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How R/GA’s Twitter Account Became the Best Follow in Marketing

Contently

They’re on Twitter because everyone says they’re supposed to be there. That’s what makes the R/GA Twitter account worth following on a daily basis. Over the last decade, it’s slowly hit the sweet spot of brands on Twitter: able to poke fun at an industry (and itself) without being too snide, silly, or stupid.

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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity

Twitter emerged at the SXSW conference in March 2007. The phase “social media marketing” first appeared in searches back in March 2007, but the first spike in interest came in January 2009, when search volume more than doubled from the previous month. of marketing budgets in 2009 to 11.7% 89% of U.S. eMarketer ).

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Best Email Marketing Strategies and Tactics of 2009

Webbiquity

After nearly 20 years, it may not seem as sexy as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but used properly, it’s a proven medium that generates cost-effective results. MarketingSherpa’s 2009 Email Awards Gallery: Get Inspired by These Exceptional Campaigns by MarketingSherpa. How has email marketing changed in the last few years?

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. How are people actually spending their time online? Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. of the total.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? But, for about 99.999999% of the world, Twitter usage is not an end, it’s a means to an end. Your Twitter goals may vary. 53% of Twitter users never tweet ).

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Twitter Starts Testing Features for Businesses. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. Internet Ad spending goes down in Q309. Linkedin and Twitter integrate. Twitter creates Twitter Lists.

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Can you spend 4 minutes reading this post?

Exo B2B

We’ve been blogging since 2009 and in these immemorial times, best practices dictated short posts of about 600 words, divided up into roughly 60 words per paragraph, so a bit less than a dozen of those, with subtitles, images or videos and many hyperlinks, and keywords. I also did some Twitter research.