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What's your social currency?

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By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. Yet, according to HubSpot, brands who connect via the social sphere see a direct impact on sales.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

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

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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Where WikiBrands differs is that it incorporates all those key subjects and more while also discussing the often ignored role of the brand. Branding is particularly relevant for small and medium sized businesses or start-ups who are looking to start or increase their social media voice.

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Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. Why do I like it?

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

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The NHL is already using this Twitter extension to connect its brand with fans. Will brands start holding Tweet-ups for their followers that are sponsored? You can’t sponsor Twitter – but you can sponsor Twitter-ups. When will tradeshows start hosting Tweet-ups around the country to build momentum for their events? I think so.

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Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile makes appearance in Hawaii | Akamai.

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Here’s to hoping all event marketing campains are as successful and impact a brand so successfully! Besides the business wisdom of the Weinermobile campaign, its easy to appreciate a hot dog on wheels that jams out to “I wish I had an Oscar Meyer Weiner&# in different genres, including dance music.

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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

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But if you use blogging as a tool, whether for personal branding or corporate exposure, you’ll quickly see that these two tools don’t tell the whole story. Share and Enjoy: Tags: analytics , engagement 2 Comments Melanie Baker Posted February 8, 2011 at 2:59 PM Hi Tara, Thanks for the overview. Anyway, hope that helps.

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