Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Despite this, fans are passionately supporting and discussing their teams through a range of social media outlets, in particular Twitter and Facebook. In the table below the 32 NFL teams are ranked by the total number of followers/fans on their official Twitter accounts and Facebook pages.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? by Adam Sherk on June 15, 2010 I have done several posts on news organizations and Facebook recently so I thought it was time to switch things up and look at Twitter again. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3%

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SocMed Sean

JULY 11, 2018

Great question came to me yesterday regarding the activity of link-building through guest blogging. Thought this answer might help those out there who are wondering whether back-link building is even a worthwhile activity anymore. Historically, it has been a pretty fundamental activity with regards to search engine optimization (SEO).

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

If you thought that 2010 was a big year for digital marketing, you were right. The report is quite detailed and as you consider your marketing strategies for 2011 (provided you haven’t already done so), the report is full of tidbits that can help you make decisions. Let your customers make friends with one another too.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? So what should NBA teams be doing on Twitter and Facebook?

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Survey: Twitter Less than 1% of Traffic to Newspapers and Magazines; Facebook 1% by Adam Sherk on March 2, 2010 For my presentation on Twitter Marketing Tactics at SMX West this week I wanted to get a sense of just how much traffic Twitter is driving to major news sites.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. Find new customers through your friends: You shouldn’t neglect your personal social media accounts as potential avenues to promote the activities of your business.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 19, 2010

You can also find me on Twitter before during and after. When combining social media with other interactive marketing practices, the results can magnify both. When combining social media with other interactive marketing practices, the results can magnify both. This post was mentioned on Twitter by prblogs, twitips MV.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 1, 2011

That is to say, you feel like things are going great, you’re having engaging conversations regularly and feel as though you even have some “friends&# in Twitter. This simple to use and free (for basic) service alerts you everyday to your latest Twitter Unfollows. Its easy to get lulled into a false sense of success.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

All of these are things you can set on autopilot with the help of a 3rd party, but you can not do it directly from Twitter. Welcome Direct Messages are both a useful tool and the bane of the Twitter existence. A DM is essentially a private message within Twitter; the person whom your sending the DM to has to be a follower.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. Fox News is strongly ahead in terms of fan engagement and activity – their like and comment numbers are significantly greater than any of the other sites. NPR 489,413 513.5

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But 57% also indicated that they plan to increase their focus on SEO: That’s good news, because even just 2-3 years ago many companies’ efforts to integrate SEO and PR activities did not extend much beyond press release optimization. That’s certainly important but it’s just one tactic; there are a lot more opportunities to explore.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

As each year passes, blog marketing techniques evolve. If you’re a business, you may have the luxury of hiring an awesome Internet Marketing Company to keep up with the trends, but as individuals managing a blog for as a hobby or for profit, it’s up to you to not only maintain that blog but keep up with ways to increase traffic.

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Twist Image

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It has changed the way I learn and grow and it has changed how I think about the world (and business and marketing and media and beyond). As fast and simple as it is to publish content with a Blog, success with a Blog as an engine of Marketing is a slow process. I write about business, marketing and media hacking.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

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

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

a thousand cuts :: adam cohen's blog About Blogroll Contact a thousand cuts conversations about social media and interactive marketing by adam cohen 16 JUL I Will Not Write About Old Spice Posted by: adam / Tags: Advertising , Isaiah Mustafa , Old Spice , Social Media , Television , YouTube / Comments: View Comments I will resist the urge.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

To investigate further I did a quick check for Twitter activity. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It also breaks down where engagement events are occurring for the time period (comments, Digg, Twitter). While most of this isn’t a surprise if you are monitoring your social media efforts, it is helpful to see it so cleanly laid out and including other sources besides Twitter. Love how easy it is to read and interpret.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Now the focus is decidedly more tactical with sites looking to understand how to maximize the benefits of their efforts and better integrate them with other marketing initiatives. PostRank has a comparison tool that uses its Domain Activity API to measure total engagement based on user participation across multiple social platforms.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Think beyond the marketing team. If you can’t think of what to blog about, get inspiration from the news, industry occurrences, message boards and other communities where your customers are hanging out. Let your talented employees be your bloggers – ask for volunteers to start. Have fun with it and so will your customers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

As privacy and choice gained momentum, permission-based Internet activity has led to what we now describe as the social web. As the social web penetrates virgin markets, improvising on what is exclusively perceived as an urban commodity, the next big thing could well be the semi-urban populace. pts Settings. What did you ship in 2010?

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

Share and Enjoy: Tags: event marketing , events No Comments Start the ball rolling by posting a comment on this article! By taracoomans – March 9, 2009 Posted in: economy Jack Welch supports events and their business uses. All Rights Reserved.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

Ok fans could care less about that, but for myself and some sports and social media marketers out there it’s an interesting question. In my post on the most popular NBA teams on Twitter and Facebook (and the more recent one on MLB teams ) I looked strictly at the following each team has built up. 2527 2 Denver Nuggets 151,165 784.3

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

According to Ruder Finn the page currently has a daily active user base of over 10,000 fans. Some marketers have felt that the guidelines are too limiting or controlling, but among other things Facebook is trying to prevent significant manipulation of the news feed. And many fans are coming back regularly.

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Saying It Social

APRIL 21, 2010

Your Friends Find out what your friends have liked, shared, and commented on through the Activity Feed and Recommendations social plugins. These features enable you to share the things you care about on Facebook and with other visitors to that website through the activity feed and recommendations plugins. What are Social Plugins?

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. I particularly appreciated the process of the FLIRT model.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? Sharing and discussing content is a key component of Google Buzz, so it’s a natural fit for article promotion and audience development. At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

The Social Page Evaluator (SPE) provides an estimated “Annual Page Value” for any single Facebook Page based on the last 30 days of activity. According to its disclaimer the SPE factors in fan count, user activity, brand activity and “a proprietary engagement multiplier” and then calculates an “Earned Media Value” using a default CPM of $5.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Since many stories do not appear to allow comments this results in quite a few “popular” stories with zero comments, which sends a mixed message to users: NewsPulse is still in beta so there’s likely to be some changes based on user activity and input. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

The flip side to that is that not everything gleaned from monitoring social media activity is accurate or reliable. A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. Newspaper journalists were the most likely to report using no social media tools (21%). What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Akamai Marketing

JUNE 28, 2009

Oscar Meyer’s stunt is perhaps the oldest and longest running mobile marketing campaign in the country. Kraft is smart about their event marketing campaign, its integrates nicely with their website , they have a blog and them seem to focus on cities in the DMA 50-100 range. Put it in perspective.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

45 tips to make more money with affiliate marketing – if your affiliate profits aren’t what you would like them to be, try some of these great tips. 8 awesome SEO and online marketing infographics – the top SEO infographics plus a nice list of resources for creating and promoting infographics. Business / Career.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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