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After running Facebook Pages for restaurants since the day Pages were released by Facebook, we’ve compiled our first volume of tips into a DVD and Booklet. We call it From Likes to Lunches, and we couldn’t be more excited.
Boom’s main service of Social Media management, focuses on putting our clients on autopilot. We tak [...]

On December 16th, boom celebrated our 3rd birthday. In social media years, that’s over 581 years old. We haven’t spent much of that time finding new clients. We’ve been working hard on new technologies and strategies which we’ve been able to test for months and months. We’ve come out of it with a comprehensiv [...]

Facebook is preparing it’s answer to Groupon with “Deals”. St. Louis is one of 5 test markets. As Facebook employees were charged with finding the best run pages to include in the initial launch of the service. Both The Highlands Brewing Company and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard were selected as exemplary Facebook pages whic [...]

SAINT LOUIS, Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2011 — boom. reactive., a St. Louis based social media management company, has partnered with five-time Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Evander Holyfieldʼs upcoming reality show. Boom will be advising and assisting the boxerʼs social media execution for the program.
Shaun Hautly, a “Catalyst” at b [...]

In June, boom began helping St. Louis Dessert favorite, Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, with the strategy and execution of their online presence.
Prior to boom’s involvement, there was no ‘official’ page, but a scattered fan base on unofficial (and misspelled) pages. Boom created a strategy which involves giveaways, in-store [...]

More and more companies are beginning to offer Facebook management for their clients. However, boom has been offering Facebook Fan Page management since Fan Pages were first introduced. We’ve got a lot of experience.
One of the first things that an inexperienced company will offer is some blanket price and a promise of “2-3 po [...]

On Friday, online publication the St. Louis Beacon wrote a feature on Boom’s office space, Saint Louis Coworking. In the piece, Shaun is interviewed about the space and talks a bit about Boom as well. Here is an excerpt from the piece:
Hautly, the Saint Louis Coworking regular, has already brought in business to his new office. He s [...]

Today is a very special day for Boom Reactive. Our business is now 24 months old. We’ve celebrated by hanging our new sign in our lovely office overlooking downtown St. Louis. We look forward to making the most out of our third year and are planning big things for the future. Look forward to another Labs video to be posted later thi [...]

Boom has spent a portion of the day focusing on information for new clients. We’ve started recording our “Science of Social Media” video series. These videos will help inform viewers about the strengths and weaknesses of Social Media. We will explain things like How to do Social Media WRONG, text vs video, email marketin [...]