Vishing Attack At The Ritz: A New Type Of Social Engineering Scam

There’s another clever fraud tactic to add to your library of security threats. Imagine a call or voice message that appears to come from a trusted source but is really a disguised attempt to compromise your identity, credentials or financial information. More of a social engineering scheme than a vulnerability,

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What Is Good Social Media Marketing Strategy And How To Build It

In recent years, more and more brands are turning to social media for marketing purposes. Indeed, social media marketing has proven to be very effective towards many goals; lead generation, increasing brand awareness and loyalty, and so forth. However, there are also many pitfalls for the unsuspecting and unprepared. Loose

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What Is Social Media Advocacy And How To Integrate It Into Your Marketing Strategy

The Word of Mouth Marketing Association defines “advocacy” as an act that generates recommendations, reviews, or support for a brand or product. In other words, instead of you telling your audience how amazing you are, you ask your customers to sing your praises for you.

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Why Your Brand Need A Social Media Marketing Strategy

The truth is that there’s more to a social media marketing strategy than posting content on a platform and waiting for the results to roll in. You need to consider your audience, whether you’re using the right platform, how you’re representing your brand, and whether your tone matches the audience. You need to consider consistency, schedule, and the combination of value-oriented and branded content.

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How Artificial Intelligence [AI] Can Enhance Our Memory, Work And Social Lives

How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make “humanistic AI” that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us achieve superhuman performance in perception, creativity and cognitive function – from turbocharging our design skills to helping us remember everything we’ve ever read and the name of everyone we’ve ever met. “We are in the middle of a renaissance in AI,” Gruber says. “Every time a machine gets smarter, we get smarter.”

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Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Brand Growth Will Boost Social Ad Spending

The success of DTC companies stems from their development of improved approaches for connecting with their customers, as demonstrated by two new Forrester reports: “Changing Expectations Fuel Direct-To-Consumer Disruption” and “To Adapt To Direct-To-Consumer Trends, Use A Direct-To-Value Strategy.” These approaches are part of what Forrester calls a “direct-to-value (DTV)” strategy.

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