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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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How Obama Sets Online Marketing High

Ari Herzog

It sounds staggering but President Barack Obama will likely break $1 billion in political fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. In 2008, Obama made big headlines when he became the first presidential candidate in the modern era to decline public financing for his presidential campaign.

Marketing 154
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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

Akamai Marketing

Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Here’s the great thing: by their very nature, Twitter-peeps share something in common, making it a very powerful marketing tool. Everyone is doing it.

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4 Tips on Effective Anti-Counterfeit Programs

The Realtime Report

It feels for experienced, battle-hardened brands it is the end of a long first campaign with some introspection of what is proving effective. The much larger traditional core business functions of operations, sales, marketing, finance is where the budget for tackling counterfeits is generated and allocated.

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Tool Tuesday: SocialOomph

Akamai Marketing

Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. All Rights Reserved.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Lurkers turn the tables a bit on marketers. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. All Rights Reserved.