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Spreading the Cheer on the Social Web with a Mix of Marketing

Tuesday, December 25th, 2012

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Merry Christmas! It’s yet another one of those days to spread a bit of cheer to everyone in your network. But how is your business faring? Are you going to post the usual marketing pitch, or are you planning to do simply kick back and greet whoever comes by your Facebook page or Twitter feed?

If you’re still posting on your page for your business today, why not consider a few ideas that spread cheer while still making a little call to action?

 

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Strategies to Keep People Hooked on Your Social Feed

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

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How do you make sure you stand out from the rest when every business has its own Facebook page, Twitter account, or any other form of social media? After all, people are likely to unfollow a page if it serves only to clog up their news feeds. For this reason, it helps to keep a few things in mind so your audience stays engaged.

 

 

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Keeping Track of Events to Stay in Tune with Your Audience

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

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Yesterday, as the clock struck 12:12am on December 12, 2012, social media channels fired up with posts celebrating this rare moment. Brands posted amusing photos relevant to the day, seized the opportunity to promote products with the number 12 in them, and even threw sudden promos the very moment the time and date lined up. While some missed the mark, others certainly made the most of the moment.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 10-05-12

Friday, October 5th, 2012

4 Reasons Why Your Marketing Will Die Without Integration (SocialFresh.com)

While social media marketing by itself can generate a buzz and help draw attention to the brand, different modes of advertising and marketing need convergence in order to maximize impact. By bringing them together, marketers can craft a unified brand experience for a customer.

10 Creative Ways to Use Instagram for Business (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Instagram is an up-and-coming photo-focused social platform not to be ignored. In fact, its popularity had caused Facebook to acquire it and Hootsuite to add it to its app directory. Marketers thinking of tapping into Instagram will find that it offers a great venue to bring together social engagement and traditional media.

Businesses and consumers are on the same team — so start acting like it (BazaarVoice.com)

While some may believe that consumers and businesses are opponents, social media has changed things. Businesses that recognize that they’re on the same team as their consumers can stand to reap the most from consumer-brand loyalty, developing their products for the better and in turn, generating more profit.

Citi Exec: Social Media Is the New Golf Course (AdWeek.com)

Social media isn’t just for marketing to customers. In fact, according to Citi’s global social media director, social media can humanize business-to-business sales calls. This underutilized tactic offers a great advantage in the form of “scalable intimacy”—businesses can know who their customer is.

The Social Senator Reinstills Faith In Government (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) is one of the few elected members of Congress that not only “has” social media, but uses it to engage his constituents. Aside from keeping in touch with an audience through Twitter, he also records videos on his train commutes to Washington, answering constituent questions.

Weekly Link Round Up – 09-21-12

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Social Media Is More Than Just Social and Media (JureKlepic.com)

Marketers need to be aware that social media marketing isn’t just about building relationships and getting the word about the brand out to the public. In order to achieve the results they want, they need to think about the other things that govern interaction, such as the objects people use to communicate and what time they’re most open to conversation.

Making Sense of Geographical Targeting in Social Media (IgniteSocialMedia.com)

As the internet covers a wide array of locations and audiences, businesses will often come across the challenge to distinguish themselves from other brands. One way to do this is through geographical targeting. The question now, though, is how? Various social networks offer tools to help businesses become more relevant to their locale.

The Challenge of Social Media Humor (PRtini.com)

As brands such as Old Spice had shown, humor can be an incredibly powerful tool for attracting and engaging an audience. But sometimes, it can backfire. If it’s misinterpreted or if the intent is unclear, a marketing campaign will leave itself open to criticism.

6 Ways to Use Reddit to Grow Your Business (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

So-called the “front page of the internet”, Reddit offers brands an interesting and novel way to connect and engage with customers. Compared to networks such as Twitter and Facebook, engagement on Reddit is an entirely different experience. But when done correctly, brands can enjoy a closer relationship with a community of customers.

Kodak’s Social Media Success—and What Bloggers Can Learn From It (ProBlogger.net)

Despite having to manage so many social media channels, Kodak offers a great example of fully utilizing social media marketing. Through its well-thought strategy, the social media team at Kodak is able to engage, educate, excite, and evangelize its audience.

Weekly Link Round Up – 09-07-12

Friday, September 7th, 2012

10 Steps to Reinvent Media Strategy (PR-Squared.com)

Between 2011 and 2012, consumer habits have gone through huge changes. Now that more people look for others like themselves to tell them about a product, it becomes more important for brands to reinvent their media strategy if they’re still following traditional approaches.

17 Lessons About Content Marketing for Small Business (TopRankBlog.com)

Whether you’re a small or a large company, there is one thing that shouldn’t be ignored: the power of content. By following a few lessons about content marketing, brands can beef up their social presence and their website to engage followers effectively.

Top 10 Small Business Facebook Pages: 2012 Winners! (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

It’s not only big companies catching attention in the social media sphere. Social Media Examiner’s Top 10 Small Business Facebook Pages contest honors notable brands that have effectively leveraged the social medium. These brands prove that there are ways to become effective social marketers without the need to allot a big budget.

What Social Consumers Want From Your Brand (SimonMainwaring.com)

As social media’s sway over consumer habits grows stronger, there arises a need to understand the new breed of customer. These customers, who seem fickle at first, want to develop a relationship with their brand and not just mindlessly consume. Brands need to find ways to foster this and turn each customer’s interest into loyalty.

Minilytics Wants To Answer Your Most Common Facebook Marketing Questions (SocialMouths.com)

Starting out with social media marketing on Facebook, but don’t know what to measure? Minilytics aims to provide answers to common questions about a page’s performance. By providing managers with a quick overview of how their page is doing, even those new to social media marketing can find ways to make their efforts all the more effective.

Weekly Link Round Up – 08-10-12

Friday, August 10th, 2012

12 Most Frustrating Things About Klout (12Most.com)

Although Klout is perhaps the best known tool for quantifying and qualifying online influence, it has been received differently from a variety of users. Getting to know what makes it frustrating for some can help social media mavens understand it better.

Finding Influencers Using Your Own Algorithm (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

The Awareness Social Marketing Hub has added an interesting feature with its new release this week. Through an influencer scoring and ranking functionality, marketers are now able to see fan and follower data and find passive influencers. The highlight of this new feature is in the way users are free to control the parameters to fit their needs.

Six Hot Trends In Social Influence Marketing (BusinessesGrow.com)

It’s one thing to find the influencers and brand advocates. The next question would be what to do with them. With social scoring, marketers may be able to create interesting projects that will definitely spark customer involvement.

What the Fortune 100 have discovered about social since 2010 (BazaarVoice.com)

While it has taken a while for the Fortune 100 to adopt social media as part of their marketing strategies, efforts to understand the social space has begun to pay off. Today, corporations have found the value of catering to niche groups and providing truly interesting and relevant content to keep their audiences engaged.

What Can Brands Learn from NASA’s Social Media Strategy? (Spiral16.com)

There is much renewed interest in NASA stemming from the @MarsCuriosity Twitter feed, which documents the rover’s activity in an engaging manner that definitely keeps followers hooked. In fact, this approach NASA takes to its social media contributes to great results, including a high turnout of people tuning in to watch the rover’s live landing.

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