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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

Iā€™m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as ā€œ the original social media agency ā€ because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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PR generalists vs social media specialist?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Can PR agencies respond to the structural changes of social media? From the time I started Strive PR in 2005, it was already evident that social media was transforming public relations practices. Little did I know at that time, that one day I would be on staff leading the charge in social media and content marketing.

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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

I don’t know a marketer out there that would say that influence in social media is not a commodity, if you know how to leverage it. I do however, know a lot of marketers out there, who struggle with determining and identifying influence in social media and because of that, can not leverage it; and that’s NOT a commodity!

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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity SMM

According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006. Buyers appreciate business social media use. Small Business Trends ). 89% of U.S.

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Trust Barometer Reveals Need For Mature Social Media

Dave Fleet

Social media and trust. Deeper within this year’s results, there are some really interesting findings for people in the social media space: The fall of “people like me&#. Trust in ā€œpeople like me,ā€ which peaked in 2006 , fell 11% this year. Social media comes in at the bottom of the list.

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Social Media and the Role it Plays in our Lives

Social Media Marketing

Social media plays such a vital role in our lives now. Social media is a medium that reaches people all around the globe. People are so connected these days; it is true that in the last 15 years, social media has taken the world by storm. How social media gained popularity.

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14 Guiding Principles of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Oddly, I try to tell them what social media can do for them and what it did for me. Social media altered the course of my career. It was somewhere between 2005 and 2006 but that’s when I really started to “understand&# the power of the possibility with social. Always know this.