The different steps in a social media marketing campaign: an interview

Bart De Waele You probably know that I have been saying that email marketing, social media marketing and every other form of marketing you can imagine should be a part of an encompassing marketing strategy, enabling you to see the big picture (and the overall ROI), instead of focusing on the channels and media themselves.

Recently, I interviewed Bart De Waele. He’s a Belgian social media expert so you might have never heard about him before. However, his social media marketing and online reputation management company (one of his many ventures) is doing quite well.

I asked Bart to talk a bit about his views on social media marketing. 

For starters, I asked Bart what, according to him, the different steps are that should be taken in a social media marketing campaign.

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MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit ’10: “email subject lines are the new Twitter for emarketers”

Our man in Miami (who by now must be our man somewhere in Europe) sent some more impressions of MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit ’10, more precisely of the last day of the event.

He writes that this last day was all about social and permission marketing. It struck him that the US (opt-out) market is using the advantage of working in a 100% opt-in concept too now.

And that was exactly the link between social media, deliverability and the topics of the last day, Kenny says.

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