m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

In this post, The Emotional Sale: Selling through Social Media, Sam Fiorella argues consumers are shifting from logical decision making to emotional decision making as a way to compensate for information overload and time crunch pressures.
Logical Appeals
What types of content appeal to the left side of our brains? Sam suggests feature comparisons, testimonials, and white [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Are you a video star? Do you own a flip camera and do all your own on-camera work and well as production and even calendaring and scheduling? Or, do you hire a production team, talent, and staff to do your video work? I’m curious to learn what types of video content you’re creating and whether you’re [...]

In Pre-Commerce: How companies and customers are transforming business together, Bob Pearson, formerly of Dell Computers and now Chief Technology & Media Officer at WCG, a marketing communications agency, delivers the goods on why and how to create a successful pre-commerce program that delivers solid relationships with your customers and strong e-commerce results.
The Transformation of [...]

I attended my first SXSW this month, and I am intrigued by various sessions about creating and marketing content that seeks to inspire, entertain, and educate an audience, be it an audience of consumers who have grown more skeptical about what you have to offer, students who have become more and more disengaged by coursework [...]