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How Marketers are Monetizing Social Media

Jeff Esposito

Social media is a lot like search marketing and is something that should be looked at with lens similar to both paid and organic social media. The paid side is the one that focuses on advertising ventures across the social platforms. Since Facebook owns their platform, the only real option is to adapt. No One-Sized Solution.

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Why should I like your brand?

Jeff Esposito

This in-store real estate will also help increase exposure to these companies’ social profiles, so you would think that there would be something in it for the customers connecting on a social platform right? When I peeped out the profiles on my phone I found: Facebook – one-way communications and push marketing.

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How Marketers are Monetizing Social Media

Jeff Esposito

Social media is a lot like search marketing and is something that should be looked at with lens similar to both paid and organic social media. The paid side is the one that focuses on advertising ventures across the social platforms. Since Facebook owns their platform, the only real option is to adapt. No One-Sized Solution.

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Facebook’s the crack and we’re all greedy junkies

Jeff Esposito

A recent Facebook update changed how brands are able to get content onto users’ news feeds. As someone who manages social media internally for a brand, my initial thought was, “Hey, this sucks.” From a Facebook user standpoint, I implore you to take off the brand/agency/social guru hat for a second. Am I right?

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30 Social Media Stats for the C-Suite

Jeff Esposito

In 2011 marketers will increase their social media usage by 75 percent ( Brian Solis ). percent of CMOs say social marketing efforts are effectively integrated into their overall marketing strategy ( MarketingProfs ). 97 percent of the top US charities utilize Facebook in their marketing efforts ( UMass Dartmouth ).

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SXSW 2012 – Social Media’s Maturity Coming Out Party

Jeff Esposito

South by Southwest is often called spring break for nerds – a place filled with techies and marketers looking for the next big thing. Users need their daily fix, making it a destination site and a place that brands need to be active. So it may come as a surprise to you that my biggest takeaway from the conference was maturity.

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How much time should you devote to social media?

Jeff Esposito

Brand Awareness – given the nature of the platform, companies can search for their brand and products or services and see what is being said about them or their space. Brands looking to build brand awareness might spend one to three hours a day building up their presence.