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How to Create an Effective Social Media Content Strategy

Valasys

In an era of the Internet of Things (IoT), social media marketing (SMM) is the greatest boon to marketers. Thus, undeniably, a winning social media content strategy holds the power to convert more followers into leads. alt- Popularity of several social media platforms in the USA). Introduction. Image Source: Sprout Social.

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How to Cultivate a Data-Driven Marketing Team

Hubspot

Data can help you be a much more successful, analytical marketer who makes decisions based on facts rather than hunches. When I first started working at HubSpot, I'll admit I wasn't the most analytically-minded person. Put the right analytics in place. and there, and blog analytics hanging out in an entirely different place.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. You can find a list of more than 150 social media monitoring tools here or close to 200 here , but—that can seem overwhelming.

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The Ultimate User-Generated Content Guide

Sprout Social

One of the better avenues to help personalize your brand is social media. But effectively humanizing your brand makes you appear more like another friend in a consumer’s social media network, instead of an in-your-face ad. Businesses then use this content on their website or social media networks to promote their brand.

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Venntive Adds Communities to Small Business Marketing Automation and CRM

Customer Experience Matrix

It also includes full Web site management and social media monitoring and posting, but those are natural extensions for sales and marketing. Members can share discussion forums and Wikis and be assigned rights such as access to specified information about each other. So far pretty normal. The Web site builder is much more robust.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. What really impresses me is that Techrigy is a serious social media monitoring solution.

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Day Software Acquisition Adds Some Marketing Features to Adobe, But Gaps Remain

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Adobe added Web content management, digital asset management and social media features to its arsenal when it purchased Day Software last month. Adobe was already a major force in Web development through its Dreamweaver, Flash and ColdFusion products, not to mention Omniture for Web analytics. publishing.