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8 Important Influencer Marketing Trends to Watch Right Now

Hootsuite

Considering influencer marketing ? Even if you aren’t, it would be a mistake to ignore influencer marketing trends. Beyond their role as effective brand ambassadors, influencers are also just good marketers. There’s a reason the influencer marketing industry is booming. Influencer has become a bad word. “I

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The 5 Elements Of Successful Influencer Marketing Programs

The Realtime Report

The Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in 2011. “Influencer marketing” is simply the new, fancy way to describe word-of-mouth. . “Influencer marketing” is simply the new, fancy way to describe word-of-mouth. Having influencers who share your content is already a win.

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7 Smart Ways You Can Use TBT To Grow Your Brand on Social

Hootsuite

Well, it often makes for perfect content for your brand. Whether you’re laughing about your early brand flubs or posting pics of your very first office in your parents’ garage, looking back on the past is a great way to keep it light and playful. Here’s why. It happens every week.

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February 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20

Sherrilynne Starkie

I started doing these tables over a year ago to illustrate how being popular (Grader) on Twitter doesn’t necessarily mean you have influence (TweetLevel). But do these tables tell the popular/influence story? There were tweeters with huge numbers of followers who scored very low on the influence scale. phdinparenting.

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March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20

Sherrilynne Starkie

The tables below are meant to illustrate how being popular (Grader) on Twitter doesn’t necessarily mean you have influence (TweetLevel). Very few of the most popular tweeps make the grade on the influence table. Here’s how the Twitter top 20 is compiled: Only real humans are included (no brands, no publishers etc).

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From Free to Exclusive: TweetDeck’s Subscription Shift To XPro

Keyhole.co

However, Twitter’s acquisition of TweetDeck in 2011 brought forth significant changes. Switch from outdated spreadsheets to Keyhole to analyze multiple profiles, brand mentions, campaigns, and influencers instantly. The decision to charge for a previously free tool may seem logical from a business standpoint.

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

Webbiquity SMM

What brand marketers can learn from PR by iMedia Connection. ” 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. How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release by ProBlogger.

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