Posts By: mdevries

MDV Presents on Staffing & KPIs for 1776.vc

We are very pleased to have presented for the second webinar in the Startup Grind series for 1776.vc — an organization where top entrepreneurs go to scale their companies. View the full presentation video here

MDV Donates $1000 to the Maryland Food Bank

This morning we donated $1000 to the Maryland Food Bank to help our friends and neighbors during the Corona quarantine. Please join us and donate today. Any amount helps. https://mdfoodbank.org/

MDV Named 16th Fastest Growing Company in Md

On October 17, at a BBJ event in the Warby Parker building, MDV Interactive was named the 16th fastest growing company in the greater Baltimore region. The award was accepted by founder, Marci De Vries and partner Lisa Wurfl-Roeca.

Finalist for Bridging the Gap Award from GBC

MDV Interactive, a woman-owned business in greater Baltimore has been nominated for the 2016 Bridging the gap award from the Greater Baltimore Committee. For more than a decade, the GBC has been recognizing, through its Bridging the Gap Awards, exceptional minority- and women-owned businesses and majority businesses and executives who nurture the development of minority… Read more »

Customer Touchpoints

An integral planning component of all social media campaigns is to plot out the customer touch points with your brand, purchase vehicles, salespeople, delivery vehicles and post-implementation. If your company takes the time to carefully think about each time the company touches a customer prior to, during, and after the purchase, you will find that… Read more »

Social Media Strategy begins with your Reputation

Working in social media has morphed again. Just last year it was still about content, content, content to put out and then re-post across social media venues. Recently, we have found it is MORE important (the foundation to the campaign) to begin with Reputation Management. This means you our your agency goes out and reads… Read more »

Forrester Social Technology Profile Tool

Anyone working in social media needs to know the social technographics of their target audience. Below is an easy chart from Forrester Research that shows who does what in social media. So for example, if your marketing target is a Creator, make sure your campaigns provide elements that can be used by your target marketing… Read more »

Google Trends for Social Media Marketing

This morning I had a call with my Google Adwords rep and she pointed me to a very interesting tool for research. It can be used for social media OR Adwords, or really many other things. Go to http://google.com/trends On this page you can enter keywords that you feel relate to your business. And then… Read more »

AMA in the AM Big Data Event

Join an all-star cast from the world of Big Data! May 28, 2015, 8:00AM-10:30AM Brown Center 1300 W Mt Royal Ave Atrium & Falvey Hall Baltimore, MD 21217 REGISTER NOW! Meet the innovative players and top leaders from the world of Big Data as they  have a frank in-depth exchange on critical business topics and openly and honestly discuss real… Read more »

Don’t Fear the Epiphanot

Published in the Colorado Springs Business Journal September 9, 2011 Have you ever put up a Facebook status update only to instantly regret it? I’ve done it more than I care to admit, but was pleased to find that the Urban Dictionary has already addressed the sentiment. These statements are called “epiphanots.” According to the… Read more »