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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. Interns are ‘liking’ pages on facebook while the events coordinator is Tweeting about the trade show giveaway at their booth. What used to be clear roles (i.e. United States License.

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The Opposite of Advertising « The Effective Marketer

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Banco Hipotecario’s facebook page has over 14,000 fans and was the centerpiece of their second phase of the campaign. After being picked up by local media and sports commentators, fans raved about the new jersey. They asked fans to vote on a phrase to be printed on the shirt that would evoke how the fans feel about their beloved team.

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The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

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Marketers also need to work on their justifications and their business cases to make senior management understand why a technology can help the company especially when Facebook, Twitter, and other channels are still a mystery for most corporate executives. United States License. United States License.

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

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The duck has 165,000 facebook fans in the US. Here are some highlights of the Aflac duck’s impact: First year after the duck’s introduction, sales were up by 29%. Name recognition increased 67% after two years of running the commercials. Today the name recognition is 90%. How do you create a successful brand mascot? United States License.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% Zenith Optimedia pretty much agrees: its October 2008 report shows U.S. in 2009 to 8% in 2014.

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The Networker's Dream

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This really cool tool I read about on Laura Ramos’ blog , shows the path between you and your desired target. By gathering information from your LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo, Gmail (not Hotmail, mind you), and other social media sites you belong, it maps out your connections and the connections of your connections.

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

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Just as a sidenote, I thought ironic the fact that for a “digital marketing conference&# that focused on social media (blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook, etc.) This entry was posted on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pm and is filed under Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy , Social Media , Uncategorized.