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How to measure influence in social media marketing

Chris Koch

Social media present us as individuals seeking status within a community, which is something that humans have been working at since our days as monkeys. The only difference between us and the monkeys is that we usually remember to eat while we watch the Oscars or check our Twitter follower counts.

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Stop doing PR. Start doing visibility.

Chris Koch

Those people may receive media training, presentation and speaking training, etc. Get them twittering. Twitter’s viral relationship model means that your subject matter experts can build up their networks of influence much faster than through a press release. to prepare them to be public representatives of the company.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

Indeed, HDS initially started publicizing its contest across Twitter, LinkedIn , Google AdWords , and with media partners as well as Facebook, but soon shifted most of the budget to Facebook because response was so much better there. The presentation mostly hypes Eloqua’s Facebook campaign, but a couple of things stood out for me.

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Is “social media campaign” an oxymoron?

Chris Koch

Indeed, HDS initially started publicizing its contest across Twitter, LinkedIn , Google AdWords , and with media partners as well as Facebook, but soon shifted most of the budget to Facebook because response was so much better there. The presentation mostly hypes Eloqua’s Facebook campaign, but a couple of things stood out for me.

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Want proof that the C-suite is into social media? Here it is.

Chris Koch

One is the river of planned content—the conference theme, the presentations, etc.; These are not the people we imagine Twittering about their need for complex enterprise IT services. However, CEOs did show a specific preference for the range of social networking sites—LinkedIn, Facebook, and Plaxo—over Twitter or blogs.

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There is only one objective in social media: create learning networks

Chris Koch

Whether it’s blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, or private communities that we build ourselves, the common thread is that by focusing on learning we build and retain buyers’ interest. Here are the key elements of learning networks: Create an internal learning network. Using ideas from the learning network, marketing needs to develop content.

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Why you need to turn your customers into stalkers

Chris Koch

It has made those little pictures and bios at the end of white papers seem inadequate when compared to the wealth of information we can see about people on such social media channels as LinkedIn and Twitter. Buyers have higher expectations for intimacy. And this is how we address the issue of scaling intimacy.