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How to Use Facebook Messenger for Business

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billion active users per month when you understand that many people actually use it to communicate frequently with brands and companies. users had employed a regular messaging application to connect with a company, as per a Facebook commissioned report. users told a company to book or buy. Builds Trust for the Brand.

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11 Types of Marketing Strategies

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When a new product is launched, customers have to be given a reason to dream and buy it. A company can decide to develop a list of prospects and reach out personally to them. Once these individuals are known, a company can now start to reach out to them in an outbound manner to try and find new customers. Viral marketing.

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How the Economy and Social Media Are Ruining PR

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Companies have slashed both staff and budgets across the board, and public relations is no exception. Still, companies will outsource PR as they always have. With companies reluctant to pay EVP and SVP rates, agencies cannot afford to keep them on. Social media is seen by some companies as the new PR. Here’s how.

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A New Spin on Word of Mouth Marketing

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Today I went into Border’s and practically talked a guy into buying my book. He took it from the shelf and asked me, “What should I expect to learn if I buy this book?&# My wife found it, took it down from the shelf, and turned it facing out to make it easier to locate for knowledge-hungry book buyers.

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Social Media and Your Ever-Expanding Brand

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What is a brand, and, as caretaker of your company’s brand, how does social media affect you? And finally, I define a brand as “the sum total of our experiences with a company, its products, services, and employees, and the way those experiences shape our perception of the company.&# Consider PCs.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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E-mail is far from dead, particularly in large companies. Some companies use Sharepoint and other technologies to manage documents, but many still use e-mail to circulate Powerpoint, Excel, Word and other docs. That might be realistic for startups and small companies, but no way would you find the CEO of Adobe in the company’s booth.

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HP’s Printing 2.0 Is Advantage Over Google

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The company knows how to print things. I was at HP from 2004 to 2007 and one year I was fortunate enough to be a judge at the company’s OneVoice marketing awards. Second, the deal brings something new to consumers, a way to buy books and read them that isn’t exclusively wed to an LCD. That’s right, in print.

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