Over a Million Steps in the Right Direction

Steps for Water Participants

Just days after a devastating earthquake hit the island of Haiti in January of 2010, I received a call from one of my Art Directors. He felt helpless and wanted to know if Rosetta could do something. “We’re a company of smart, creative people. Surely we can help raise awareness and money.” He had the start of an idea, and after talking it over for a while, he went off to work it through. A few weeks later, with the help of a developer or two, we launched Donation Connect, a mobile app that aggregated all the charities raising money for Haiti, and allowed the user to make a donation to their favorite with a single tap. The app didn’t make a tremendous impact on the Haiti relief efforts, but it did demonstrate that by using our creativity and technological skills, we could do amazing things to change the world.

Fast forward to last Saturday, May 12, 2012 and multiply those two or three inspired team members by nearly 250! That’s how many people took part in Steps for Water, Rosetta’s first virtual walk-a-thon to benefit Water.org. In December 2011, enlightened and inspired by FastCompany Senior Writer, Ellen McGirt, Rosetta made a collective commitment to apply our creativity toward an innovative solution for raising awareness and helping to solve the world water crisis. Read More

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Let’s All Take Steps for Water

Steps for Water | May 12, 2012 | Download the App and Join From Anywhere

Your participation in Steps for Water on Saturday, May 12th means we have a better chance of reaching our goal of 1 million collective steps and raising awareness for the world water crisis, which largely impacts poor women and children and takes the life of approximately 5,000 children each and every day.  Read More

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Q&A With New Healthcare Partner, Kieran Walsh

 

Kieran Walsh Joins Rosetta as New Healthcare Partner

Kieran Walsh recently joined Rosetta as a Partner in the Healthcare vertical. Kieran will oversee several client accounts as well as lead business development for consumer healthcare. I took this opportunity to welcome him to the team and to discuss some current trends in healthcare marketing that he’s excited about, why he decided to join Rosetta, and how he got his start as a brand marketer.

J.M.: You’ve been in the healthcare marketing industry for over 25 years. How has the emergence of digital and social channels changed the digital marketing landscape?

K.W.: Digital has completely transformed healthcare marketing as we know it. We’ve now entered into the era of the empowered patient. Consumers spend a significant amount of time online researching information, and are increasingly using mobile and tablet devices to search treatment options prior to consulting a physician. Social media channels allow consumers to create and share content with each other and open the door to peer-to-peer dialogue that had previously been controlled by healthcare. To stay on top of this growing trend as healthcare marketers, we need to create customized and personalized solutions that are aligned with these current consumer behaviors.  Read More

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Pinterest: The Network of Inspired Purchasers

Pinterest: The Network of Inspired Purchasers

It’s no secret; Pinterest is hot. Perhaps the most discussed social media channel since Facebook’s introduction. Some are even speculating it is the next Facebook. According to comScore, Pinterest hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors in January, making it the fastest standalone site in history to cross the 10 million mark. Additionally, Pinterest is driving substantial traffic to brand sites surpassing YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter.

The additional brand visibility is great, but ultimately what does it mean to a brand’s bottom line? As marketers we need to understand both sides of the coin, or the effectiveness and efficiency of a media channel. This type of analysis allows a brand to shift marketing dollars to capture the best traffic.

To understand how Pinterest impacts online retailers, we have benchmarked Pinterest against other social channels’ inbound traffic for nine months, using some of our large retail clients’ data.  Read More

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A Step In the Right Direction

The Steps for Water Virtual Walk-a-Thon is May 12, 2012

In December 2011, after learning of the plight of the more than 880 million people who lack access to safe drinking water, we decided to put our talents and resources against the problem. Our first step was Common Thirst, a $10,000 donation to Water.org and the launch of our partnership with the charity dedicated to solving the world water crisis by delivering long-term water and sanitation solutions that are both sustainable and economically viable.

But one step was not enough, not when millions of women walk more than 3.7 miles a day through terrifying conditions just to bring back fresh water for their children. And not when 1.5 million children die each year from water-borne diseases. No, we needed a lot more steps.  Read More

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