agora pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You’ve had your social media marketing agency for a while. Check out our tips for experienced social media managers who want to energize their agencies. Recently I published a detailed guide on How to Start a Social Media Marketing Agency: Step by Step. back in February 2011.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Research released today by LoyaltyOne and two leading North American academic institutions provides the long-awaited proof that social media interaction between a customer and a brand drives immediate and long-term sales increases. Related posts: Facebook advertising facts. Social media in call centres.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 1, 2010

MarketingSherpa recently released its 2011 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. A slightly higher percentage of marketers than last year (41% vs. 39%) called “marketing to a lengthening sales cycle&# a top challenge. You can download the executive summary for free (or pay $400 for the full report ).

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 11, 2012

Tweet Recently, Awarness Inc released a report called The State of Social Media Marketing : Top Areas For Social Marketing Investment and Biggest Social Marketing Challenges in 2012. The It compares the state of social media in 2011 and expectations from 2012, based on this survey.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. this is the integraged digital media framework I use with my clients, no matter the challenge. How Canadians use Social Media.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 18, 2012

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Is your company’s social media strategy really working? Whether you feel that you’ve maxed out the potential of your current social media efforts or you feel like nothing you do is really helping, it’s time to step up your game. Sell Through Social Media. Your staff members do.

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Mindjumpers

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. Mobile marketing is becoming increasingly important. Or that more people own a smart phone than use Facebook? Mobile is part of the mix!

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Mindjumpers

APRIL 4, 2012

Tweet Recently, a report called “How Marketers Are Using Social Media To Grow Their Businesses” was released by Social Media Examiner. The report uncovers the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing. Here are two charts that show the responses.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 1, 2018

NOTE: I originally wrote and published this article back in November of 2011 and it has generated a lot of interest over the years. Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it’s the most mature component of social media. Among the findings: • If you don’t have a blog yet, 2011 is the year to start one. Share this on Facebook.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 18, 2022

Understanding what these niche social media platforms say about the future of social media as a whole can help marketers stay ahead of the trend curve. Vertical social networks are niche social media platforms centered around the interests of hyper-specific communities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 12, 2011

You can follow Tim on Twitter or on Facebook. With Facebook’s recent changes to the layout of fan pages (aka business pages, aka brand pages), has come the opportunity for those with creativity to design a much more compelling and fully branded page. Create a Custom iFrame Tab: Free Facebook iFrame Apps.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 3, 2011

Few phenomena have ever spread as far and grown as rapidly as social media; obviously, this has tapped into something essential to our nature. The answer may come from the email marketing field. That is what has driven social media adoption. This list will be posted on Cheryl Burgess’ Blue Focus Marketing Blog.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics.

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Dave Fleet

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Alongside my ongoing book reading challenge , I start off every day by reading the latest goings-on in the public relations, social media and tech blogosphere. Also: interactive marketing trends and how social media may break down gender stereotypes. Wired: Trolls Pounce on Facebook’s Tahrir Square.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 10, 2012

Another chance to look at the social media universe, analyse the trends and make the strategies. But before starting this, it is always good to look back at how 2011 has been for our different sites and then go on to predict how it would be in future. UK Facebook statistics.

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SocialFish

JANUARY 13, 2011

Out of the many social media-related trends and predictions posts I’ve been skimming lately, this is by far the one that makes the most sense to me from a social business standpoint. Eleven Digital Trends to Watch in 2011. View more presentations from Edelman Digital. Relationship-building, too. for associations.

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Akamai Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This is the 2nd year that I’ve published my social media resolutions. That said, I am glad I wrote my resolutions for 2011 as it gave me focus. Here’s my 2011 scorecard: ? Fine Tune Karma for Business: I kept at this social media mantra this year and it worked for me and it worked for my clients.

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Socialmedia.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

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. According to Sean Jackson , CFO of Copyblogger Media – “Social media marketing is never going to produce an ROI.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Nevertheless, here are my top 10 posts of 2011 by pageviews: Which NBA Teams Have Seen the Most Growth on Twitter and Facebook? Beyond Facebook Insights: Useful Facebook Analytics Tools. Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers? My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 26, 2012

Tweet This infographic from MBA Programs takes a look at how and why social media is going corporate and how small and large businesses alike are tweeting, pinning and posting like never before to gain extra exposure and interact with their customers and fans. Corporate social media usage is skyrocketing. Infographic].

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Forbes Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2022

has uncovered 18 Facebook groups with a total of more than 200,000 members, some dating as far back as 2011 and 2014 - despite Facebook's repeated pledges to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it would crack down on this type of activity on its platform.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 27, 2012

These days, it moves really quickly… we now get to know about earthquakes around the world on social media platforms even before the news reaches broadcasters. Facebook is becoming the ubiquitous answer to all the questions you could possibly have. What made it different?

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yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.

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Dave Fleet

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Meanwhile, Facebook rolls out revamped Page layouts for brands… and then rolls them back, after first taking their site down for a while. I don’t blame him – companies are sinking big money into Facebook nowadays. Because this is one of the busiest times of year for many brands. So: Spread it around. Own your hub.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Is Quora still a significant social media destination? According to Compete.com, traffic to the site did fall off sharply in February and March of 2011 after an initial surge, but has rebounded to new highs since then (though half a million unique visitors per month isn’t particularly impressive for a social media site).

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Twist Image

JANUARY 6, 2011

Any other year, I may have used the words "online channels" instead of "digital channels," but 2010 tilted the marketing world a whole lot more. We also can't ignore the powering growth of Facebook. Over the holiday break, Facebook was named the most visited site in 2010. beating out Google (according to Experian Hitwise )!

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Much of what we’ve come to believe about social media and content marketing is wrong. I crushed them originally a few weeks ago on a webinar for the Content Marketing Institute : Myth 1: My customers are not social. Even among Americans 65 years old and better, 43% of them use social. They are myths.

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Likeable

APRIL 5, 2021

It was the summer of 2007, and Facebook had recently opened up beyond college students, to welcome everyone to its platform. An intern suggested I try Facebook—and after 12 hours of exploring, I was hooked. . We quickly refocused on social media as word of mouth. We quickly refocused on social media as word of mouth. (It

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 9, 2011

Tweet Recently I found an interesting infographic complied by Edelman Digital , (PR agency) on the social media use and trends in Asia. This infographic gives us some interesting insights into social media habits and platforms for better targeting in this part of the world. The Year of Social Media 2010 [infographic].

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The Social Media Incubator

MAY 4, 2011

Social Media Strategist Caroline Melberg spells out the steps to take when you need to change your Facebook identity: So let’s say Jane Doe is an administrator of the “Pretend Company&# page on Facebook. One of the mysteries of Facebook, solved. Tagged as: admin facebook , branding , C.E.L.

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SocialFish

MARCH 1, 2011

The list below is for serendipity ; if you prefer our “Must Read&# shares about important stuff for association social media, please click here to subscribe , or click here to browse. Facebook Page Redesign: Why Should Brand Marketers Care? Got marketing technologists? The Art of Social. Priya Ramesh).

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 6, 2011

Tweet Some time ago, we had a guest post on our blog stating how social media is not a cheaper alternative , even though many marketers think it doesn’t cost much. And this might also result in businesses not knowing whether to really invest in social media, since they do not know the outcome of the effort put into it.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I’m also working with a major tech company on social media efforts, doing some fun “techertainment” projects with some awesome people in the industry, and editing some tech books when the schedule allows. I don’t know if “techertainment” is a thing or not, so if not, (c) 2011 Brandon Prebynski.

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The Social Media Incubator

JUNE 22, 2011

“‘ I can see how social media will work for <fill in the blank … a company not like mine>, but it certainly won’t work for MY type of business!’ When you are marketing your business today, you need to place yourself where your potential customers are spending the most time. &#.

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yMarketingMatters

APRIL 15, 2013

Smartphones and tablets are becoming a paramount marketing consideration, and skyrocketing mobile use has critical implications for business. Mobile marketing should definately be an integral part of your overall marketing strategy. An impressive increase from 35% in 2011 and 44% in 2012. 13% are 18 to 24. are 25 to 34.

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