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PLEASE Don’t Visit My Google+ Page! Here’s Why.

SocMed Sean

Its functionality lies somewhere between Facebook and Twitter as a microblogging service that also allows permission controls over who can and can’t see your updates. I use Hootsuite, Buffer and IFTTT to syndicate my content across various social media groups, always ensuring that the right message is being delivered to the right group.

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Why Investors Need to Use Social Media

Convince & Convert

What began as a humble microblogging platform has evolved in recent years to become the most instantaneous news hub on the planet. As well as researching the relevant business leaders and industry influencers, investors can also look into active groups and judge whether, as with the Hunger Games, interest in a particular niche is growing.

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How To Start A Blog In 2012

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I type fast and I make mistakes (and there is a great group of people who send me notes and leave comments, so that I can correct my mistakes), but overall, the flow of the writing has to be readable. I particularly like keyword analysis, because this can give you some immediate insights into the type of words people use to find your content.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. Ideally, if you cover ground on at least two of these traits, your video might have a good chance of success.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? This is the type of analysis great posts are made of!

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You are missing out on tremendous opportunity for growth and performance of competitive analysis. Reply BarbaraKB March 12, 2009 at 10:32 am Good analysis, Tamar. I would also submit that without an analysis, we really do not know if the original champions became more evangelisitic (sychophantic?) as a result of being chosen.

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