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Six Tips for Practicing Safe Social Media [Slide Show]by Scott Oppliger
Social media provides an open channel to engage customers in real-time communications, but that could also pose a risk. Here are six critical steps every organization should take to ensure ...
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Social Graph Drives Brand Lift, Direct Response Ad Metrics
Ad campaigns that target consumers on the basis of their social media activities and interest-based connections—or Brand Graph—perform better than ads without such targeting capabilities, and they generate large gains ...
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Inc. 500 Social Media Use: Facebook, Twitter Up; Blogging Down
Facebook and LinkedIn are now the most popular and most effective social media tools among the nation's fastest-growing private companies, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts at ...
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Gen-Y Won't Buy Without User-Generated Input
Raised on a diet of interactive and social media, Millennials are a consumer powerhouse who, when considering purchases, tend to value user-generated content (UGC) more than other sources of information, ...
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Socialize Me! In Stages, Though, Please.
The journey to complete socialization (the connected kind, not the 1984 kind) takes time, and it's okay to do it in steps.
Sometimes it helps your advancement in the social ...
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Blogs Top List of Social Media Investments for 2012
Fully seven in ten brands (70%) say they plan to increase their presence across social media platforms in 2012, while 59% plan to boost the frequency of social content publishing, ...
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Six Ways to Make Your Content Shareable
Content isn't meant to stay grounded, it's meant to soar across the social Web, says Ann Handley in an Entrepreneur article titled "How to Increase Social Sharing to Generate More ...
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Websites Trump Social Media for Finding Holiday Deals
When searching for the best holiday deals, one-quarter (25%) of surveyed consumers say they prefer visiting brand websites over other channels such as print media (15%), email newsletters and notifications ...
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Four Ways to Own the First SERP
"When consumers hear of a local business that is not well known, it's only natural that they conduct some research before making a purchase," writes Nathan Hanks in an article ...
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Social Media Lessons From the GOP Race
Republican presidential candidates have made social media an integral part of their campaign efforts to win the White House in 2012—signing on to various social networks in hopes of reaching ...
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Social Media Trends With Benefits in 2012
The integration of social media and business has come of age: 38% of CEOs now label it a high priority, and 57% of businesses plan to hike their social media ...
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How to Influence the Influencers [Slide Show]by Christian Gulliksen
Getting influencers on your side is a major feat that can help exponentially amplify your message. But how can you win them over? Here is a five-point plan for effectively ...
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Integrating Social Media Still Challenges Marketers
Although most US companies use social networks—66% have a Facebook page, 51% have a Twitter account, and 44% have a LinkedIn page—only 16% say their social marketing efforts are fully ...
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Top Social Networking Trends and Need-to-Knows
Social networking was the most popular online content category in the world as of October 2011, accounting for 19% of all time spent online, or one out of every five ...
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Maximizing Your Brand Presence on Google+
Recently, Google+ granted companies the ability to launch brand pages. Its stated goal in doing so was to help users build relationships with any company they "care about."
As Google's ...
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Top 5 Crowdsourcing Pitfalls That Can Sink You [Slide Show]by Wil Merritt
Crowdsourcing can be a great way to generate creative for your campaign, allowing your brand advocates to "own" a piece of your messaging. But watch out for five common pitfalls—and ...
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Mobile Social Media: Top Apps, Deal Sites, and More
Social consumers—people who are active on various social networking sites—use mobile devices broadly in their social activities, such as checking in with social networking sites, sharing content, playing games, and ...
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Facebook: Where Gen-Y's Personal and Work Lives Converge
Social networking is blurring the lines between people's personal and professional lives, particularly among younger generations, according to a new study by Millennial Branding.
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Some Do's and Don'ts of Social Updating
It's hard to decide what's appropriate for posting on social networks without an etiquette road map—and harder still when you're doing it as a company, not just as yourself.
Amalia Agathou of ...
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Top 50 Social Brands: eBay Beats Apple, Google
eBay clinched the No. 1 spot among the top 50 ranking of social brands, for most effectively and consistently engaging customers via social media channels, according to Alterian's inaugural Social ...