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JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Employee/Employer Social Media Conflicts – What should an employer do when they find offending content?

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JUNE 2, 2010

Either way, it would make me double-check how I have the privacy settings set for photos on my Facebook page. The last thing I need is a dressing room photo of me modeling Diesel brand fat pants hitting the public News Feed on Facebook. But the default view will be the opinions of your Facebook friends.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

“ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. “ Your Content Stinks! Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here.

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MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Haven’t you?

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MARCH 10, 2010

It’s Time for Real-Time The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life [link] Innovate AZ Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook: I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chroni… [link] [link] Innovate AZ Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook: I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chroni… (..)

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Sample tactics include writing blog posts, sending promotional tweets, creating and posting videos, and blog commenting. Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. They tend to be seen as less-immediate, and somehow require a more solid plan with less flexibility.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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JULY 28, 2010

Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Ask your customers directly.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

If you create consistently good content, and promote it vigorously, your blog should eventually succeed. That’s what a lot of multi-author corporate blogs feel like, so is it any wonder that there aren’t many subscribers? Blogging success is a slow march, not a mad dash.

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JUNE 24, 2010

You’re thinking that I’m… [link] #marketing [link] Santi Chacon 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook. The truly believe in the products they promote. Relationships. great points.

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APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Many brands these days use social media to promote themselves and to reach out to their target audience. link] [link] Mary Hey Jason, An interesting post about Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. When creating and promoting social content, include specific, relevant keywords and search phrases wherever possible. Take your top keywords (including your company name, product name, etc.)

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Paid Content Ad Building Brand Identity Branding 146

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have?

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JUNE 11, 2010

We’ll be rolling out a Facebook page so that as many folks as possible can begin interacting around the issues covered in the book. We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. Can't wait to see you on Facebook!

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APRIL 14, 2010

The best – and most effective – social media programs aren’t based on promotions and message distribution. Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose? Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose? Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose? link] Dave Ryan Great Post.

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 2, 2020

A social media manager is responsible for your brand's social media activities that include social media planning, automation, advertising, content creation, publishing, and analytics. Social media marketing is an important marketing function that includes a lot of activities on a daily basis. Analytical Thinking.

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MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. I have a great example: One that Facebook killed because it wasn't in line with their mass media-based (impressions and “size of network&# used to create it) values system. It’s just more authentic and believable that way.

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FAQ Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Social Media 139

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers. It’s an information annuity that can’t be replicated elsewhere.

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Paid Content Content Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 125

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Most blogs aren’t visually aggressive enough in the promotion of RSS, and very few do a good job at emphasizing the opportunity to subscribe via email (as 40% of C&C subscribers do). Jacob Morgan does a nice job with this, promoting his book, events, and other resources on the right side of his excellent blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 7, 2015

Strategic planning can also be supported by a rich treasury of simulation and optimization techniques that are very familiar to AI developers. Yet the closest I can find to strategic planning is optimization of media plans by media mix model vendors like MMA , Analytic Partners , Nielsen and IRI.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. What about Baskin Robbins – with a promotion offering free samples (and extra napkins)?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Individuals not leaving a comment to engage in a conversation, but simply to promote their own links or to chest-thump. Facebook has some great banter with the wall posts and status updates, but it’s more chatty than conversational and it’s not an open/public environment. That’s not a conversation.

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MARCH 22, 2010

This program is being produced by Mike Stelzner, who runs the successful Social Media Examiner site (where I write monthly). I hope you’ll consider registering for the Social Media Success Summit, and if you do, please use and promote this link ( [link] ) – if you do, I’ll make a few bucks.

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Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics Social Media Advertising Agencies 108

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ThinkGeek has a robust involvement in social media, with over 68,000 followers on Twitter , 50,000 fans on Facebook and over 11,000 subscribers to their channel on YouTube , which features company-posted videos demonstrating items like their proximity-meter t-shirts and fake-blood-filled, realistically gummy heart for Valentine’s Day.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

The mere act of opting-in is an expression of interest in your products and services, so it stands to reason that relevant product or service promotions to this audience would stimulate sales. The Wall Street Journal said email’s era had ended thanks to Facebook. Facebook’s COO said that email was probably going away.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Second, the social media tools and destinations will inevitably change, but considering 83% of online Americans are active in social media, and there are 425 million people with Facebook accounts, I think we’re past the lava lamp stage. link] [link] Tin Hang Liu RT @jaybaer Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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JULY 9, 2010

Instead of just handing off a product and hoping the influencers said good things, they went out of their way to make us feel important, and I think that will deffinitly go over well when any of us say anything about the promotion. It doesn’t get any more authentic of an experience than that.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Couldn’t you “promote&# some of them, and have them help you monitor and respond to blog posts, create Facebook status updates, and so forth? the QA portion of r… [link] [link] Innovate AZ Nobody Said Social Media Was Easy: Social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive.In

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

A little more streamlined, but I think that no matter how much content you build a day, it's always good to have the content providers think about who their audience is and how it should be promoted! today’s Web, buying… [link] #marketing [link] Jim Weldon Why You Should Use a Content Rationale Report: Little is the new big.On

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JUNE 16, 2010

And masses of Facebook fans or Twitter followers aren’t enough either. Ditch Experimentation and Plan Instead The real social media success stories aren’t arising out of tactical experimentation with Twitter and Facebook. Whether B2B or B2C, customers are buying based on what they need.

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