Social Media Marketing

MAY 22, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

You all know the story of the breakthrough of Facebook, there’s no need to go into detail about the history of the ever growing and almost 1 billion strong social network. In short, as Facebook started to dominate the social media sphere, Myspace was quickly forgotten. Justin Timberlake(@jtimberlake) September 24, 2012.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 1, 2012

What to do…It’s 2012 and you’ve been blogging for almost a year now with no success. Maybe it’s time to rethink whether the you’ll be able to quit your job in 2012 to become the next Pete Cashmore of the Web. Share this on LinkedIn Share this on Tumblr Share this on del.icio.us Do more! ??

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Gartner recently reported that smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2012 went up to 207.7 Hootsuite is a social media management app that businesses can use to increase their social media presence. Here are some innovative apps that can legitimately increase a company’s brand presence as well as sales.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 23, 2012

Google has started giving social media a lot of importance. It rewards sites that incorporate the core SEO principles and social media strategies by ranking them on page one and keeping them there. Incorporating social media into SEO. You need to have a three-month (90-day) content strategy.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 17, 2013

Instead of asking your friends about for instance a job opening through a status update, you can now search for e.g. “friends of friends who work within social media in my area”. Similar Posts: Ad Opportunities on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr. How to Meet Your Consumers’ Social Media Expectations.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 9, 2013

Consumers are fundamentally ahead of brands when it comes to technology and social media. Brands are still grappling with basic social media chops, better conversion on e-commerce sites and nearly nowhere to be found when it comes to providing value through a mobile device. You may have heard this line before.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. In 2012, she’ll be just as busy. Colin Wright. Derek Halpern.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 20, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 55 High Quality Free Tumblr Themes and Widgets – This post includes some stunning free themes, widgets, and applications that will permit you improve your Tumblr experience.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 18, 2014

Image via BigStockPhoto.com Since the days of yore, marketing strategy has been designed for the same purpose: sell more stuff. This beast is in a constant state of flux, whether you’re heads-down in social, search, or any ad space with more than a smidgen of competition. DataSift Who is Datasift?

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. What will likely be the hot trends in social media over the next couple of years? Social Media Stats and Demographics. Social media and blogs reach 80% of all U.S.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

The history of social media is a long and storied one. It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. So, how old is social media?

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The Social Media Incubator

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A superhighway of social media strategies such as YouTube videos, tweets and Facebook posts, garnering reactions at lightening speeds. According to a recent Pew Internet study , Twitter, a popular social media site for business , is used regularly by just 16 percent of the U.S. adult population.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 28, 2012

Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well). What’s the best process for developing a social media marketing plan?

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yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Social media networks were a novelty 5 years ago, but today their importance is no longer debated. Yes, businesses have definitely realized the power of social media and accepted that social media marketing has to be part of their marketing and PR mix. Social Media is the Game Changer.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 28, 2013

She started off with a hobby blog on Tumblr and now reaches over 50,000 readers each month. Did the need for immediate income affect your blog strategy? I also make money from social media consulting work with businesses in the interiors industry, and a little from job ads. I’ve loved watching her journey. Not really.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Speaking social can sometimes be tough, especially with clients who haven’t yet engaged in social media or sometimes just “don’t get it” Even those clients who do understand and engage in the social space are sometime confused about the use of specific terms and jargon that social media pros use.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 16, 2014

We’ve all heard marketers proclaim that, “content is king,” but the rise in popularity of visual social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, SlideShare and Vine, have ushered in an era welcoming visual storytelling as a breakout marketing trend for 2014. Focus on being useful.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 14, 2015

Business and consumer marketers are nearly unanimous in their belief in the importance of social media to marketing activities. As noted below, the money is following that belief: social media now accounts for about 11% of all digital marketing outlays, and spending on social media marketing will total nearly $10 billion this year.

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Mindjumpers

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Meanwhile teaching, she has held a position as marketing planner at Chendu Media Group. She has always been interested in social media marketing, in particularly in its development in China. But they often don’t realize that they are part of one of the most booming social media markets. The micro blog uprising!

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Or have too many social media marketing statistics.” ” Well, she actually only said the first part (which is debatable), but certainly would have said the second part (which isn’t) had social media been around in the 1930s. How effective is social media in comparison to other digital marketing channels?

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 26, 2013

This is the best time to co-opt a social media course to get your marketing team up and running by developing its social media marketing skills. But social media is a series of dynamic entities that are constantly changing. The Latest Social Media Trends That Will Influence Your Marketing .

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? General Social Media Statistics. Infographic: Social Media ROI Statistics by Digital Buzz.

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ProBlogger

JULY 22, 2014

Now more than ever, marketing experts are improving their marketing strategy with fewer resources, and they are shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like search engine optimization and social media. Pinterest grew 4,377% in 2012 and continues to expand with 25 million users. Source: TechCrunch.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

As the use of social media in marketing has become ubiquitous, marketers have turned their attention to making the use of business social media more sophisticated and strategic. How can marketers help their organizations move from “social media marketing” to “social business”?

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

With Blogger and Tumblr, the total audience is much larger. Advertisers have partnered with bloggers for years, particularly in the women’s lifestyle space, because of the highly targeted and desirable audience (women 18-34), the association with premium content, and high social engagement. billion pages each month.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 3, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros – Here are hot blogging tools used today by 22 social media pros. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 14, 2012

Tweet Have you established a brand presence on the blogging platform Tumblr ? Tumblr boats 24 billion posts and 59 million blogs, which are numbers that continue to rise every day. Tumblr’s functionalities. Set a strategy. Point out whom you are trying to reach and how Tumblr can help you reach them.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

This is Episode 20 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Read on for insights from Katie and our Social Media Stat of the Week ( this week : 47% of B2B companies do not track brand mentions on social media). This episode features Katie Morse of Billboard.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 31, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012! Create a “toolbox” of freebies that only subscribers get access to (think of it like the free ebook strategy, only kicked up a notch).

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 17, 2012

So, here is this year’s list, the top ten public relations blunders of 2012. Meghan Casserly of Forbes reported on social media backlash from iconic women, such as author Judy Blume and U.S. With 2012 marking its 100 th anniversary, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) should have enjoyed a banner year. Pink Ribbon Pink Slip.

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