Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

35% (173) of the Fortune 500 have active Twitter accounts (a post within the past thirty days); and nearly 50% of the top 100 companies (47) have a Twitter account. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. This represents a six percent increase over the 2008 study.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Allow your listening activities to determine what forms of social media you will use. Choose the right outlets. Good advice, however, I would move question #5 to above #3.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 20, 2022

The web is a fairly rhythmic place and every year there are waves of activity across search engines and other websites that are quite predictable. Everytime a blockbuster movie is released people hit the seach engines looking for reviews. The list could go on… and on. As you can see, it’s very predictable stuff.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. Seven minutes after that, it had 2661 Diggs.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Social networking sites (SNS). 73 percent of teens and 72 percent of Gen Y are now active on at least one SNS. 71 percent of young adults prefer Facebook while 66 percent of younger teens prefer Myspace. The survey also showed that teens are significantly less likely that Gen Y and adults to use Twitter.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 22, 2010

Social Media Contests - Participation Is Not Always Easy To Come By By Mike Kornacki Give away something for nothing and people will say “yes please.” By nature, people do not want to do a whole lot to get something especially if the activity will step outside the bounds of their normal daily routine. Let’s talk about your farmer list.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 20, 2010

When did Twitter become the dumping ground for all of your online and mobile activity? Its okay to supplement your Twitter activity with some syndicated content, but like I said in Part 1 , its important to not overdo it and run the risk of becoming a robot. #FAIL Just because you CAN, doesnt mean you SHOULD. What do you think?

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Firebelly

MARCH 11, 2010

Students that participated actively were invited to have lunchwith Professor Brian Benedict and Duncan at Firebelly client (of course) YATSon Massachusetts Ave. As part of the presentation, he presented the concept ofpersonal branding, and finding a path in life that works with your values, interests,and lifestyle.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 20, 2022

The web is a fairly rhythmic place and every year there are waves of activity across search engines and other websites that are quite predictable. Everytime a blockbuster movie is released people hit the seach engines looking for reviews. The list could go on… and on. As you can see, it’s very predictable stuff.

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How To Eventful Trends Engineering 26

Social Media Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

Simply stated, the site is a visual bookmarking tool. Neiman Marcus and Whole Foods do this particularly well: Pinterest is bound to become a powerful engine for e-commerce, more so than the promise of "F-commerce" from Facebook, I think. Why It Works And really, this approach is parallel to the way I think Pinterest is different.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 29, 2010

Data Shows That Social Behavior Gets More Followers By Dan Zarrella The linguistic analysis engine behind TweetPsych has given me a bunch of cool data points to analyze, so I’ve begun to look at various factors and their relationship with follower counts. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Here is an excerpt about the integration with Facebook and the PS3 : “By linking your PlayStation Network account to your Facebook account, you will have the option for the PS3 to automatically update your Facebook News Feed with Trophy and PlayStation Store activity," writes PSN director Eric Lempel.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 15, 2010

A Small Business Using Social Media Brilliantly With No Budget By Niall Harbison Rather than highlighting what we think they are doing right and looking at it from the outside we decided to ask Lorraine Fanneran who is behind all their social media activity to give us a run through of what is and what isn’t working for them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. It’s instant.

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Group lists top five social media risks for businesses By Sharon Gaudin As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise, an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. It seems the activity level has fallen off. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Firebelly

MAY 21, 2010

Firebelly Memo: Take the time to identify, approach and engage those people most active on your Facebook page. Image: daskar ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. They may become your brands best friend. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), As for social media, people must keep in mind that being active is a huge part of the success of any avenues of social media. Be active show that you are a valuable resource to your “followers&#. Don’t self promote.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Remember Twitter is basically a giant word of mouth engine and your goal is to get people talking and then to keep them talking. Work on building outposts for your content on social bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious to help get more exposure for it. People will come to know the product through you and vice versa.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. The social side is interesting when it comes up in B2B or B2C. bookmarking. Go join that!

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well. Penguin, announced in April 2012, decreased search visibility of websites that participated in black-hat SEO, keyword stuffing, cloaking, link schemes , duplicate content, and other activities that violated Google Webmaster Guidelines.

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yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

It’s obvious that social media will continue to have a significant impact in 2014 on marketers and business owners: They now have the ability to reach out and communicate on a personal level with their target audience on a daily basis. Here are my Best Tips for Successful Social Media and Digital Marketing in 2014. billion users.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Then, listen to their social media activity and determine what content would meet their needs… not yours. 6) Setting up channels, placing links to them on your Website and then ignoring the social channels is a really good way to p**s people off in the social space. Don’t be that business.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 23, 2011

Virtually every social media monitoring tool worthy of the label covers the big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit) and content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr). News can travel extremely fast through social media. Monitoring beyond social media.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

But fundamentally, 1) there are now far more online venues than just your website or blog where you and/or your company be found (social media pages and profiles, articles, videos, etc.), Why B2B Marketers Should Leverage Flickr by Search Engine Land. Social referrals: How to attract this vital currency by iMedia Connection.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

10 Ways to Be a Great Social Media User (Search Engine Journal): Vince Blackham writes a great post on Search Engine Journal about how to be a great social media user, with tips such as contributing, diversifying your efforts, being real, being meaningful, and more. No, it’s not about the tools!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2011

How can you improve your blog’s position in search engines? In another guest post, Pat Flynn details five benefits of actively responding to comments on your blog, such as the fact that doing so encourages more comments: “People don’t leave comments just so they can be left unread. Grow your audience? obvious (e.g.,

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? A powerful real-time social search engine that not only displays results for a specified term or phrase, but lets you filter results by source (e.g.,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. This description of StumbleUpon has been taken from the book: StumbleUpon [is] a social content discovery engine with bookmarking features. Great, now we have that out of the way. Seriously?!

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ProBlogger

JULY 10, 2017

I was able to bring some readers across from that, I was ranking relatively well in search engines already, and I was bringing in that kind of traffic from search. I particularly was drawn to social bookmarking sites. Back then, it was site like Digg. It was social bookmarking sites or another big blog would link up.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Anyone who knows a good search engine optimization expert knows that keyword stuffing is not an approved tactic. Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Adam Singer identifies situations where social media marketing doesn’t make sense (e.g. Aliza Sherman supplies an outstanding list of “basic ways you can use LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter for specific business activities. Social Media Metrics and ROI. So, Your CEO Wants to Tweet! Related Post. Share this on Bebo.

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Social Media Tools Tips ROI 198

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Then I would suggest you hold on to your blogging dream for the moment, until you become a more active follower of the blogosphere. In a world dominated by one search engine, we all know Google rewards bloggers for being honest with their readers, but tend to forget that actual people can reward us even more for keeping it real.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

How to: Calculate the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign (Mashable): Jamie Turner offers suggestions on understanding qualitative, quantitative, and ROI metrics. The Perfect Social Media Measurement Plan (Search Engine Land): Brian Massey illustrates a system that gives reliable conversion data to a spreadsheet automatically.

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