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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating. An example of this is setting up your Twitter updates to automatically feed into your Facebook company page. Automation encourages publishers to over communicate.

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How to Maintain Great Content Curation

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Don’t Automate. When you have a site or service that seems perfectly relevant to your topic, it might be tempting to grab everything that it posts by RSS or another automated tool. Are they active on Facebook? Be on Facebook. Not only is it the right thing to do ethically, but it keeps you from making enemies needlessly.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent. What used to be clear roles (i.e.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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Not of basic marketing concepts like the 4 P’s , advertising , or branding but their utmost ignorance of modern marketing tactics and tools like webinars, marketing automation, and even CRM software. Social Media : just because you use Twitter and Facebook in school, it doesn’t mean you really know how to use it for marketing.

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The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

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Companies need to be able to track and measure customer interactions from a reliable source and that has driven a lot of the recent interest in Marketing Automation and Customer Intelligence technologies. The goal is to make use of cross channel marketing strategies to target the customer at the right moment and influence purchase decisions.

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What My Paper Route Taught Me about Content Marketing

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Relying on automated feeds to push content rather than building genuine social media connections. Because people are habitual, they hang out on Facebook, Twitter and other networks at fairly regular times throughout the day. Today, if you try to skip steps or gloss over them, you’ll similarly be punished. Social Sharing.

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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.