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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

But with Facebook becoming the place you just have to be for businesses of all sizes, a little marketing know-how comes in handy. When we look at what platforms our small business customers are using for social media marketing, 94% of them are on Facebook,” Schmulen said. That’s the herd mentality at work. Tip #3: Keep it simple.

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

In my work with B2B organizations, the question of how to use Facebook is invariably front and center. This Is despite the fact that numerous surveys have shown that Facebook is one of the least effective social networks for B2B marketing. Storage maker EMC makes particularly good use of Facebook’s “Welcome&# page.

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

Continuing on my post from two weeks ago about my favorite PC productivity tools, here’s another list of goodies. You can even create collages like the one I use for my Twitter page background. Tweetdeck for Twitter is one. Most are free, all are bargains. Photo/video. For photo editing, though, I like Zoner PhotoStudio.

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. A good rule of thumb is to make about 90% of your contributions relevant to your audience’s needs, regardless of whether they promote your products or company. Each social network has a different culture and style.

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Groupon Digs the Hole Deeper

Paul Gillin

I haven’t conducted a scientific analysis, but in monitoring the mainstream media coverage as well as the chatter on Twitter and Facebook today, it appeared to me that commentary was running about 80% negative on the campaign. Deforestation is a great tie-in to product discounts.

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Marketing firm piggybacks on March Madness for fun social media “bracket”

Paul Gillin

Big sports events are a great opportunity to show off your products and services, particularly if you can apply them to the combatants on the field. The company decided to show off its social media savvy by analyzing the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts of each March Madness team to see how they did with social media engagement.

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Social Marketing Wisdom From a True Practitioner

Paul Gillin

–Nearly 100% of interactions around content posted to Facebook and Twitter occurs during the first 10 days, but only 34% of interactions around YouTube and WordPress content happens during that time. In addition to statistics like these, Lewis offers practical advice buttressed by concrete examples.