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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. Nine in ten consumers read reviews before making a purchase, so building review functionality into your community makes sense.

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8 Important Influencer Marketing Trends to Watch Right Now

Hootsuite

Lorenz traces its social media etymology way back to 2011 on YouTube. The capital-C treatment gives creators the option to choose the term for their profile badge. We're continuing to test private like counts in Feed for all users to ensure this change can benefit the community at large and we're excited to share more soon.? ?

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Tips for Starting a New Facebook Fan Page

Kikolani

At the bottom of it was a badge saying it was created with the free version of Pagemodo. If you’re just getting started with Facebook fan pages for yourself or your business, or you want to learn more ways to get your fan page more community, fans, and engagement, be sure to check out these resources.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live !: It’s pretty exhaustive too.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. How to Manage Successful Social Media Promotions (Mashable): How can you get feedback from social channels to offer exclusive deals to your followers on social media communities?

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Alice is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies (due out in March 2011). She is co-authoring a Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies book scheduled to be released in March 2011, and is a regular author at Social Media Examiner. Follow her @aliventures on Twitter.

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Social media training on Foursquare Google Plus Pinterest Facebook Training for June and July 2012

Laurel Papworth

Google Plus reached 49 million members (Dec 2011) in only a few months! Google Plus reached 49 million members (Dec 2011) in only a few months! Understand Partner Badges and learn about case studies and campaigns that have used Foursquare successfully – or otherwise! Reward and promote with discounts and vouchers.