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Tips for implementing social media-driven customer service

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Tips for implementing social media-driven customer service

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Integrating customer service into your social media strategies lets you utilize the Web’s real-time, interactive nature to respond to your customers more efficiently. Needless to say, this level of interaction and the effectiveness it offers are among the things traditional customer service platforms (via snail mail, comment cards, and toll-free numbers), can only hope to accomplish.

 

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What journalists can teach us about writing social media content

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

What journalists can teach us about writing social media content

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Leveraging on one’s writing skills is crucial in social media marketing, especially for creating content meant for mass distribution online. And as far as writing professions go, people trained to be journalists are generally best suited to serve as content writers.

 

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Stopping that damned writer’s block before it strikes

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Tips to help social media content writers avoid getting writer's block

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Detrimental to anyone relying on their writing skills, the affliction we all come to refer to as “Writer’s Block” has been the bane of every writer’s attempts at productivity. Even more so for content writers who are, by nature, required to follow strict writing schedules for their brand’s social media marketing and SEO goals. While it’s not a very grave predicament, it’s still a looming inconvenience that can threaten to cause a dent in the mapped out content production strategies when it strikes.

 

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A primer on protecting your content online

Monday, January 30th, 2012

A primer on protecting your content online

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The Internet is a haven of creativity. From personal Web pages, and art-driven portals, down to video services and social music sites, the Web serves as a free-flowing platform where both the artistically inclined and the not-so-witty come to roost and show everyone what they’re created. And in this day and age of the massive social interconnections, the social networks are where users tend to share their creativity online.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 01-27-12

Friday, January 27th, 2012

3 New Apps to Manage Your Social Networks (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

As new and very different social media sites rise up, managing your brand across them can be difficult. Thankfully, new apps with diverse features to offer have also been developed to help both brands and individual users manage their social networks.

Cable Networks Embrace Social TV, Creating New Social Apps (Mashable.com)

Brick-and-mortar businesses aren’t the only ones going social. Through networks such as Facebook together with check-in services like GetGlue and Miso, cable networks have begun to connect fans with show content to keep them engaged.

How ‘Pinterest’ing: 5 Great Ways to Use Pinterest (SocialWebDaily.com)

One of the hottest social networks trending today is Pinterest, a pinboard-styled medium for short-form blogging. As a great medium for exchanging inspiration and engaging with others with similar interests, the site lends itself to a number of creative uses.

The 12 Keys To Successful Gamification (Part 1) (SocialFresh.com)

While gamification may be gaining ground as a popular social media and marketing strategy, there are many ways to go about it. With a few ideas to think about, you can get started on creating the most effective way to gamify your brand, website, or app.

Infographic: Millennials will change the way you sell (BazaarVoice.com)

By 2017, Millennials—the generation that invented Facebook—will have more spending power than any other generation. With that said, it helps to understand that this generation needs an entirely different kind of marketing strategy to get to them. This infographic illustrates a study of how these Millennials shop.

Producing valuable content

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Producing valuable content

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As you may know, the content on a brand’s Web site or blog is essential in achieving both their Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) goals. It’s the core that delivers the brand’s messages to their followers, and helps search engines place and rank the site properly on their results pages. Here, content developers need to focus on both the search engine spiders and human site visitors.

 

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Ramping up customer service with social media

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Ramping up customer service with social media

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With social media being the core component of just about every Web site out there, brands have learned to map and develop every aspect of their business around it. From how the sites are constructed, down to the ways content is crafted and distributed—brands have definitely gotten onboard with the whole social spectrum that offers a lot of opportunities.

 

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