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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

Trends in consumer marketing are showing that consumers want less advertising and more interaction. Facebook Exchange (FBX) is an advertising service that allows brands to serve targeted ads based on interactions on Facebook. What's in question is how users will react to it. An interesting pairing of articles from Inc.

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Volkswagen: The fun theory

Laurel Papworth

I’m a huge fan of advertising campaigns in social spaces that are fun, narrative, a game, and not in your face. This one meets all that criteria and more: Fun, educational, something that bonds people into a temporary community, with – as far as I can see – little in your face advertising from Volkswagen.

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Brands Cannot Be Human

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Enter Madison Avenue, which mixed advertising messages with psychology in the hope that a large group of people would feel emotionally connected to a product. And buy it. In today's world, most products and services are decent; in the old days, you could use advertising to sell something severely sub-par. Lots of it. brandsconf.

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. Most others were opinions – best way to buy art online? fill the dome with automotive antifreeze. Set up or connect with an innovation crowdsourcing community. is a bust – Advertising doesn’t work (6). More lowbrow than high brow.

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Building a 7-Figure a Year SEO Company…by Marketing to the Medical Field

Viper Chill

Niche publications are very expensive to advertise in. Plus for marketing you could do local event sponsorships and do good in your community. Since we’re attracting clients online here, that would eradicate the need for being a vendor at conferences and advertising in niche publications.

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Once a unicorn, always a unicorn: Flock Freight’s Bob Wolfley on disruptive innovation, creativity and social careers

Sprout Social

His passion led him to earning a degree in advertising and launching social media accounts for new chapters of his international fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. What are the different formats that we can use to engage community or produce content? There is no silver bullet to getting buy-in for risks—big or small.

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Essential Tips and Tools for B2B Social Media Marketing

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On LinkedIn companies like Adobe , Microsoft , Pinterest , and Google take advantage of Showcase pages to cater to different communities. For example, Recaro makes seats for various industries, including automotive and aerospace. Unlike B2C, the B2B sales process takes time, persistence, and buy-in from multiple parties.

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