• Eight Ways Marketers Can Benefit From Using Alltop by Mack Collier
  In aggregating and organizing content from top sites around the Internet, Alltop goes a long way toward solving the filtering problem that many of us have. Alltop can be an invaluable tool for marketers. This article shares eight ways that ...
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• Four Case Studies: How These (Very Different) B2B Organizations Are Succeeding With Social Media by Christina "CK" Kerley
  Even 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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• Transforming Customers Into a Community by Adam Boyden
  When your customers feel that they are part of a community, they visit your website more often, provide feedback, and recommend your products and services to people they know. They do so because they now have a significant relationship with ...
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• Measuring What's Meaningful in Social Media by Mack Collier
  How do you measure the effectiveness of your social media efforts? Many companies are not properly tracking the right metrics. Or they are tracking the right metrics but aren't applying those metrics to their full effect. Here's a look at ...
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• Ten Steps for Creating a FANtastic Facebook Fan Page by 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 Collier
  Sure, 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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• 18 Favorite Tools of Twitter Rock Stars by Kimberly Smith
  You can immensely improve your Twitter experience and micro-blogging effectiveness with Twitter-related tools, apps, and services. But which among the more than 1,300 (and counting!) are the best tools to use? Here, we cover the "tried and true" favorites of some ...
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• Five Tools for Tracking, Measuring, and Evaluating Your Personal Brand Online by William Arruda
  The best kind of personal branding combines real-world communications with virtual visibility and community-building via social media. Online brand-building enables you to reach beyond the people you can connect with in person and allows you to measure the impact of your ...
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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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• Making Twitter Success Measurable by Evan Gerber
  For new-media darling Twitter, marketers are finding more tools to help them understand how their efforts are performing. This article will explore different ways to measure success (and mistakes) on Twitter by examining several real-world campaigns and the tools marketers can ...
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• Social Media and Your Personal Brand: Five Steps to Building Your Brand in Bits & Bytes by William Arruda
  The ubiquity of social-media tools has made personal branding even more pervasive, powerful, and efficient. Personal branding has moved online. Many Web 2.0 tools designed for building community and fostering lively discussion—such as LinkedIn, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter—are ideal for ...
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• A Corporate Field Guide to Social-Media Policy Development by Kimberly Smith
  Your 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 Smith
  Some 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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• Take off Your Twitter Goggles: Why Marketers Still Need a Blogging Strategy by Clay McDaniel
  Twitter may be the all the rage, but it's not yet time to pull the plug on your corporate blog and stop monitoring all the blogs where people talk about your brand. The emergence of Twitter as a hyper-popular social-media ...
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• A Newbie's Field Guide to Twitter for Business: 29 Questions (and Answers) About Starting Out by Beth Harte, Ann Handley
  So you've heard that Twitter is a great tool for connecting with customers in ways that haven't been previously possible. But you still don't get it, right? Not only doesn't Twitter make obvious and immediate sense, but it's also marked by ...
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• How to Develop a Successful Facebook Page by Mark Ivey
  Facebook Pages are good for building your brand and creating conversations, allowing users to get more deeply connected with your business. Recent changes have improved their functionality. Check out the following strategies for leveraging some of the key features.
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• Social Media 101: Use Twitter to Attract Prospects and Engage Customers by Debra Ellis
  Before you enter the relatively new frontier of social media, you need an action plan. Although the costs are low, social media tools require extensive maintenance to be effective. Your strategy needs to fit your corporate culture, resources, and customer ...
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• Why You Are Unpopular Online: Six Ways to Doom Your Community-Building Efforts by Mack Collier
  Companies are increasingly looking to create vibrant and healthy online communities for their businesses. But many companies are seeing their efforts fail or produce flat results. Here are six reasons why many online communities never materialize, and what you can ...
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• 13 Essential Social-Media 'Listening Tools' by Clay McDaniel
  You're a marketer who's hip to the idea of social media: You have a blog, you know Facebook inside and out, and you can Tweet with the best of them. But the big question is, Are you listening as well ...
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• Come Tweet With Me
  Hoping to position Lufthansa as bigger than just a German airline, digital agency Profero has helped it create MySkyStatus—a tool that has brought Lufthansa's branding catch-phrase, "passion for precision," to life ...
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• Social Media Users Open to Branding, Marketing
  Consumers flock daily to social media sites to keep in touch with friends and family, but they are also keen to buy from brands that they have seen on these ...
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• SMBs to Boost Twitter Use for Marketing
  Some 9% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) use Twitter to market their business, and 32% of SMBs say they plan to include social media in their marketing mix over ...
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• Teaching an Old Brand New Tricks
  Good news: You don't have to lose sight of your brand's tried-and-true persona to participate in the quest for deeper engagement at the new social sites. Just think of the ...
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• 19% of Internet Users Use Twitter
  Twitter use jumped significantly in the last six months, from 11% of US internet users in April 2009 to 19% today. Driving the growth are three groups: people who use ...
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• You Don't Drive Me Nuts Anymore!
  What makes Twitter so useful is also what makes it difficult to navigate: everyone is spewing what they think, all the time, about anything imaginable. This is good for tracking ...
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• They Like Us! They Really Like Us!
  Research coming out of Penn State reports that 20% of tweets—those wee messages published on Twitter—are brand-oriented. And not the way you'd naturally expect. While researchers originally thought they'd find ...
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• Companies Frown on Tweeting, Friending
  Visiting social networks such as Facebook or Twitter except for clear business reasons is discouraged or outlawed outright at a majority of US workplaces.
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• FTC Requires Bloggers to Come Clean
  New FTC guidelines will affect marketers who use blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and the like for word-of-mouth and viral campaigns, starting Dec. 1.
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• Better Than a Magic 8 Ball
  "It can be difficult to measure success of efforts that rely on emerging media," says Evan Gerber in an article at MarketingProfs. "[D]espite the fact that they are online channels, ...
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• It's a Secret (Wink, Wink)
  According to The Wrap, ABC has chosen an unorthodox way to promote a new comedy on its fall schedule—by keeping it hush-hush. "The network is offering the sneak peak of ...
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• Don't You Dare Dis My Babble!
  This summer, Pear Analytics released a study that got plenty of play in the Twitter/blogosphere. According to the Pear research, 40.5 percent of the messages published on social-media-darling Twitter are ...
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• I Don't Care What You Think, I Call a Do-Over
  It's going to happen sooner or later—a misprint will offer your product or service for a ridiculously low price that's too good to be true. Not long ago, writes Jackie ...
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• Moms, Media, and Marketing
  Women with children at home are more likely to use Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter than average adults, according to a newly released survey. They're big on word-of-mouth, and some 15.3% ...
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• Gays, Lesbians Like Blogs, Social Networking
  More than half (55%) of gay and lesbian Americans read blogs, compared with only 38% of heterosexuals. They also use social networking sites more than their heterosexual peers.
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• Whitepapers: Publish AND Promote, or Perish
  For small companies, technology whitepapers can be time-consuming and expensive to produce. Depending on the topic, they can also be highly perishable, with a relatively short shelf life. So it ...
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• Fist-Bump Your Card-Stack Into Oblivion
  The sun is setting on the tyranny of business cards—that stack of stiffs that seems important as you add to it again and again, but which you never really get the ...
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• Turn That Follower Into a Retweeter
  "When you first start playing in the social media sandbox, you feel compelled to collect," says Mark Goren in a post at the Daily Fix blog. "Subscribers. Followers. Friends. The ...
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• Facebook Connect Lifts Facebook Past MySpace
  The launch of Facebook Connect fueled Facebook's surge to the front of the social networking pack, leaving MySpace in the dust.
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• A Match Made in E-Heaven: Twitter and Email
  While vigorous debate continues over Twitter's real business value—and its long-term viability—high-tech executives and marketers are experimenting with Twitter today, using it to nurture relationships and improve their visibility by ...
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Twitter case studies, deconstructing real life examples and illustrating lessons learned

• How AAA Went to Where Its Members Needed Help: Social Media Sitesby American Automobile Association (AAA)
  CASE STUDY: With an increasing number of its members talking about the American Automobile Association via social media, the company decided it needed to monitor and respond.
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• How IBM Offset the Impact of a Down Economy on Event Attendanceby IBM
  CASE STUDY: How can you confront today's economic headwinds? See how IBM avoided a looming disaster and reached safe harbor with the help of customers and partners.
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• Twitter + Coffee = A Delicious Elixir for Customer Acquisition and Salesby Coffee Groundz
  CASE STUDY: The Houston-area coffee shop was just one among many, until it found Twitter. Today, the Coffee Groundz is ground zero among local social-media fans—and sales have soared.
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• Generating Serious B2B Buzz With Dead Bugs... and Videoby Grasshopper.com
  CASE STUDY: Entrepreneurs, by definition, don't play it too safe. So for a company that serves startups and small businesses, what better way to launch a rebranding campaign and generate buzz than doing something novel and risky—but being wicked smart about it. Which is where the bugs come in.
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• Tips From Microsoft on Cultivating Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty on a Global Scaleby Microsoft Corporation
  CASE STUDY: With millions of customers in more than 90 countries, Microsoft has its hands full keeping customers satisfied and loyal. But it has found a way to do so—by using Web-monitoring tools, social-media analytics, and the energy of influencers. Read on for valuable insights.
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• Using Video to Reel in Record High Traffic and Conversionsby Kinaxis
  CASE STUDY: Supply-chain software provider Kinaxis needed to reel in more customers, so it created a comedy video series, which soon became its most popular online content. The videos drew record site traffic and conversions, as well as doubling RSS subscriptions to the company blog within the first month.
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• How Good Karma Mixed With Moxy and Social Media Created Close to $1 Million in Revenueby Help A Reporter Out
  CASE STUDY: How does helping out a friend, or a friend of a friend, become a million-dollar business... with not a penny spent on advertising? When those little favors are in huge demand—and word-of-mouth and social media spread the good news like wildfire.
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• How a Little Sweet Talkin' on a Company Blog Led to Increased Search Engine Rankings, Salesby Fairytale Brownies
  CASE STUDY: Fairytale Brownies cooked up a win-win strategy to satisfy both its bottom line and its costumers' preferences. It created magic with a brownie blog optimized for search and attuned to customers' deepest dessert desires. The result? Some very happy endings.
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• How a Company's Word-of-Mouth Strategies and Customer Focus Helped Grow Its User Base 150%by FreshBooks
  CASE STUDY: Small businesses need all the TLC they can get. Billing and invoicing online-solution provider FreshBooks knows that better than most. Its customer-centric focus is so fresh and refreshing, word-of-mouth has spread far and wide—and helped grow its user base 150%.
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• Four Steps to Spurring B2B New-Product Awareness and Sales via Twitterby COOP Ale Works
  CASE STUDY: Twitter isn't the first tool that comes to mind in the B2B marketing toolbox. But COOP Ale Works deftly used it to generate buzz among potential consumers of its specialty brews—creating a level of demand that retail establishments, such as bars, couldn't ignore.
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• How Twitter Helped Save Ford From a PR Disasterby Ford Motor Company
  CASE STUDY: When US Airways flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River, Twitter users broke the news, 15 minutes ahead of mainstream media. The same channel and its immediacy also helped Ford Motor Company's head of social media quell a different kind of disaster--of the PR variety.
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• How New Media Helped Auction Direct USA Boost Sales 40%by Auction Direct USA
  CASE STUDY: While auto dealerships across the nation struggle to survive in the new economy, Auction Direct USA's business is expanding. In fact, its fresh approach to online marketing has transformed the brand of this "used car dealer" to drive up sales.
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• How Lenovo Used New Media Along With Olympic Sponsorship to Establish Global Brand Awarenessby Lenovo
  CASE STUDY: Last month in Beijing, Lenovo leveraged its Olympic sponsorship to develop global brand awareness. Unique to its approach was its use of new media, which fortified its traditional marketing and created a new level of athlete and fan interaction.
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• How a Technology Firm Used Social Media to Build Awareness for Its Web-based Monitoring Productby Radian6
  CASE STUDY - How does a social-media monitoring company build excitement for its flagship product? In the case of Radian6, it leveraged (you guessed it) social media and the medium's inherent word-of-mouth properties. Here's how.
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• How a CEO Uses Twitter to Convey the 'Sole' of His Companyby Zappos
  CASE STUDY: While others are still hashing out whether their CEO should be Twittering, blogging, or Plurking, Zappos Tony Hsieh has been using Twitter for over a year. Here, he reveals what he gets out of micro-blogging, and why he thinks it's important for his company and others to embrace social media tools.
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• How Goodwill Attracted Hip Customers via Social Networking, a Virtual Fashion Showby Goodwill of Greater Washington
  Goodwill Industries receives generous donations of clothing, many in good shape and by popular brands, but is perceived as a purveyor of low-quality, outdated merchandise. With a social-media marketing campaign, the nonprofit was able to change that perception and connect with young professional women who buy vintage clothing.
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Twitter online seminar broadcasts from the best minds in marketing

• Kicking Butt with Twitter: Guy Kawasaki's Marketing Tips and ToolsAttendee rating:  - 10/15/2009
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• The Art Of Social Media: It's All About The RelationshipsAttendee rating:  - 7/16/2009
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• Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a TimeAttendee rating:  - 7/2/2009
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• Bam! A Recipe to Add Social Media to your Marketing MixAttendee rating:  - 2/5/2009
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• Social Graces: Strategies to Take Your Social Media Marketing Beyond One-Off TacticsAttendee rating:  - 1/22/2009
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• Twitter Like You Mean It: The Right Way to Tweet Your BrandAttendee rating:  - 11/13/2008
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• Blogs, Tubes, Twitters, and More: Emerging Media's Impact on the Customer ExperienceAttendee rating:  - 3/29/2007
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Twitter marketing downloads for the busy professional

• Social Media ROI Success Stories
  Learn how social media is changing the way we market to consumers and businesses, and how 11 companies are measuring and monitoring the success of their social media campaigns.
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• Twitter Success Stories: How 11 Companies are Achieving Their Marketing Objectives—140 Characters at a Time
  Twitter’s brief tweets let you communicate with friends and family. But did you know that those 140 characters can also build your business? Read Twitter Success Stories: How 11 companies are achieving their marketing objectives, 140 characters at a time.
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