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Case Study and Lessons Learned: Increasing Foot Traffic for Retail Using Social Media and Event Marketing

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Listen: They had previously done an influencer campaign which produced a short burst, but didn’t create anything sustainable and they couldn’t figure out why. Think: After hearing about their previous experience, Akamai determined the influencer campaign fell flat because the influencers weren’t neighborhood influencers.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

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The real real, not the real you’re used to polishing, brushing and over airbrushing…leave that “real&# in the advertising world where it belongs. As your community learns to trust YOU, they’ll see that you’re real and no Cheshire Cat, this will make relationships easier to develop. Real is better.

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5 things to measure in social media ROI

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CPC: Cost per Click advertising is still a highly effective way to drive traffic to a website, but how does social media compare? AVE: Advertising Value Equivalent is something that PR professionals have been using for years. Essentially, AVE looks at earned media and assigns a value to it based on equivalent advertising rates.

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Tool Tuesday: Qwitter

Akamai Marketing

Yes, the free version includes advertising, but I don’t mind the advertising – after all, someone has to pay for the services I’m receiving. What I like: Unobtrusive: Its a single email once a day. The paid version provides for ad-free emails.

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What the ComScore Digital Year in Review means for small biz marketers

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The recent release of ComScore’s Digital Year in Review provides detailed information on search and advertising. If you thought that 2010 was a big year for digital marketing, you were right.

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