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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity

Marketers follow other marketers, PR pros hang with other PR pros, engineers interact with other engineers. YouTube reaches 36% of all business decision makers (more than 10 times the figure for Forbes.com). Gone are the days of conducting expensive surveys and focus groups to find out what your prospects are thinking.

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Are Personas Just a Nicer Word for Stereotypes?

Content Marketing Institute

After conducting a competitive assessment and focus groups, our team determined the buyer persona was an African-American woman with a master’s degree, promoted into a senior role within the last five years. An example of a good buyer persona is this commercial for Beats by Dre, featuring YouTube star Liza Koshy.

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How Size Matters in the Social Media ROI Debate

Convince & Convert

Social media taps into the causal swirl of the fish pond, but if an executive across the table says he’ll need to see ‘solid ROI on that’ he’s might as well be asking to do a focus group with a group of golden carp. Big Brands and Social Media: The Virtuous Circle. Your response should be simple.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The Facebook page has a not-too-shabby 13,000+ fans, but most of the YouTube videos have just a few dozen views. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook. The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr).

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How to measure 5 popular social media channels

Online Marketing Institute

YouTube and video sites More than just a fun place to see kids hurt themselves on bikes or watch cute pet tricks, YouTube is now a key tool in any marketing campaign. Facebook Insights can help you here. How much did you spend on a Facebook ad and how did click-throughs and new sales and customers compare?

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Impact of Super Bowl Ads on Social Media [New Data]

Hubspot

Pundits, critics and focus groups barely let the confetti settle before they gave their verdicts (If you want to see the ads go to either USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter or YouTube Ad Blitz ). YouTube subscribers, video views and channel views. At $100,000 a second, this is the outbound marketing game that really matters.

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Impact of Super Bowl Ads on the Social Media [New Data]

Hubspot

Pundits, critics and focus groups barely let the confetti settle before they gave their verdicts (If you want to see the ads go to either USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter or YouTube Ad Blitz ). YouTube subscribers, video views and channel views. At $100,000 a second, this is the outbound marketing game that really matters.