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Weekly Link Round Up – 04-13-12

Friday, April 13th, 2012

4 Ways to Use Twitter for Customer Service and Support (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Having become more and more mainstream, Twitter has become a powerful tool for delivering topnotch customer service. The author shares four ways to leverage Twitter to get your customers (and those who aren’t yet) to love you more.

Meet Generation C: The Connected Customer (SocialMediaToday.com)

Generation Y has become an influential force in the economy, which is why marketers need to get to know this segment more. Dubbed by the author as the “Connected Customer,” this generation behaves very differently from their traditional counterparts because of their connectedness.

Social Media And Customer Service Go Hand-In-Hand (RevMediaMarketing.com)

Social media is easily recognized as one of the fastest and most effective ways to communicate with customers. To make the most out of this platform, businesses need to respond accordingly.

Case Study: How H&R Block Uses Twitter for Customer Service (EConsultancy.com)

The author dissects tax services company H&R Block’s use of Twitter in a case study, outlining how they use the tool to respond to customer feedback. Going beyond simply responding, though, they also actively seek out those who mention their company and engage them in conversation.

Learn How To Meet Influential New Customers Using This Free Twitter Tool (SocialMediaCommando.com)

Using social media is not about promoting your products or services outright; it’s about starting better conversations. Marketers can do just this with the help of Twitter’s Advanced Search function, which allows them to directly address potential customers.

Snapshot: Social Media Marketing Industry Report

Friday, April 13th, 2012

For a lot of companies worldwide, moving their marketing to the social Web has got to be the most important decision they’ve made. Indeed it is, with all the benefits of leveraging on social media marketing tactics offering to make their businesses thrive online and get ahead of the competition. Because of this, more and more companies are getting onboard the online marketing train, learning the ropes, and finding the best ways to use the social Web’s real-time capabilities to achieve their goals.

 

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Tool Time: Crowdbooster streamlines social media monitoring and engagements

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

At any given day, people working in the social media marketing field often find themselves swamped. Between the regular tasks of monitoring and measuring campaign tractions, personally engaging with followers, the occasional events and meeting with clients, brand managers and online marketers have learned to create processes and follow schedules built around these responsibilities. They’ve also included the use of tools and utilities to streamline their tasks.

 

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Tips for writing great content: Before you start writing

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Image by Carlos Úbeda

A lot of online marketing strategies deal with how a brand, or business can optimize their presence on the social Web to present to the world what they have to offer. And under all these campaigns, tactics, and strategic planning lies great content. It’s the content that can generate traffic and raise its exposure online, and is heavily instrumental in delivering the brand’s news to its targeted demographic.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 04-07-12

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

Instagram Helping Big Brands Filter, Share, and Promote Their Message (Technorati.com)

With a whopping 2,000 new sign-ups per minute and as many as 2.9 million new users per day after its launch on Android, Instagram continues to challenge social media giants and attract brands like Burberry, Nike, Tiffany & Co., and Banana Republic.

Do you have an image problem? Here are 3 ways to solve that! (Avenuesocial.com)

Adam Helweh teaches us how to increase brand affinity, attract inbound traffic, and communicate and engage with customers visually through infographics, photo-sharing, and social bookmarking applications.

17 Examples of Creative Facebook Page Cover Photos (HubSpot.com)

As Facebook’s “Timeline” design becomes mandatory this week, it’s certainly worth it for you to put your business page’s valuable real estate to good use and make your cover photo stunning, creative, and functional. Cory Eridon shows us 17 inspiring Facebook cover photos from 17 brands that did it right.

5 Reasons Images are King with Social Media Marketing (JeffBullas.com)

People are undeniably visual and things like color and movement reel them in and keep them coming back for more. In this compelling post, Christine Kane gives us five reasons why businesses should start adding images to their blogs, Facebook pages and other social media accounts.

Five Digital Tools to Boost Your Brand’s Image in Social Commerce [infographic] (SocialCommerceToday.com)

This colorful infographic illustrates how social bookmarking, f-commerce, digital couponing, mobile photo sharing, and gamification have helped brands engage their fans and improve their image.

Optimizing Facebook Timeline for branding

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Image by GOIABA (Goiabarea)

It’s been a while since Facebook introduced and unleashed Timeline onto millions of its users, implementing the new user interface along with a plethora of features. And though reception has been mixed with some users still preferring to stick to the original profile layout, a lot are beginning to embrace the new layout, even customizing its components to their liking.

 

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Tool Time: Chrome extensions for enhancing Tumblr

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Tools to Rev Up Your Tumblr Marketing Strategies

Image by 55Laney69

Among the many social media sites that have gained massive popularity in recent years is Tumblr. As the love child of a full on blogging service and a microglogging platform, it features great features of both. It’s straightforward, has good integration with other popular social networking sites, it’s easy to share with your online friends, and it has a network of very active loyal users flocking toward common interests and niches. And it is also because of these very reasons that many brands have also included it into their own online marketing campaigns.

 

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