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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? New YouTube video that goes viral. That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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MAY 26, 2010

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. link] online marketing blog using facebook fan page as a newsletter is a great idea, thanks for the great article. The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location. Just like websites. link] jaybaer It will.

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JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Read the fine print. This is particularly important when managing branded client materials.

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MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(.

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APRIL 1, 2010

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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JULY 14, 2010

[link] #sm [link] Richard Becker Best Fresh Content Pick: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] by @membershipjedi [link] Martin Seibert I definitely like your approach and I fully agree, that strategy comes first and social media and tracking follow. The challenges and chances of facebook, twitter, YouTube et.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Podcasts vs. YouTube. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Take your top keywords (including your company name, product name, etc.) What shows up in these search results? How much photo and video content appears?

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JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. It’s about humanization.

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APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community.

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Optinmonster

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Businesses could now use email marketing , banner ads, chat messaging , and all those other online marketing tools we’ve come to know and love. Since Uber drivers come into contact with lots of people every day, this word-of-mouth marketing quickly spreads and builds the brand’s reputation.

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MARCH 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you treating social media like a checklist? A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ThinkGeek has a robust involvement in social media, with over 68,000 followers on Twitter , 50,000 fans on Facebook and over 11,000 subscribers to their channel on YouTube , which features company-posted videos demonstrating items like their proximity-meter t-shirts and fake-blood-filled, realistically gummy heart for Valentine’s Day.

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MAY 19, 2010

We want our marketing content to be: Discoverable – Marketing content is consumed on our time and with our permission. Whether it be discovered as a blog post via Google search, a video via YouTube or through an archive of indexed Tweets — we want the content we are looking for, when we are looking for it.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Most of the tools in the space focus on Twitter, we focus on Facebook Pages, YouTube and Twitter. Check out this post from @ktvan on choosing the right one [link] [link] B2B Online Marketing Very informative! RT @jaybaer: Not sure which social media tools to use?

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JUNE 8, 2010

A single tweet, YouTube video, or blog post can be the spark that sets off a firestorm of controversy. Opportunities Via Context Musician Dave Carroll has been widely lauded for his “ United Breaks Guitars &# YouTube video that has now been seen more than 8.5 450,000 views on YouTube, and counting.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some companies (such as Domino's which I also wrote about here: [link] ) have gotten better at acting like they are all of those buzz words like transparent, human, conversational, engaging, etc. You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&#

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’m planning to write a full post about it soon, but the real genius of Swix is that it allows you to easily create a unified scoreboard of all your key social media metrics like blog traffic, subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and much more.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I’m planning to write a full post about it soon, but the real genius of Swix is that it allows you to easily create a unified scoreboard of all your key social media metrics like blog traffic, subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and much more.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

That’s what attracted me to online marketing initially, and why I made the jump to that career in the mid-90s. The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Although ironically, I wouldn't exactly hold up Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, or YouTube as fantastic customer service examples either. Just in time marketing, combined with social listening, equals brand kinship and word-of-mouth that you cannot purchase with a commercial. That is troubling. link] jaybaer Perfect!

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem.

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APRIL 27, 2010

[link] Clinton Bonner This so reminds me of Christoph Waltz's acceptance speech for best supporting actor at this year's Oscars for his role in Inglorious Bastards… Everyone has to do the obligatory “thank you(s)&# just as an element of Randy's job was to provide the information he needed to convey … If you haven't (..)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It's also about how the brand has set up the Twitter account or accounts: are they just selling, giving deals; is it a genuine customer service contact point; are they engaging with followers and brand advocates, directing conversations beyond Twitter to blogs, YouTube, other channels? An online marketing pro since 1994?

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