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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

Instead of just counting the number of Facebook “likes” you accrue – which signifies nothing more than digital bumper stickering, instead track how often your fans click “like” and comment upon the status updates you post. Are tweets more important than Facebook shares? Should you care more about Digg submission than about comments?

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity

Social Media Press Releases and Blogger Outreach. PR pros shouldn’t rely solely on Google’s tool when developing an outreach list, but it’s a good one to add to their arsenal. Share this on Facebook. Interactive PR Guides, Tips and Tools. The Art of Creating a Social Media Press Release by Socialfish.

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14 Pro Tips for Running a Successful Business

Hubspot

We're losing more than we're gaining for the first time since those statistics have been tracked, and the crossover coincided with the recession of 2007-2009. Census Bureau, the overall number of business applications began to recover in late 2009 and has been trending up for the past ten years. Source: Capterra. According to the U.S.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

She explains how to use tactics like blogger outreach, social networking and social news marketing to create engagement with prospects and move them toward your solutions. While most of the sites on the list are hardly surprising (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), there are a few unexpected results, like Tagged at #6 and Yuku at #16.

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Twitter Blurs the Line: Sorting Out Branding, Adv/PR and Marketing Opportunities

B2B Marketing Savvy

Still, content… management… and metrics drive the accountability and Twitter, Facebook and the like can be no different. An August 2009 study was just released which categorized a sample of 2000 tweets as falling into the following categories: News, Self-Promotion, Spam, Conversational, Pass-Along Value, and Pointless Babble.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%. population.

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Best of 2009: Social Media Marketing, Part 1

Webbiquity

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that “ profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. &#.