Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 7, 2010

through co-creation and crowdsourcing ) and customer service ( Best Buy and Comcast for example) to human resources (outstanding HR tweeps: Sharlyn Lauby and Alicia Arenas ) and sales groups. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Post on Google Buzz.

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Josh S Peters

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The key is to always start with the goals, then the customer behavior, and then the content followed by SEO optimization and social activation being amplified by paid methods as necessary. For example, if there are specific forums your customers frequent then look at sponsoring threads or putting ads there.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 15, 2010

It supports a brand, and needs to integrated with other marketing and PR activities rather than treated as a separate island (just as, for example, a company’s search and display advertising should communicate a consistent message). The business value of blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, LinkedIn connections, etc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

Take for example your classic white paper. Why not create a blog post, Twitter tweet and even a podcast or video on it to help promote it and activate the social spheres on your latest content at a fraction above your content marketing spend. Share this on Linkedin. Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As an example, Bloomberg Businessweek cites that fewer than 4,000 Facebook users have clicked the “like” button for Fidelity’s Page and about 9,000 have done so for Vanguard’s. As another example, Schwab, which began sending Twitter feeds in mid-June 2010, has 277 followers. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 24, 2010

Because social media is fundamentally about conversations, the individual(s) behind your social media activities is often perceived as the public face of your company. While offshoring works well for tasks like IT consulting services and software application development, it tends to be less efficacious for market-facing activities.

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SocialFish

JANUARY 8, 2011

In terms of culture , think LinkedIn (minus the recruiter spam), not Facebook. The site is very actively moderated , so the questions have to be asked in a particular way, so it’s not personal to the questioner, and so it’s not a yes/no answer. My very early verdict? And potentially awesome for associations and nonprofits.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You can post your email address, use a WordPress contact form plugin , or incorporate an interactive business card (see the upper-right of this blog for an example) on your blog. Blogging is a social activity. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

For example, “Here is my review of the best restaurant in New York (link pointing to your business).” If you didn’t have the ‘no-follow’ tag, spammers would create thousands of Facebook profiles, LinkedIn profiles, and YouTube accounts just to link those sites back to their website. Very active with highly engaged users.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

For example I get: Social Media reports, Blog data reports, Website data reports, Campaign data reports, Launch result reports, Traditional Media reports, Lead reports and of course Budget reports to name just a few. Share this on Linkedin. Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Facebook reports more than 400 million active users as of March 2010), flock to social media networks to chat, flirt, swap photos, and talk with each other, companies have the chance to tune into these conversations. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon. As millions of people (e.g. Email this to a friend? Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 28, 2011

After downloading the plugin (as of this writing, for free) from the website: [link] , WordPress site owners can go through the process of installing and activating this plugin. For example, many people were adversely affected by the recent Google Panda update. Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on LinkedIn. Tweet This!

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

Examples of such changes includes migrating a blog’s commenting system from one platform to another, or adding a new plugin that changes the way that posts are entered into the system. For example, if I were to have a list for promoting posts on my own site, it would look like this. For example, you could include: Site.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Here is my personal example of applying this strategy. All my profiles on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn repeat these exact two messages, in the exact same form. Please share your message below in the comments as an example to others looking to create theirs! Related Posts.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 5, 2008

19 am Recruiting Lessons from Google Jump to Comments How does Google manage to be different everytime Their recruitment advertisement in today’s Times of India Ascent is another example that ! Books on my Plate August 6, 2008.3:19 The world’s no.1 OTOH, a candidate screens the right companies for his job.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2010

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? For example, if John Doe clicks through to your website from a tweet and buys something, that’s easy to measure.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Let us say, if you are a beverage company examples of some objectives could be: Attract my target audience and build a loyal fan base. The success or failure criterion of your activities will depend on these metrics. Make a list of these objectives and prioritize these in the order of importance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Thought Linkedin would have deserved a slot. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo!

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 18, 2010

Take iPhone coupons questions, for example. This site is sufficiently active enough to provide some great information that’s updated regularly, it’s moderated well so there’s no spam or irrelevant content, and it has a simple interface so new users integrate quickly. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 22, 2010

If you are not yet vigorously active on Facebook, take another look at what they are up to: depending on whose stats you believe Facebook is either right behind Google nipping at its heels or has already surpassed them in terms of traffic. The Social Media Examiner page is a great example. Social Media Audit.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Choose metrics that make the most sense for the tactics you’re employing, and monitor results to determine which activities to increase and where a change of course may be needed. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon. Social Events (e.g., Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

It enables users to perform slashtag searches, so for example, rather than just searching for “social media marketing&# and getting a zillion results of all types, you can search for “social media marketing /blogs&# to see only results from blogs. Share this on LinkedIn. Share it on StumbleUpon. Post on Google Buzz.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Let’s get ready to rumble… Generic network: StumbleUpon : In the blue corner we have Stumbleupon – one of the largest social bookmarking sites on the web. While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Brief Overview of StumbleUpon Since everyone is mostly raving about Twitter and Facebook as of late, I’m going to briefly define StumbleUpon and explain how it works. This description of StumbleUpon has been taken from the book: StumbleUpon [is] a social content discovery engine with bookmarking features.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. FriendFeed’s activity for me has ebbs and flows. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Schedule those important activities in your weekly calendar. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. I do incorporate stock photos especially in the headers to draw attentiion to my posts when I link to them in Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 29, 2010

40 examples of typography inspired in web design. Be selective about your activities. 5 powerful steps to optimize your business on LinkedIn. StumbleUpon etiquette guide and how to share in mass again. What is a good starting budget for an online business ? Businesses can help Foursquare survive. Graphic / Web Design.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 18, 2015

I’m not saying to stop your social activities. Besides that, and more importantly, you need to own a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn company page and a Pinterest business page in order for you to advertise on those social platforms. LinkedIn: This is geared for a more business audience. Keep them by all means.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. The first is personal.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 22, 2010

If you are not yet vigorously active on Facebook, take another look at what they are up to: depending on whose stats you believe Facebook is either right behind Google nipping at its heels or has already surpassed them in terms of traffic. The Social Media Examiner page is a great example. Social Media Audit. Bookmark to: Hide Sites.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » Getting Mass Traffic from StumbleUpon: A Definitive Guide Getting Mass Traffic from StumbleUpon: A Definitive Guide Written by Glen, this post has 83 Comments Many bloggers end up having a love-hate relationship with StumbleUpon.

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The Marketing Blog

JANUARY 5, 2009

Via Carf We’re witnessing more and more offline discussions about this subject, newer breed of quality bloggers who’re providing their perspective, research activities being carried about and even some very unique & collaborative efforts in online blogging. Latest example is Obama.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. As long as there’s a healthy balance in their activities, I don’t see a problem.

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