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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. ” Today, press releases have to be search-optimized, written for a broader audience of influencers than just journalists, and (ideally) discussed in the right forums. Small Business…Big Coverage!

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5 Reasons I Think Facebook Is On The Decline

Jason Yormark

According to numbers cited on The Inquistir , in April Facebook witnessed 158 million US unique visitors, only 5% higher than 2011 numbers. While 5% growth may not seem horrendous, it’s a drastically big decline from April 2011 when Facebook witnessed 24% growth and far worse than April 2010 when the social network had an 89% growth rate.

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Why ROI isn’t everything with social media

Socialmedia.biz

In 2011, 60% of consumers with purchasing intent were using various social media platforms for researching products, learning more about a specific retailer and reading product reviews. In layman terms, any form of marketing, social media or otherwise, is measured against the profit you generate and the overall cost of operating a business.

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MeasurePR: Paywalls, Pitches And Prognoses

Waxing UnLyrical

Seeing as how it’s coming close to the end of the year and everyone’s in a prediction kinda mood, Jen thought it would be cool to chat about what might be coming our way in terms of PR measurement in 2011. In other words, paywalls , how pitching will be affected if these take off, and prognoses for 2011. Liked what you saw?

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What Was Your Enchanted Moment?

Direct Marketing Observations

Back in 2005 I sent former Apple Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki, an email; and to be honest, I didn’t really expect a response. In 2011, it would appear that my three experiences have come full circle. I got better, but the light really went on from that first experience. The moment was huge for me. That’s pretty cool.

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Voice Search: 6 Invaluable SEO Strategies to Improve Your Rank

Pam Hughes

Although voice recognition has been around since the 1950s, it was only in 2011 when IBM’s Watson came out (you may have seen it beat contestants on Jeopardy! of voice assistant users prefer Apple’s Siri Voice-based shopping will soar to $40 billion by 2022. that it became practical and relevant.

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The Top 20 Brands to Watch at NRF 2019

Pixlee

To prep for the Big Show in the Big Apple, we’ve curated a must-watch list of some famous incumbents and brilliant upstarts that are bringing a fresh take to retail in 2019. Chewy hit the ECommerce scene in 2011 as a pet food & medicine retailer. Are you as excited as us for the NRF EXPO in New York? Stuart Weitzman.

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