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Any organization, despite the industry, is tracking metrics day in and day out. These metrics play a significant role in the organizations overall performance, and every organization tracks and monitor some type of performance metric, these areas could include: sales, finance, social media, marketing, lead generation, consumer data, and the list goes on. These metrics are vital for the organization to improve in those areas and their overall performance and can also be used to increase customer satisfaction, customer retention, revenue and employee performance. Without metrics, these organizations would be left without key consumer data, have a challenging time marketing their products or services, understanding their consumers, tracking sales and revenue, and their research and development would slow down tremendously. Metrics support and improve the overall performance of organizations, that is why Metroland Media remains one of the media industry leaders in Canada, due to their strong metric management.
Mabel’s Labels Successful Social Media Marketing that Sticks!

What binds together four University of Waterloo Alumni, millennia moms, and celebrity moms like Victoria Beckham, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rachel Weisz, Heidi Klum, and Reese Witherspoon? Mabel’s Labels. They have developed a brand and social media marketing platform that responds to the needs of moms worldwide. What is unique about this story? The founders of Mabel’s Labels are pioneers. They started their company before the words “social” and “media” were put together in sequence (note that Facebook was founded in 2004). When founders Julie Cole, Julie Ellis, Cynthia Esp and Tricia Mumby created Mabel’s Labels through their social networks with other moms, they knew they were on to something… 2003, four busy moms noticed a huge gap in the market for durable kids’ labels. Frustrated by their children’s things getting lost, mixed up and leaving home never to return, knew they could do better than the scribbles on masking tape that were being passed off as labels. Presently, Mabels Labels has 163,600 devoted Facebook followers with a conversion rate of 5.1%. In January 2016 they were acquired for $12 million by Canadian-based CCL Industries for its Avery North America division.
Bruckmann Martial Arts: How Disaster Was Averted By Employee Involvement

Professor Justin Bruckmann walked into his martial arts academy on September 8th, 2016, expecting a normal day of teaching classes. What he was instead greeted by was the destruction of his life’s work. The club’s hot water tank had burst, flooding the entire building. Nothing could be salvaged, from the floor mats, to the washrooms and Justin was left waiting for insurance to pick up the pieces. With nothing to do but wait, Justin turned to his social media network to spread the terrible news, there were classes to teach and no academy to house the students. What happened next was a perfect example of employee involvement helping an organization recover and thrive.
Hyatt gets Social Media right by making it Personal

Title of Post: Hyatt gets Social Media right by making it Personal Organization: Hyatt.com Industry: Hospitality Web References: Hyatt Thrive, Harvard Business Review, Gallup, Wikepedia, Triplepundit, The Gallup organization reported that in 2014 over 68% of US employees toil day in and day out unengaged and/or actively disengaged in their workplace. That’s part of the modern world you yawn; but that could… Read more »
Wildwinds Golf Links: Leading The Field In Customer Engagement
Title: Wildwinds Golf Links: Leading The Field In Customer Engagement Organization Name: Wildwinds Golf Links Industry: Golf, Sports Name of Contact: Scott MacKay (General Manager) Who Are They? Wildwinds Golf Links is a relatively new golf course located just a few minutes north-east of Guelph, ON. Originally a private 6 hole facility, the course has undergone renovations and expansion several times. It now… Read more »
Molson Coors Social Media Strategy Starts Bitter but has a Smooth Finish
It could be argued that consumer social media has become a bit of an art, with companies scrambling over all the social media chatter to be noticed and to engage their target markets in meaningful interactions and relationships. In Lauren McKay’s article “Transparency“, she argues that the adoption of social media by the corporate world “not only increases transparency, but… Read more »