Archive for the ‘Wal-Mart’ Category

Wal-Mart targets student decorators on Facebook

August 9th, 2007 — Mark

Wal-Mart have launched a group on Facebook designed to harness the decorating needs of students returning to college.

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Edelman fakes a blog

October 17th, 2006 — Mark

Edelman have been famously effective in advising their client Wal-Mart in how to cope with an avalanche of negative press from unions, media and local pressure groups. My colleague Flemming Madsen even credits them with turning round sentiment about Wal-Mart.
All the more surprising then that Edelman should do something as dumb as a blog [...]

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Blog response: Whole Food boss shows the way

July 28th, 2006 — Mark

The Whole Foods blog
A call from Dominic Rushe of the Sunday Times who is writing about business blogging. I talked as plausibly as I could about what is going on in the UK, but in truth there has not yet been a lot of movement by corporates towards setting up blogs. I [...]

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Customers using search to complain

May 8th, 2006 — Mark

The Overture search inventory tool is one of the great little secrets of the internet. For those who have not discovered it, you can find out who is searching for what around your topic and use the information to drive your paid search choices.
We have been reviewing a particularly sulphurous quantity of consumer-generated [...]

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Case study Wal-Mart

November 3rd, 2005 — Mark

An article in the New York Times (requires free registration or use Bugmenot for a one-time password) profiles how Wal-Mart have taken on their detractors with a pro-active PR campaign, run by a number of ex political campaigners.
The PR campaign emphasises the Wal-Mart positives (good value, local employment) and looks to off-set a campaign [...]

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