Buffer Social

OCTOBER 5, 2016

You can apply to be Twitter verified and receive a blue checkmark badge next to your name. It does provide a bit of an ego boost and celebrity moment to see the blue badge, but here’s the real kicker: There are significant business/brand advantages to being Twitter verified. celebrating 25 years in business.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists.

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Socialmedia.biz

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Kimberly-Clark created a BuzzFeed -inspired quiz to discover their own Original Thinker type and then are rewarded with a new emoji badge suitable for social sharing, as well as an invitation to find out about original thinkers at Kimberly-Clark. Please be sure to let me know in the comments. Sounds easy, but easier said than done.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Whether you’re a beachy influencer or a bleeding-edge tech startup, the colour, composition and tone of your posts should feel genuine, and recognizably unique. Perfect your aesthetic. On Instagram—more than any other social media platform— brands live and die by their look. Of course, that’s easier said than done. Hint: please don’t.).

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Stay N' Alive

APRIL 16, 2011

Allan is now in his own startup, I believe as co-founder, this time starting a new, up-and-coming social commerce company called Piick. iActionable provides Foursquare-like reward badges and other items that you can integrate into your own platforms to engage and entice users to stick around.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Lessons Learned from Helping Over 150 Startups with Marketing Part 1: Fundamentals (insight.io): Ilya Lichtenstein has a good three part guide (you can get part 2 and 3 right above the headline of the article) on how startups can be successful with their marketing initiatives, with topics covering targeting, media buys, and building traction.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her latest posts include Java 101: Superlotto , The Joy of Pumpkin: 5 Recipes for Fall , and Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups. Her latest posts include Mahalo Just Gave Me 3 Badges , TV-Friendly Web Browser Kylo Gets Media Center Plugin , and Re-Enable DreamScene on Windows 7. Follow her @jolieodell on Twitter.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

There have been over 140 million comments left on the Huffington Post, and they’ve taken advantage of that by totally overwriting their comment system, creating badges for specific types of users and implementing advanced, automated spam checking controls. Fifteen MILLION dollars was not enough to get him to stop writing about startups.

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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

After all, with death chasing every ad-revenue-fueled startup these days, surely we must have been scrambling over the last few months! Offer additional services at a premium but don’t annoy the member – make it a nice-to-have, or a way of showing value, or a Badge of Honour (for ProAms professional amateurs).

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

3x startup guy, advisor, board member. Prior to joining academia, Gary worked for a Wall Street firm in Chicago and Singapore and as CMO for a succession of online startup firms. Award recipients who wish to display the #Nifty50 badge on their own site may do so by clicking here. He’s a Twitter Top Marketing Professor.

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