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Brands: It’s not enough to be liked

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Yet some brands are terribly underutilizing these pages, making them basically brochureware repositories — essentially inviting customers in but not engaging them or giving them an incentive to return. Audience discovery is the use of social data to segment those who talk about your brand into their affinities. But only 0.2

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9 Reasons QR Codes are Bad for Your Brand

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Many brands initially diverted QR Codes from its initial purpose by jumping on the bandwagon as something new and exciting that allowed them to leverage the exploding mobile market to interact with real world products. One place, however, that we are seeing increasing aversion to QR Code use is among consumer-oriented brand marketing.

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10 Reasons Brands Fail to Convert Facebook Fans into Paying Customers

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So, why aren’t brands able to capitalize on that? Below are the 10 most common reasons brands aren’t getting enough love from Facebook users, along with recommendations for better using the tools at their disposal. Most fans won’t ever come back to a brand’s page unless they feel they have good reason to.

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

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Thanks to the Internet, another critical moment for consumer/brand interactions is also getting attention: the Zero Moment of Truth (or ZMOT). According to a study by Google (who came up with the ZMOT concept), before deciding whether or not to buy: 50% of shoppers used a search engine to get more information on a product or brand.

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Using Hashtags as Strategic Objects

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With this evolution, brands are now leveraging the once lowly hashtag as a strategic tool to unify campaigns and connect with customers. Companies like Volvo have taken steps to use specific branded hashtags like #SwedeSpeak and #MyFirstVolvo to interact with specific consumers about particular topics. Be realistic.

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The Missing Link Between Media and Marketing

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To meet the challenge, CMOs have turbocharged Marketing Ops teams and are building their “Marketing Clouds,” leveraging marketing automation to nurture prospects, adding CRM to manage pipeline and customer relationships, while spending millions on branded websites and social pages, coupled with billions on media to promote their offerings.

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Social Branded Applications – build it once and leverage on several social networks

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Social Network have all opened up their platforms which means that brands have cost effective access to more than 500M engaged users (250M of them on just Facebook and MySpace alone!) The new ad model will be about creating social brand loyalty by creating Social Branded Applications that allow users to interact with your brand attributes.