Patrick Ortman, Inc.

Social Media Marketing Works

Written By: Patrick on September 14th, 2009

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We embarked on a social media marketing campaign for one of our mid-sized corporate clients three months ago. It has been an unqualified success, beyond what the client had dared to hope. They’ve enjoyed an over 150% increase in traffic to their website, and by analyzing their logfiles we see a direct correlation of their spikes in traffic with our efforts.

This is only phase one, mind you- a small pilot program. But this pilot program has been successful enough that the client is now getting ready to make our program a regular part of their digital marketing mix.

A lot of people contact us after they’ve read an article in the Wall Street Journal or USA Today, wanting to discuss social media, Web 2.0, and how it can help their business. We’re always happy to talk with potential clients, but we’ve found there are a few things a prospective client needs (more…)

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Written By: Patrick on September 13th, 2009

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Last week, a potential client and I were having  discussion about their company’s digital marketing needs. The company’s a small organization, and one of their concerns was that my company may be too large for their needs. This potential client was worried that we only work with large accounts.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

After all, we are a boutique digital agency, and one of the beauties of being a boutique is you get to decide who to work with, and you get to work in a much more hands-on manner than the bigger, slower, assembly line shops. A diverse client base is a big part of our continued success, and I make a point with our team that we must nurture all of our clients, no matter the size. You see, like any successful digital agency we’ve had months where our smaller accounts have saved the day for us. We’ve also watched a number of smaller accounts “grow up” into quite large, multinational corporations (I like to think their growth was helped along by our involvement with them in the early days). (more…)

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