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How to Create a Brand Community: A Step-by-Step Process

Social Media Strategies Summit

Build a strong brand and you will get yourself a strong community of loyal customers and brand advocates. Some might argue that a strong community is what makes a brand stronger and loyal customers are the best way to promote a brand. But what is a brand community and why do you need one?

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How to Run a Social Media Competitive Analysis

Social Media Strategies Summit

And even if you manage to figure that out, you’re still fighting for attention with other brands in your niche. But it’s one of the most effective tools for identifying your true competitors — not just the brands you think you’re competing with, but those actively targeting the same audience as you. Do they have a branded hashtag?

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[DIGITAL TIPS] Combining SEO And PPC To Advance Your Marketing Strategy

SocMed Sean

Because Google now places ads at the top of the search results pages, you can buy your way to the top of the page with an AdWords ad campaign. Because Google places ads at the top of the search results pages, you can buy your way to the top with a PPC campaign. Which strategy is better?

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Are Brands Ready For The Instagram Economy?

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For most brands, when they think of Instagram, three ideas probably enter their noggins: 1. That there is currently no dramatic sign of advertising or marketing on this platform (making it difficult for brands to figure out an angle). What if there was a way - a real way - for brands to make money (serious money) on Instagram?

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Panda vs eBay — Don’t Poke The Bear

Small Business Mavericks

In regard to AdWords — here are my thoughts on that portion of the article: If you are going to run an AdWords campaign but not manage it properly, you should not be surprised that it does not work. eBay created a major AdWords campaign that was by all accounts completely spammy. Moral: don’t be spammy.

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Building an Ecommerce Business: From Zero to $100,000 in Revenue from Instagram Ads

Buffer Social

Remi’s first port of call was Google AdWords, but after a few trial runs with PLAs (product list ads) and search ads it wasn’t really working. What Remi found was that the keyword “stickers” is saturated by people looking to print their own stickers, rather than buy pre-made stickers. Building a brand on Instagram.

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Top Marketing Trends for 2013

yMarketingMatters

Consumers rely on social media to research and make buying decisions and for customer service issues. There are many ways to go mobile: creating a responsive website (above), sending out mobile-optimized emails, undertaking mobile advertising, using Google Adwords for mobile and mobile SEO. Here we go: Social Business Has Risen.

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