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Influencer Engagement: Finding a Fit

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According to influencer marketing platform Musefind, 92 percent of consumers trust an influencer more than an advertisement or even a celebrity endorser. Recently, we had an Earth Day influencer post content about a major, for-profit retail competitor on the same day as our post.

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How To Grow Your Facebook Community

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Run traditional advertising campaigns, and include either a call to action, or show the link, for the Facebook Page. In our case, the client is not a coffee shop or retailer, so this is a real challenge until they have greater name recognition. Ask your customers – directly – to Like the Page. What about organic growth?

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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Similarly, an app called Hurl now allows users to put YouTube videos in a queue in similar establishments by transforming screens into interactive jukeboxes capable of both user-created experiences (such as videos) and experiences spurred by the brand (established advertisements). Holistic media and commerce.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

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Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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The Decision

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Richard Feinberg, at Purdue University’s Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing, certainly doesn’t think so. Feinberg says the most effective Super Bowl commercials are connected to a range of social media, other advertisements and promotions. Few could accurately recall details of the commercials.

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You Should Really be Using Instagram Stories in Your Marketing Mix

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A total of 1 million advertisers currently leverage sponsored Instagram Stories for further brand enhancement. At this time, most marketing-related Stories focus on fitness, fashion, retail, technology, airlines, automobiles, travel, food and drinks. Bottom Line.

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How NOT to Run Your Social Media

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Additionally, in 2009 furniture retailer Habitat decided it might get more traction by including trending hashtags such as #trueblood, #iphone and even #mousavi (who was running in the Iranian presidential election at the time) in tweets about competitions and discounts. Make sure you do it right. How NOT to Run Your Social Media.