Contently

APRIL 26, 2016

As the content marketing wave has crested, one particular tactic has been at the center of the buzz: the branded content site. Few people at SXSW look like they’re having a better time than Doug Busk, Coca-Cola’s affable global director of digital communications and social media. The content wars. billion users.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Which brings up the whole “viral&# aspect of the platform. Why Am I sharing This?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

This unprecedented co-branding partnership between Google and Nestle fueled buzz for both brands and started a discussion around the future of similar arrangements. Do your due diligence to ensure your co-branding partnership doesn’t end up in a huge PR fiasco that reflects negatively on your company. Leverage social media.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Home » B2B Marketers Have Little Social Media Engagement B2B Marketers Have Little Social Media Engagement Almost 60% of B2B marketers have little or no engagement in social media, according to a recent study by digital marketing firm White Horse.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow. Absolutely.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Class: Social Media and Building Community (GF201) Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs Chris Brogan’s presentation was more of a theoretical overview of community building than tools for doing that. Veredict: If you are new to social networks, community building, etc. and measure it religiously.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These are some examples of virality (the marketing kind) at its best. Thing is, viral marketing is not easy. Newsjack virality, that's what you can do. In other words, you can take something that's already gone viral, and piggyback on its success by creating your own awesome spin on it. So what can you do?

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SnapApp

JANUARY 30, 2012

Beyond engaging consumers and inspiring word-of-mouth buzz, contests can generate strong returns in the form of leads, feedback, PR, and social media growth. Leverage your professional network. For both consumer-driven and B2B marketing, networking is key. Provide customer incentives.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. As Brian Solis has written about a lot, social optimization needs to be simple.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). McCann is CEO of Gist , a provider of real-time intelligence on your network of online contacts. If it is, we’ll include it in Viral Heat. Viral Heat data includes location, wherever available.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works. New YouTube video that goes viral.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. For example, we get pitches from PR firms about major brands running new viral or social media campaigns. Excellent food for thought for us PR hacks out there.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2012

But successful word-of-mouth marketing takes work and serious marketing savvy, leveraging many components of inbound marketing like product marketing, content creation, and social media marketing. These are the traits of a thought leader ; they are qualities that elicit the feeling of trust that is necessary to create word of mouth buzz.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise.

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Hubspot

JUNE 1, 2011

Social media, specifically, enables you to reach a very large audience for little cost, which makes it a superb outlet for contests and giveaways. People love to share great content, and the social channel only makes it easier to spread the word about your promotion. When done right, social media will help your contests go viral.

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Hubspot

MAY 29, 2015

Unfortunately, he quickly found that generating buzz for blenders wasn't all that easy. Virality isn’t born, it’s made. In his book, Berger fuses the concepts of virality, social influence, and interpersonal communication with research and stories around what makes an idea not only stick, but also spread. Or yoga pants?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. This has proved to be spot on when it comes to a social media campaign.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Why can’t your social media program do that? The best – and most effective – social media programs aren’t based on promotions and message distribution. That’s understanding that social media success is a long putt, not a tap-in. Instead, they revolve around removing friction and uncertainty for potential or current customers.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Follow Me On Twitter 90 Tips To Make Your Blog Rock Written by jeffbullas - 30 Comments Categories: Blog , Blogging , Social Media Share Tweet Blogging whether it is for your personal passion or for the corporate blog is quite often a journey that has its highs and lows. Post and link your content on the Delicious social bookmarking site.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Business Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Business Mobile 2.0 Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr , one of the world’s top independent PR agencies.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

It provides b2b marketers, trade industry journalists, analysts and other subscribers with a single subscription point for all of the best thought leadership content in b2b marketing and PR. SazBean ( Social Network Analytics Measurement Social Media ). B2B, Buzz & Brand ROI: Creating Customers That Create (MORE!)

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 18, 2019

You must have heard phrases such as, “The brand sold exclusively through word of mouth ” or “The brand’s latest campaign went viral.” ” So, what do word of mouth (WoM) and going viral mean in this context? You can also use social media to acquaint strangers with your brand.

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2014

There used to be a myth that PR was reserved for big brands with deep pockets. The web has been buzzing with rumors, headlines, and memes as the public speculates what sparked the argument -- as the web will do. But for Beyoncé, it’s a full-blown PR crisis. Major #fail. Enough said.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

And I don’t think I’d be nearly as effective in my recommendations if I wasn’t also an active participant of the social web. Provide relevant, timely information to established media This is a really simple tactic I came up with as a PR strategist. External networks should be secondary calls-to-action.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

But creating and maintaining a successful blog takes more than just producing helpful and original content; as social media expert Heidi Cohen recently wrote , “The most epic content will FAIL without content distribution. How I promote my new blog posts by The Social Media Hat. If no one sees your content, what good is it?”

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Biznology

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Extreme PR ? You can buy PR agencies so discrete that they can pull off Wag the Dog -style media manipulation, misdirection, redirection, and complete narrative rewrites without anyone ever having known, ever. Münchausen syndrome by proxy? To do yourself, your staff children, and your country harm just for attention?

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Biznology

MAY 27, 2014

And, since the typical visitor is undiscerning as to whether content is an ad or editorial (people generally don’t discern between organic results and ad results on Google search , believe it or not), it’s not hard to bait the typical user into paid content — even to the point of earning shares to social media.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 28, 2012

Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well). What’s the best process for developing a social media marketing plan?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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