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Five Steps for Building Your Email and SMS Lists via Social Mediaby Chris Watland
Want to grow your SMS and email marketing lists? Your social media fans and followers—who've already demonstrated their interest in you—are the perfect targets. Learn five steps for converting your social fans to subscribers.
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Follow AMEX's Example of a Successful Facebook Campaignby Kimberly Smith
Sure, Facebook promotions can get you some "Likes," but is that all there is? Learn how American Express's Israel division used Facebook to gain valuable customer insight and deepen brand engagement.
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Clash of the Social Network Titans: Google+, Facebook, and Twitterby Michael Wu
A few weeks into Google+, and most at least know of the new social networking site, even if they haven't joined yet. Still resisting? Based on its current growth rate, you may want to jump in sooner rather than later. ...
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Seven SMB Marketing Trends for 2011by Niel Robertson
This will be the year online advertising turns its attention to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Many SMBs could get overwhelmed by the number of new online marketing tools. Here are seven trends that'll create the biggest opportunity—and confusion—for SMBs ...
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Why 'Social Proof' Matters in Your Social-Marketing Successby Dan Martell
When it comes to social marketing, there's power in numbers. Our thoughts and behavior patterns are shaped by the opinions and actions of others, especially those we know and respect. Find out how to grab and keep their attention ...
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Bring Your Fans Home: How to Capitalize on Facebook Fatigueby Jessica Shieh
Is the buzz around Facebook fading? That is just what a couple of recent studies suggest, so perhaps it's time to bring your fans home—back to your website. Marketers should give serious thought to supplementing their social-media strategies with a ...
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Facebook Upgrade: How New Features Will Help Brands Connect With Fansby Aaron Strout, Kevin Tate
Although much of what you might have heard recently about Facebook likely involves privacy concerns, many of the updates coming out of Facebook's F8 Developer Conference this past April should only make it easier for marketers to engage with their ...
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Winning Facebook Tactics for Today's Search Marketerby Matt Lawson
Facebook has more than 400 million active users who collectively spend more time on the platform than on any other website in the world, sharing detailed information about their likes, dislikes, and preferences. No wonder advertisers are salivating at the ...
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13 'Old-School' Marketing Techniques That Take Your Facebook Fan Page From Wimpy to Wowby Dean Rieck
Once you have your page set up, how do you maximize your fan base and get the most out of your page? Some social-media gurus think that "old-school" marketing techniques have gone the way of the dinosaur and won't work ...
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Yes, Facebook Is a Business Toolby Paul Chaney
Is Facebook really a tool for business? Paul Chaney says yes. Much the same way a power company connects homes and businesses with electricity, Facebook is a "social utility" designed to facilitate connections between people as well as businesses.
Accordingly, it ...
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Why 70% of Facebook 'Fans' Don't Want Marketing, and What You Can Do About Itby Morgan Stewart
Most consumers who use Facebook and are a "fan" of a company or brand don't believe they have given those companies permission to market to them; many don't believe marketers are welcome in social networks at all. But here's how ...
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Four Case Studies: How These (Very Different) B2B Organizations Are Succeeding With Social Media
by Christina "CK" KerleyEven though B2C companies get the lion's share of coverage about the benefits of social media, B2B organizations of vastly different sizes and industries are making striking gains in employing these technologies to increase their market share and solve revenue ...
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The Three Most Popular Social Networks for Business (and Why You Should Use Them)by Paul Chaney
An ancient proverb states that a "cord of three strands is not easily broken." By way of analogy, I hypothesize that the more individual connections to a particular person you have, the stronger your overall relationship with that person will ...
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Making Your Email 'Social-able' by Kara Trivunovic
Take a minute and think about the folks with whom you socialize. You may have a professional network (LinkedIn) and a personal network (Facebook). You may tweet for fun or business, or for both—or maybe you just follow some sports ...
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Ten Steps for Creating a FANtastic Facebook Fan Pageby Mari Smith
Facebook offers many features for strategic networking and generating visibility for your company.
Among them, Facebook fan pages are (currently) the only feature fully indexed by Google. By inserting keyword-rich text throughout your fan page and updating regularly, you can create ...
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Five Social Media Tools You Can't Afford to Ignore
by Mack CollierSure, social media is big. But even if your company doesn't have the resources for a dedicated social media strategy, here are five social media sites and tools you can't afford to ignore.
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How Social Is Socially Acceptable in Email?by Stephanie Miller
Marketers face a bit of a quandary in deciding how social to be. There is a seemingly endless number of social networks, all with conversations that might be relevant to the business.
When it comes to email, the issue becomes trickier ...
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A Corporate Field Guide to Social-Media Policy Development
by Kimberly SmithYour employees are already on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like... so isn't it high time for companies to acknowledge that activity and implement a protective framework that will assist them in mitigating the risks related to employee productivity, confidentiality, ...
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Put Crowdsourcing to Work for You: Five Tips for Getting Started
by Kimberly SmithSome companies are finding that their customers have a truer understanding of their own motivators and needs than even the most-qualified Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and (what's more) that an outsider perspective may be just what their organizations need.
It's called ...
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Segment Email and Social Networks for a Vitamin-Power Boostby Stephanie Miller
Here's how Nature Made is combining email and social networking to build stronger email connections with customers and prospects.