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Nine Benefits of Using Social Proof in Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

People praising a product or brand through ratings and reviews increases its credibility and authority. Testimonials: People who bought a product or service provide short, quotable statements reflecting their positive brand experiences. Having an expert talk positively about your product can improve trust and enhance brand credibility.

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Does your brand take bloggers seriously?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Brands are flocking to Facebook but are overlooking the significant opportunities and value that bloggers bring to digital marketing initiatives, according to the T echnorati 2013 Digital Influence Report. However brands are spending 57% of their social budgets on Facebook and only six per cent on blogs. Bloggers are important in PR.

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The Trouble With Online Advertising

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Is online advertising any good? They initially sold us on 'banner' advertising by telling us that display ads would be so much more effective than static print ads because people would interact with them. Last week, DigiDay ran the news item titled, The Ad Contrarian's Reality Check. Hoffman is direct and to the point.

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Social Networks See Majority of Traffic Coming From Mobile

The Realtime Report

.” A new report from the comScore Data Mine compares desktop vs. mobile usage for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Vine and Snapchat. Are advertising dollars following this shift? Social Media Statistics comScore Data Mine desktop mobile mobile social networking social networking statistics'

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Why Your Marketing Needs Real-Time Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Another Advertising Week in New York is upon us and so far I have seen some great presentations from companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quantcast, comScore, and even Yahoo! I presented at Advertising Week and that is the exact topic I wanted to drill into – How to be relevant by using real-time data about your audience!

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Developing A Branded App For Your Business

The Realtime Report

Developing A Branded App For Your Business. What if your brand could be one of those? According to a report from ComScore , we’ve long passed the tipping point between how many people access the web via mobile devices versus the traditional desktop. Do you really want to trust your advertising to a mobile ad network?

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Google's Third Wave Of Innovation

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It''s hard to reconcile how a company that was founded on a search engine (and then optimizing an advertising platform so efficiently that it drove them to a $350 billion market cap) could be spending its war chest on technology so nascent and future-focused. Adding some data to this, comScore''s February 2014 U.S.

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