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Apples to Apples?

May 3, 2013 – 10:05 am

Businesses share core principles of business that are common and integral regardless of product, service and industry. These same principles when adjusted for variation in size, logistics, and offerings become essential to the overall success of a business whether delivering a load of stone or a pair of designer jeans. Considerations for supply and demand, [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in Strategy | Also tagged advertising, Atlanta, atlanta business, branding, business, business news, businesses, Commitment, communication, Consolidation, customer experience, foursquare, fractured marketing environment, hybrid agency, impact, influence, Internal Focus, Julie Gareleck, Junction, Junction Creative Solutions, marketing, Monitor and Measure, optimize in-store, personalization, principles, Rapid Rewards, Southwest Airlines, strategy, success, technology, Value, Venuelabs | Comments (0)

Get Your Game Face On

December 6, 2012 – 12:50 pm

The rise of Generation X as a dominating consumer group has brought some changing attitudes towards the role of many new and innovative niches of the marketing ecosystem. Throughout 2012, social enterprise generated buzz as the latest new development in the explosive growth of social media. Facebook’s billion dollar buyout of Instagram in April symbolized [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in Practices, Social Media, Strategy | Also tagged acquisitions, advertising, agency, analytics, atlanta business, badges, big data, business model, business strategy, cnn, competition, competitive nature, consulting, consumer education, crowdsourced, crowdsourcing, desired behavior, emerging, engagement, entertainment, entrepreneur, Facebook, firm, funding, game experiences, games, games for education, gamificiation, gaming, hot topic, impact, increase ROI, influence, infoarmy, innovation, keeping up with the joneses, leaderboards, log data, loyalty, marketing, marketing ecosystem, metrics, MPM, next big thing, niche, online research, organizing data, platform, pro sports, rankings, results, revolution, rypple, salesforce, social commerce, social media, social performance, Startups, strategy, trends, venture capital, video games | Comments (0)

Ahhhh……Freak out!

June 28, 2012 – 11:40 am

Social media is all the rage these days. And these days, rage might be an understatement. Last week, Twitter experienced the longest service disruption since its hour long outage in October 2011, causing an internet freak-out. Known for its history of similar outages, it didn’t take long for the user base to divert attention to [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in Social Media | Also tagged @facebook email, Atlanta, complaints, controversy, conversation, Creative, engagement, Facebook, facebook crash, facebook problems, flood, freak out, hashtags, impact, influence, info, issues, permissions, pinterest, popularity, privacy settings, reaction, reactive, reputation, service disruption, social media, social media drawbacks, social media platforms, solutions, tagged, tumblr, Twitter, twitter crash, twitter downtime, user experience, wildfire, zuckerberg | Comments (0)

Sharing A Social Snapshot

June 7, 2012 – 2:20 pm

Two months after Facebook announced the acquisition of the mobile photo editing and sharing app Instagram for $1B in cash, the social media giant has become the favorite subject of scrutiny in the financial media. The 10-figure purchase was made in anticipation of an IPO on the NASDAQ; part of a feverish run up to [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in News, Social Media | Also tagged advertising, advertising effectiveness, billion dollars, business model, business plan, captive audience, crash, Facebook, facebook headquarters, facebook IPO, facebook search, facebook stock, facebook stock crash, facebook userbase, facebook users, facebook value, impact, influence, innovation, instagram founders, investors, ipo disaster, marget regulators, marketing, mcdonalds, menlo park, messaging, monetize, money, nasdaq, net worth, new york times, photo sharing, photo sharing site, results, revenue, social, social advertising, social media, social media bubble, social network, Social Networking, stock, strategy, tech bubble, Value, Wall Street, wall street regulation, yahoo lawsuit, zuckerberg, zuckerberg worth | Comments (0)

BranchOut: When Business Gets Personal

May 8, 2012 – 1:20 pm

The excitement of logging on to Facebook to find new notifications has been marred recently with the rise in popularity of BranchOut the “#1 professional network on Facebook.” The company’s founders believe that the vast size of the social network’s userbase, including a large percentage of members under the age of 40, primes their application [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged branchout, branchout blog, branchout popularity, branchout userbase, connections, desirable sonnections, digital, executive level, executive network, experience, Facebook, facebook and linkedin, facebook initial value, facebook IPO, facebook upcoming IPO, friend request, friends, functionality, headhunters, high level, impact, influence, influencers, job listings, job posting, jobs, linkedin, linkedin advantage, linkedin alternative, media, neilsen research, network, Networking, notifications, online, online job board, online jobs, pop up, precedent, professional network, relationship networking, results, seasoned professionals, social media, social media network, social network, social vs professional, status update, strategy, target audience, Target Market, true professionals, Twitter, Value | Comments (0)

Social Media: Boom to Bust?

May 2, 2012 – 2:20 pm

As Facebook reports its user base has reached 901 million users and acquires Instagram for a staggering $1 billion, industry analysts continue to debate the existence of what is being deemed the “social media bubble.” Some argue that social media is a sign of a burgeoning online community that fuels the economy. Skeptics speculate that [...]

By junctioncreative | Posted in Social Media, Strategy, Technology | Also tagged acquisitions, advertising, Atlanta, business, company valuation, corporate, Creative, digital, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, equity valuation, Facebook, facebook userbase, Growth Sector, impact, industry news, influence, insight, interactive, internet sector, IPO, Junction, market, marketing, potential buying power, publicly traded, results, social media, social media bubble, social media fund, social media startups, social space, solutions, stability, stock prices, strategy, sustainability, tech bubble, tech startups, valuation, Value, venture capital, venture capitalist, visibility, zuckerberg | Comments (1)