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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program.

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Social Media Metrics and Conversion

Proactive Report

That’s a big jump from the 42% who used social media in 2008. One aspect that will be dramatically different this year is how companies measure their results. While companies were finding their feet in this new medium, soft metrics such as fans, followers and engagement in conversation have been accepted as a yardstick.

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4 Tips on Effective Anti-Counterfeit Programs

The Realtime Report

4 Tips on Effective Anti-Counterfeit Programs By Tim Waring Anti-counterfeit strategy is a relatively new area of business; 10 – 20 years for the majority of active companies and a few decades old for a few of the earliest entrants. However, in other companies this has been avoided by a commercial pragmatism.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

But, to ensure you aren’t disheartened in the meantime, select success metrics that are appropriate for your goals. Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition.

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My Contribution at PaulWriter.com

The Marketing Blog

With this comes the opportunity; a chance for your company to engage with your prospects, identify and connect with people who would be interested in your product’s next offering. Let us say, if you are a beverage company examples of some objectives could be: Attract my target audience and build a loyal fan base. its nice information.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What makes your company interesting to them?

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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.