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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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. First – What are the objectives? What questions are you trying to answer?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

world-wide shows that just 25% of respondents said their friends and peers are credible sources of information about companies – a decline of 20% since a similar analysis in 2008. That’s why brands go to great lengths to humanize themselves on the social Web. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.) On the surface, it makes sense.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” ) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it and the consumers contributing to it. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department. That’s last year.