NAME:
| 7Summits | DESCRIPTION:
| Founded in 2009, 7Summits is a Social Business Agency with mission of helping their clients’ customers, employees and partners build their business. 7Summits refers to this as Applied Social Media for Business. 7Summits is dedicated to helping clients apply social media to drive business imperatives. The firm brings deep marketing and social media strategy expertise that helps organizations wade through the hype and focus on moving key operational metrics. | LOCATION:
| Based in Milwaukee, WI & Chicago, IL
| | COMPANY URL: | 7Summits | | |
NAME:
| Affinitive | DESCRIPTION:
| "[A] leading provider of word of mouth (WOM) and social media marketing and technology solutions." Comes from the WOM space. | LOCATION:
| Headquartered in New York with an office in San Francisco | | COMPANY URL: | Affinitive | | |
NAME:
| Atlas Consulting Inc | DESCRIPTION:
| We are working with enterprises to solve problems using social software. Training, education, research, writing, strategic plans and resource center.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Los Angeles, CA USA | | COMPANY URL: | Atlas Consulting Inc | | |
NAME:
| Bold Mouth | DESCRIPTION:
| "A Social Media Agency." Focuses on "listening" to what your customers are saying. Blog is also available. | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Bold Mouth | | |
NAME:
| Bold Vision Consulting
| DESCRIPTION:
| Social media consulting, planning & outsourcing services. We take an enterprise-wide view to help organizations improve business and revenue growth. | LOCATION:
| Based in Portland, ME
| | COMPANY URL: | Bold Vision Consulting
| | |
NAME:
| Brand Advance
| DESCRIPTION:
| We pride ourselves in taking the time to understand, interpret and convey your brand and message with a custom tailored design for your specific audience. We focus on social media strategy, SEO consulting, and marketing strategy.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Orlando, Fl
| | COMPANY URL: | Brand Advance
| | |
NAME:
| Citizen Agency | DESCRIPTION:
| "An Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing. Run by Tara Hunt (blog) with an office in San Francisco. | LOCATION:
| San Francisco
| | COMPANY URL: | Citizen Agency | | |
NAME:
| Cognizant Business Consulting - Customer Solutions
| DESCRIPTION:
| Cognizant Business Consulting - Customer Solutions (CBC CS) is a full-service CRM and customer-centric business process consulting organization providing special focus and expertise around SCRM/Social Media consulting. We collaborate with our customers to define and recommend their SCRM Roadmaps and SCRM Maturity Models for global rollouts, including technology assessments and recommendations. | LOCATION:
| Based in Teaneck, NJ - global sites too
| | COMPANY URL: | Cognizant Business Consulting - Customer Solutions
| | |
NAME:
| Converseon | DESCRIPTION:
| "An innovative, full-service digital Web 2.0 communications agency that helps companies join the conversation in order to manage reputations and meet business goals." Constantin Basturea (blog) is the Director of New Media Strategies. | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Converseon | | |
NAME:
| Conversify | DESCRIPTION:
| Conversify is a Social Media Marketing agency that helps brands engage in social media. Our capabilities run the gamut from strategy to implementation. Aliza Sherman, founder of Webgrrls, prominent blogger and author of several books (most recently "The Everything Blogging Book") provides deep knowledge of the new media space. We are located in offices across the U.S. and U.K. | LOCATION:
| Based in Denver, CO
| | COMPANY URL: | Conversify | | |
NAME:
| CYENTIST
| DESCRIPTION:
| CYENTIST connects humans at companies with humans living life. We're a social media agency. We encourage companies to become interested in their markets, not just interesting. Specialties: start-ups, product launches, established brands approaching social media for the first time. Social Media Agency Blog.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Garwood, NJ USA
| | COMPANY URL: | CYENTIST
| | |
NAME:
| Dean Holmes
| DESCRIPTION:
| I am a thinker, Father of two awesome children and Husband to a Angelic Wife of 15 years. Often accused of being an Idea-a-holic and sometimes I create Social and Community strategies that have far reaching affects on brands, both big and small. For years, I have been preparing my thoughts, ideas and technology framework to afford me and my clients the thought leadership needed to bring their organizations into a Social and Online environment. | LOCATION:
| Based in Fincastle, VA
| | COMPANY URL: | Dean Holmes
| | |
NAME:
| Drillteam
| DESCRIPTION:
| "We collaborate with people to build brands..." and "A brand innovation company which follows a 2.0 approach to engaging consumers." CEO is Steve Kleinber. | LOCATION:
| Based in New York City
| | COMPANY URL: | Drillteam | | |
NAME:
| Durbin Media
| DESCRIPTION:
| "Great creative agencies make your brand (and you) look terrific. Smart social media firms ensure audiences notice your great personality. We do both."
| LOCATION:
| Based in St. Louis, Missouri | | COMPANY URL: | Durbin Media | | |
NAME:
| eCairn Inc.
| DESCRIPTION:
| eCairn provides tools for businesses to identify key influencers within Social Media. Often times, a business is not able to aggregate all sources of feedback from consumers of their services and products. eCairn's product, eCairn Conversation™, allows businesses to listen to social media communities that matter in their industry and implement effective marketing strategies.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Palo Alton, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | eCairn, Inc.
| | | NAME:
| Every Dot Connects
| DESCRIPTION:
| "Every Dot Connects is a social media consortium, a group of independent media practitioners who are passionate about using new technologies to build bridges between people and ideas and causes. We believe that too much attention has been focused on these new technologies rather than on the relationships they enable."
| LOCATION:
| Based in Austin, Tx | | COMPANY URL: | Every Dot Connects | | |
NAME:
| Extanz.com
| DESCRIPTION:
| Extanz specializes in Social Media, Business Intelligence, PR 2.0, Inbound Marketing and Community Engagement. Starting a social media program from scratch or augmenting your current strategy, Extanz will bring best practices to your program. More at http://extanz.com | LOCATION:
| Based in Fort Collins, CO
| | COMPANY URL: | Extanz.com
| | |
NAME:
| Federated Media
| DESCRIPTION:
| Besides running one of the largest blogging ad networks, the firm has also started offering consulting services to companies interested in being more effective at "conversational marketing." Company was founded by Web 2.0 Summit creator John Battelle. | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Federated Media | | |
NAME:
| Find and Convert
| DESCRIPTION:
| We "find and convert" new business opportunities on the web through SEO, SEM and Social Media Strategies. We serve mostly B2B clients nationwide. | LOCATION:
| Based in Tampa, FL
| | COMPANY URL: | Find & Convert
| | |
NAME:
| FutureWorks | DESCRIPTION:
| FutureWorks is an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley and San Francisco founded by Brian Solis. FutureWorks fuses "best of breed" public relations, social media, new media and conversational marketing. FW's objectives are simple - become an integrated partner with our clients; provide aggressive outbound PR support; secure positive coverage through our influence programs that drive presence, conversations, traffic, and new customers; participate on a daily basis across the social landscape, and most importantly, build long-term relationships. | LOCATION:
| Based in Sunnyvale, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | FutureWorks
| | |
NAME:
| Headshift
| DESCRIPTION:
| Headshift has over 5 years' experience in designing, implementing and growing social computing solutions for knowledge intensive firms, government and third sector organisations, media companies, and brands. We passionately believe in the ability of social computing to transform the way we do business. | LOCATION:
| London, and also based in New York, Zurich, Sydney | | COMPANY URL: | Headshift
| | |
NAME:
| hMethod
| DESCRIPTION:
| We build stuff using social technology - software (usually) that brings people together. Mostly we don't care what the tools are as much as how well they work for a problem we're trying to solve. Could be Python or Java or Ruby or it could just be a whiteboard and box of doughnuts.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Minneapolis, MN, US
| | COMPANY URL: | hMethod
| | |
NAME:
| Ignite Social Media
| DESCRIPTION:
| "A social media agency–a new breed of company that specializes in helping corporations use social media tools, sites and applications to increase their connection with customers and prospects." President Jim Tobin leads the team. | LOCATION:
| Based in Cary, North Carolina | | COMPANY URL: | Ignite Social Media | | |
NAME:
| Impact Interactions
| DESCRIPTION:
| Impact Interactions provides global organizations such as Cisco, SAP, NetApp, AARP, ACS, NEA, and others with online community consulting and moderation services. Founded in 2003, Impact Interactions has developed many of the best practices used to successfully implement and manage online communties and social networks for large organizations. | LOCATION:
| Based in Stevensville, MD
| | COMPANY URL: | Impact Interactions | | |
NAME:
| Ion Corporation
| DESCRIPTION:
| "Specializes in new communication tools like social interactive websites and corporate blogs that allow companies to connect authentically with their employees, clients, customers and other audiences."
| LOCATION:
| Based in San Jose, California | | COMPANY URL: | Ion Corporation | | |
NAME:
| Jess3 | DESCRIPTION:
| A creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and social media PR."
| LOCATION:
| Based in Washington DC and McLean, VA | | COMPANY URL: | Jess3 | | |
NAME:
| Lava Row
| DESCRIPTION:
| Midwest-based social media firm with emphasis on education, marketing strategy, workshops and best practices coaching for companies and organizations of all shapes and sizes. | LOCATION:
| Based in Des Moines, Iowa
| | COMPANY URL: | Lava Row | | |
NAME:
| Leader Networks
| DESCRIPTION:
| Leader Networks is a strategic research and consulting firm that specializes in helping clients harness the power of new digital rules and tools to drive measurable business benefits from social media and social leadership. We work with companies to create the strategy for online communities and professional networks, create rewarding business models, and shape the operational best practice and user engagement to help companies launch and grow a business focused online community or professional network. | LOCATION:
| Based in Belmont, MA
| | COMPANY URL: | Leader Networks
| | |
NAME:
| LiveWorld
| DESCRIPTION:
| LiveWorld is a social media marketing agency and technology provider that helps Fortune 1000 companies use the power of social networking and online communities to build their brands and their business.
| LOCATION:
| Based in San Jose, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | LiveWorld | | |
NAME:
| Lodestone Social Media
| DESCRIPTION:
| The Agency for the Social Age of Marketing. Our sole purpose is to develop a magnetic brand attraction, a relationship between brands and consumers. Through our ‘Loded Compass’ brand engagement process and "Loded Products" we magnetize your brand.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Austin, TX
| | COMPANY URL: | Lodestone Social Media | | |
NAME:
| Mediasmith
| DESCRIPTION:
| Mediasmith is a recognized leader in digital media planning and buying. We specialize in the integration of traditional and digital media, media consulting, Search, and emerging media technologies. | LOCATION:
| Based in San Francisco
| | COMPANY URL: | Mediasmith | | |
NAME:
| METZ
| DESCRIPTION:
| METZ specializes in devising social web strategies for travel, lifestyle and consumer-packaged goods brands, covering everything from basic social web objectives (“listening”, talking”) and complex strategies (“energizing”, “co-innovating”) to budget, opportunity costs, timelines, metrics and business development needs. METZ is able to make the business development process quick and simple for clients with its close, strategic partnerships with big-name social web and mobile web brands.
Additionally, METZ creates holistic social web analytics models to ensure that social web analytics are tied to business outcomes, qualitative assessment and behavioral data (clickstream measurements). | LOCATION:
| Based in San Francisco Bay Area
| | COMPANY URL: | METZ | | |
NAME:
| theMIX Agency
| DESCRIPTION:
| A influential marketing firm based in San Francisco. | LOCATION:
| Based in San Francisco
| | COMPANY URL: | theMIX Agency | | |
NAME:
| Mueller & Co.
| DESCRIPTION:
| My Team and I help CEO’s and their Companies to internalize social media so company values and messages become ingrained into the company culture and conveyed to customers through every touch point.
We also help on entrepreneurs to find their customers by differentiating their products, services, and companies.
Mueller and Co. consists of leading professionals who organize to meet the specific needs of our clients. Our leaders specialize in Branding, Communications, Social Media, Video, SEO, SEM, SMM. | LOCATION:
| Based in Santa Cruz, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Mueller & Co.
| | |
NAME:
| Nielsen BuzzMetrics
| DESCRIPTION:
| The monitoring company also provides consulting services, "Nielsen BuzzMetrics goes beyond technology and technical services to provide clients with the consulting services and insights that they need to turn data into actionable, business intelligence." | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Nielsen BuzzMetrics | | |
NAME:
| Pandemic Labs
| DESCRIPTION:
| Pandemic Labs is the social media agency of record for many Fortune 500 clients. We focus on strategy and execution, from the technical to the creative. | LOCATION:
| Based in Boston, MA
| | COMPANY URL: | Pandemic Labs
| | |
NAME:
| Parnassus Group
| DESCRIPTION:
| "A social media consultancy...We work with companies on a variety of services, ranging from the specifics of blogger engagement to the broad mapping of social media strategy." Runs the Blog Business Summit and also has Jason Preston (blog) on the team. | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Parnassus Group | | |
NAME:
| Pistachio Consulting
| DESCRIPTION:
| Pistachio Consulting delivers microsharing and social media strategies to improve both your company’s operations and customer engagement. We provide the insight and know-how into the latest tools and technologies that are applicable to your business and your message, along with soup-to-nuts program development and advisement. | LOCATION:
| Based in Boston, MA
| | COMPANY URL: | Pistachio Consulting
| | |
NAME:
| Rebel Industries
| DESCRIPTION:
| Rebel Industries puts clients face-to-face with the people they want to speak to most. We plan and activate grassroots marketing that integrates strategy with experiential and social media to impact urban, youth, affluent, and other nice audiences. | LOCATION:
| Based in Los Angeles, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Rebel Industries
| | |
NAME:
| Room 214
| DESCRIPTION:
| Room 214 was founded in 2004 with an initial focus on blog installs, syndicating press room development and search marketing. Today, the Boulder-based agency consists of social media engineers and analysts dedicated to helping companies leverage social networking, influencer identification, word of mouth strategy, business intelligence tools, and social applications development. | LOCATION:
| Based in Boulder, CO
| | COMPANY URL: | Room 214
| | |
NAME:
| Scout
| DESCRIPTION:
| Blog marketing service that enables companies to combine their online public relations, SEO and blogging efforts." Focused primarily on setting up and running blogs for businesses. It is a part of search marketing agency Backbone Media.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Waltham, MA | | COMPANY URL: | Scout | | |
NAME:
| Six Apart | DESCRIPTION:
| The blogging and social media platform company also offers services to companies, provided primarily through their Appreciative acquisition. Anil Dash (blog) is part of the team. | LOCATION:
|
| | COMPANY URL: | Six Apart | | |
NAME:
| The Social Den
| DESCRIPTION:
| Creative social media marketing agency located in Bozeman, MT. The Social Den specializes in building communities, increasing viral traffic, creating sales leads through real relationships, and social media monitoring services. | LOCATION:
| Based in Bozeman, MT
| | COMPANY URL: | The Social Den
| | |
NAME:
| Social Gastronomy
| DESCRIPTION:
| Social Gastronomy℠ is a specialized Enterprise Social Management practice that enables organizations to leverage social media for marketing, customer relationships, operations, employee engagement, and partner management.
Our Social Cookbook℠ is a standardized methodology that enables organizations to systematically identify market and business opportunities, validate the business case, manage technology selection, and facilitate social media adoption; all in support of business objectives.
Social Gastronomy℠ has the ability to augment existing engagements with our staff of social media specialists with specific expertise in social marketing evangelism and measurement; online community design, development, adoption, moderation, and measurement; as well as Web 2.0 application product management and integration. | LOCATION:
| Based in Atlanta, GA
| | COMPANY URL: | Social Gastronomy | | |
NAME:
| Social Target | DESCRIPTION:
| "Social Target provides research and consulting focused on helping companies establish social media intelligence capabilities and cross-functional management practices." Run by Nathan Gilliatt (blog), the firm conducts research and strategy consulting for companies | LOCATION:
| Based in North Carolina | | COMPANY URL: | Social Target | | |
NAME:
| Socialbomb | DESCRIPTION:
| Every brand manager wants to build social apps that will kickstart conversations across the world's Facebook pages, Twitter streams and iPhones. Socialbomb helps developers and creatives build those apps. We provide a single API that communicates with many social networks at once, so developers can spend their time on the core application instead of programing for each individual service. | LOCATION:
| Based in New York, NY
| | COMPANY URL: | Socialbomb | | |
NAME:
| Socialmedia.biz | DESCRIPTION:
| Since 2005 our nationwide team has worked to integrate social media into the marketing mix and business processes of major brands. Our differentiator: Experience in measuring real-world results. | LOCATION:
| Based in San Francisco, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Socialmedia.biz | | |
NAME:
| Socialscape | DESCRIPTION:
| There have never been so many ways for so many people to say so much about your company, your products and your competition. Socialscape tracks and analyzes all of that talk and turns it into actionable information that can improve your brand, your business, your customer relationships. | LOCATION:
| Based in New York, NY
| | COMPANY URL: | Socialscape | | |
NAME:
| SOCIALtality
| DESCRIPTION:
| SOCIALtalityTM is a metric to measure a company's performance in the social web using sophisticated analytics to track conversion and mine social intelligence so that you can easily understand how to harness the power of social media and measure your ROI. | LOCATION:
| Based in Newburyport, MA
| | COMPANY URL: | SOCIALtality | | |
NAME:
| SPECK Media
| DESCRIPTION:
| SPECK Media specializes in helping global organizations find strategic approaches to social media and social networking.
Our strategies help organizations create relevant and profitable experiences via social media. There's nothing more important than the "story" and SPECK Media delivers just that.
We approach social media from a strategic viewpoint.
What does that mean? It means we are a strategic design firm. SPECK Media is comprised of strategic minded individuals that have backgrounds in: User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Graphic Design, Business Strategy, Organizational Management, and Technology.
We provide clients with services around social media and social networking. | LOCATION:
| Based in Chicago, IL
| | COMPANY URL: | SPECK Media
| | |
NAME:
| Spring Creek Group | DESCRIPTION:
| Spring Creek Group is a 20 person Social Media Marketing Agency in Seattle, WA.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Seattle, WA
| | COMPANY URL: | Spring Creek Group | | |
NAME:
| Sprout | DESCRIPTION:
| Sprout develops industry-leading software solutions for creating rich content for widgets, ads and social media applications.
| LOCATION:
| Based in San Francisco, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Sprout | | |
NAME:
| Starling Media Services, Inc.
| DESCRIPTION:
| A boutique marketing and media planning/buying firm that works with all forms of media, including social media. We are leading the social media strategy for the California Governor's Conference for Small Business, identifying priorities and preferences for all 3.6 million small businesses doing business in the state.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Shingle Springs, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Starling Media Services, Inc.
| | |
NAME:
| TeamReid GP | DESCRIPTION:
| TeamReid GP is a consulting company. The Principals are researchers and authors of a series of articles on social software for business. We focus on Social Software. We help companies perform "Social Software Readiness Assessment" for both employees and customers. Building on the assessment, we create low-cost high-impact recommendations. We then help evaluate vendors, oversee software implementation, assess the impact and refine if needed. We also deliver sales, business development, and marketing expertise to early and middle stage technology companies.
| LOCATION:
| Based in Los Angeles, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | TeamReid GP | | |
NAME:
| Textura Design | DESCRIPTION:
| "Creative, social media, strategies". DL Byron's (blog) consulting business. Best known for his work setting up blogs for Intel and Boeing. Focused primarily on helping companies with their enterprise blogs. | LOCATION:
| Based in Seattle | | COMPANY URL: | Textura Design | | |
NAME:
| theKbuzz | DESCRIPTION:
| theKbuzz is a Word of Mouth and Social Media Marketing firm and we build "community" for our clients. We're dedicated to amplifying and accelerating positive conversation around your brand, and appropriately handling negative feedback, too. We build communities on popular social networks where your consumers are spending a majority of their time. We then engage with your community through listening, communicating and innovative interactions. | LOCATION:
| Based in New York, NY
| | COMPANY URL: | theKbuzz | | |
NAME:
| Thought Labs | DESCRIPTION:
| Thought Labs is an experienced full-service social media company providing strategy, planning and execution for companies looking to get started with or improve their use of social media as an effective means of reaching their target consumers. | LOCATION:
| Based in North Andover, MA | | COMPANY URL: | Thought Labs | | |
NAME:
| Trustworthy | DESCRIPTION:
| Trustworthy teams up with companies to listen and respond to customers in blogs, Twitter, and other social media, helping them become more transparent and authentic. | LOCATION:
| United States
| | COMPANY URL: | Trustworthy | | |
NAME:
| Vestor Logic LLC
| DESCRIPTION:
| Vestor Logic consults organizations in all industries with the formulation and management of a broad social media strategy. We provide guidance for the creation and integration of social media profiles, strategy formulation and review, campaign management and social media training. | LOCATION:
| Based in Las Vegas, NV
| | COMPANY URL: | Vestor Logic LLC
| | |
NAME:
| Walt & Company Communications
| DESCRIPTION:
| Tech PR & Social Media Communications -- Walt & Company is a innovative PR firm that generates high-impact market awareness for enterprise tech, consumer tech, green IT, and financial services organizations. Our experienced PR professionals combine unparalleled industry acumen, tech PR expertise and social media skills to advance our clients’ business objectives and help them build and sustain positive brand visibility. | LOCATION:
| Based in Campbell, CA
| | COMPANY URL: | Walt & Company Communications
| | |
NAME:
| whatsnextonline.com | DESCRIPTION:
| B.L. Ochman heads the creative team of whatsnextonline.com, which has created major ROI-driven social media campaigns since 2004 for companies including Cendant, IBM, American Greetings, stacksandstacks.com, Simon & Schuster, and several others. | LOCATION:
| Based in New York/NY/USA | | COMPANY URL: | whatsnextonline.com | | |
NAME:
| YDOP
| DESCRIPTION:
| Comprehensive social media strategy guidance to mid-size companies, colleges, nonprofits, and music stores. Integrated approach with attention to SEO, Web design, and pay-per-click advertising. | LOCATION:
| Based in Lancaster, PA
| | COMPANY URL: | YDOP
| | |
NAME:
| Zeta Interactive
| DESCRIPTION:
| Helps today’s marketers realize the full potential of the Internet to build brands, increase sales, improve processes, and reduce costs.
| LOCATION:
| Based in New York, NY
| | COMPANY URL: | Zeta Interactive
| | |
NAME:
| Zocala Group
| DESCRIPTION:
| "Creating sustainable word of mouth and brand evangelists". Focuses on "energizing" influentials. | LOCATION:
| Based in Chicago | | COMPANY URL: | Zocala Group | | | |