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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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Weekly Link Round Up – 12-24-11

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Nostradamus Predicts: Gamification will have a Bright 2012 (42Terabytes.com)

In light of David Armano’s (of Edelman Digital) successful social media predictions in the past, Maximillian Lemos revisits the former’s positive outlook on the emergence of game-like qualities on today’s Internet and mobile social apps.

OPINION: What is Gamification and should you bother finding out? (UsefulSocialMedia.com)

Harry Rollason explores the meaning of ‘gamification’, and arrives to the conclusion that it’s more than just a fad, as what many large corporations rushing to apply gamification tools to their brand are realizing today as well.

Social Loyalty: The missing ingredient to @BestBuy’s success (Gamifixation.com)

As the largest electronics store in the U.S. desperately attempts to transform one-time shoppers into loyal customers with its “Gaming Trade-in” idea, Carlos Gonzales explains what Best Buy did wrong and how geo-location apps like Foursquare and Gowalla can be used to create social loyalty.

Online Marketing & Gamification by Design (McBuzz.com)

Mark McLaren interviews Gabe Zichermann, author of the book Gamification by Design and investigates the importance of gamification in developing a robust online marketing plan.

How Has Gamification Gone Mainstream? (Infographic) (Dr4ward.com)

Large corporations like Pepsi, Nike, and Nissan have taken notice. Gamification, also known as the application of concepts and techniques from games to other areas of activity, in this case, social media, has gone viral and is quickly becoming a staple in today’s online marketing efforts.

Integrating gamification into your social media marketing campaigns

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

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Among today’s social media strategies, gamification leverages on heavily engaging with your targeted audience through fun gaming elements to keep them engrossed to stay in your side of the social Web. With all the benefits it can offer brands, gamification can be a powerful tactic to roll out, leveraging on the rich and fun user experience for everyone involved. And the shared experiences between you and all the people engaging with you via your campaign can create great opportunities that can propel your brand to success.

 

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Facebook rolls out Timeline, intros it to mobile

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Back in September, Facebook introduced Timeline, a reinvigorated interface for user profiles that features a better layout, and showcases the users’ histories of activities. It’s not a mere account for all the activities you’ve done on the social networking giant. Instead, the timeline begins with your birth as it uses the information you provided during sign-up—in addition to all the status updates and Facebook activities you’ve taken part of.

 

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Snapshot: Gamification goes mainstream

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Gamification Goes Mainstream

While gamification is not a new concept, having been well utilized in years of educational activities, it’s only recently that it’s seen so much traction in the Internet marketing landscape. So much so that it’s become the main focus of a lot of brands looking to raise their engagements and develop good relationships with their demographic. Seattle-based, gamification startup BigDoor has released an infographic that explores gamification as fully leveraged by modern brands, significant figures and the possible directions it can take in the future, as one of the most effective and fun marketing strategies today.

 

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Twitter unveils recipient of their Golden Tweet Award

Friday, December 9th, 2011

It’s December again, it’s that time of the year when media entities online start putting out their The Best of and Next Year’s Predictions lists in every possible topic or angle for their niche. Among the first wave of Web companies to unveil their lists, social media giant Twitter has been doling out their annual #YearInReview lists since the start of the month, listing the most popular topics, tweets and users down their tubes this year.

 

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