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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Community blogging sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Form communities and discuss relevant news within them.

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B2B Marketers Fate Rests in the Hands of a Few

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Customer Service is the New Marketing Zappos was founded in 1999 and sold to Amazon for. Tags: Advertising Branding Communications Communities Customer Lead Generation Loyalty Marketing Strategy. The Bottom Line – The Fate of B2B Companies Rests in the hands of Just a Few People! Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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5 Proven Strategies for B2B Social Media Marketing

Online Marketing Institute

The following five case studies lend insight into how B2B marketers can use social media to generate leads, create specialized communities, improve SEO, become knowledge sources, and strengthen marketing campaigns. The team focused on creating communities for NYC professionals, which resulted in a @RegusNYC Twitter feed and a Facebook Page.

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Should You Outsource Your Social Media Efforts?

Online Marketing Institute

At the same time, we want to make sure that we’re building a thriving community, engaging customers and broadening awareness of our products,&# says Trisha Layton, marketing coordinator at PROBAR.

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What the Future Holds for B2B Social Media Marketing

Online Marketing Institute

B2C and B2B companies were just as likely to be monitoring user reviews (B2B: 49%, B2C: 51%) and manage a community dedicated to customers (B2B: 49%, B2C: 51%). One of the only areas where B2C was more active than B2B in social media was advertising on social networks (B2B: 42%, B2C: 54%). Her example was the PayPal Developer platform.

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90 Tips to Make Your Blog Rock

Online Marketing Institute

Then distribute the ebook on the Amazon Kindle Store and Apple iBookStore. Take each post and post it on the New Digg (20 million visitors a month), it is quick and easy to do and will take you only a minute or two (it involves copying the URL and pasting it to Digg, add the headline and choose the section then hit 62.

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Full Stack Experimentation: A Comprehensive Guide

Convert

Case in point: Digg. Pros: Integrates with 90+ 3rd party tools Fully privacy compliant: no personal data is ever stored Offers advanced targeting and segmentation Excellent support team Con: The $99/mo community plan has support limitations Source 2. You can see this working out for companies like Netflix, eBay, Amazon, and Google.