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5 ways social media listening increases customer advocacy

Sprout Social

Social listening plays a vital role in this area. Tapping into social media conversations points to customer insights that go beyond surface-level metrics and unearth the real needs, desires and pain points of your audience. This is helpful because people trust people more than traditional, self-centered advertising.

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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

Iā€™m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as ā€œ the original social media agency ā€ because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

There was no question really when Microsoft offered. I put in four amazing years with Microsoft Advertising and made life long friends in the process. I never imagined Microsoft would lay anyone off, but the economy had other plans. Hell, Microsoft throws away millions of dollars on everything you could imagine.

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LinkedIn's Advertising Business is on the Rise, While User Engagement Remains Solid

Social Media Today

Microsoft has reported that LinkedIn revenue increased 23% in the most recent quarter, ahead of expectations.

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Me & Microsoft: Round 2

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Microsoft / Me & Microsoft: Round 2 | Subcribe via RSS Me & Microsoft: Round 2 March 7th, 2010 Posted in Microsoft Tweet Share 10 months ago, I had the misfortune of being one of many Microsoft casualties in their rounds of layoffs.

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Me & Microsoft: Round 2

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Microsoft / Me & Microsoft: Round 2 | Subcribe via RSS Me & Microsoft: Round 2 March 7th, 2010 Posted in Microsoft Tweet Share 10 months ago, I had the misfortune of being one of many Microsoft casualties in their rounds of layoffs.

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The Average Social Media Privacy Policy Takes an Hour to Read

The Realtime Report

The Average Social Media Privacy. To see how long it would take you to read privacy policies from top tech and social media companies, we compared them to the average amount of time it would take someone to read some iconic historical and literary works (weā€™re talking the US Constitution, Communist Manifesto, Magna Carta, etc.).

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