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Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards

Kikolani

Today’s companies are quickly recognizing the power that social media tools such as forums and message boards can have for finding new customers and spreading the word about products and services. Among these social media platforms, forums and message boards are the most popular for discussing products and services.

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Blogs, Message Boards and Social Networks Now Daily Destinations for Many Women

Proactive Report

. If you are marketing to women and are not yet fully engaged in blogs and social networks, take note of the latest BlogHer-iVillage 2010 Social Media Matters Study. . 73% of online women are now active social media users, engaging weekly or more often with top social media platforms.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Its so easy to think that because their are millions of blogs (and if you check out Technorati you’ll see that I am write right.) Define your goal.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

do they have a blog, how prominently is it featured, social bookmarking links, social media account links, etc.). • Twitter metrics (followers, following, frequency of tweets, general level of interactivity). followers/fans/circles, how complete is their profile, level of activity). Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e.

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Best Practices for Using Social Media Listening to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social listening can cover the whole of the web, often focusing on sites like blogs and forums alongside social media. About 6,000 tweets are posted every second, not to mention all the activity on every other social platform and website. As you can likely imagine, monitoring the entire internet is no easy task.

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Manage Your Online Reputation in Multiple Languages

Idaconcpts

Don’t forget to include blogs – now major social spaces – in the search. Monitor Message Boards. You can use services such as BoardReader.com, ForumFind.com, Big-Boards.com, BoardTracker.com, iVillage, Yahoo Message Boards, and MSN Money to monitor message board conversations.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Actively pursue users, followers and engage in conversations, even if it doesn’t directly relate to your product or service. Blogging Hands down, WordPress is THE blogging solution. They offer the standard fare including profiles, groups, message boards, multimedia, etc. month option that is ad free.