for Advertising vs. Marketing | Brandon Coppernoll

A tweet by Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer got my attention yesterday. There was some serious coverage recently about GM’s decision to leave Facebook’s advertising in the dust due to a lack of results. David Scott’s request to stop confusing social media marketing and advertising on social sites was thought provoking and full of rich content. [...]

Why We Still Need Websites

With social media gaining popularity on a daily basis, the focus in the web industry has shifted to following companies on Twitter or becoming fans on Facebook as opposed to searching for the corporate website. Furthermore, companies are also directing a lot of their web traffic to their blog instead of their primary marketing base: [...]