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Why Social Media Really Matters

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: marketing has shifted steadily over time from passive to active consumer engagement. Social media is the latest stage in this evolution. Marketers need to master new skills at each stage; as they do, advertising budgets will shift to take advantage of the new medium's increased effectiveness. search marketing.

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Engagement is Everything: Our Takeaways from Marketing Nation 2015

Vidyard

Marketo’s Marketing Nation Summit is like starter’s pistol for marketers in Q2. Spring has sprung, and thousands of marketers descended on San Francisco to learn from one another, share some drinks at the annual gala, and discover new technologies to take their marketing to the next level. Channels are dead.

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Social Media Hierarchy of Needs - Best Practices for ROI Success

The ROI Guy

From our social media ROI studies, analyzing the investment, popularity, practices and results of social media marketing for the Fortune 500, and select small / medium companies, a key indicator to social media ROI success was level of engagement. the quantified return on investment (ROI) from social marketing efforts.

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So you wanna make a viral video?

Vidyard

Whether it be the Gangnam Style music video, Charlie visits the dentist or a super bowl commercial, the media and those of us at home love getting behind these videos to watch, discuss and share awesome content. It is for this reason that I hear so many marketers talk about creating the next viral video. But you are a marketer.

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34 (of the) Best Google+ Tips, Tactics and Guides of 2011

Webbiquity

It’s Google’s latest attempt at social media, and they finally got it right. It’s mostly a playground for engineers and marketers. It’s “the linchpin of Google’s plan to own the entire internet” (see below for the source of that quote). It’s appealing, but too late.

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Klout and the Reality of Return on Influence

Convince & Convert

There was a reason why nobody in social media has written a book about the nature of influence. We have very much in our social media bubble this culture of “I’ll scratch your back and you scratch mine.” Maybe Narrowcasting Trumps Broadcasting. Jay: I devoured it. We talked about that a little bit for the book.

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42 Digital Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2020

Single Grain

This epic list article has been updated to include 20 more digital marketing trends to help you get ready for next year! At one time, artificial intelligence, data-driven marketing and voice search engine optimization (VSEO) were ambitious concepts bordering on the ridiculous. Dive Deeper: AI Trends in Marketing for 2019 [Infographic].