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Do You Have a Stake In The Personal Data Market?

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As compensation for giving the company permission to get to know you better, it might offer you a valuable discount on bookings or even pay you for your time. That means you’re buying, and the company is selling. That means you’re buying, and the company is selling.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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Focus on the benefits of working with/buying from you. Here are three examples: Facebook is best for B2C companies that share short, consumable content (see below) and special offers or discounts for first-time buyers. Instead of “We are an award-winning catering company” say, “Your guests will be wowed.”. Write like you talk.

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Monday Roundup: Understanding The 7C Social PR Framework™

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C4 (Conversation) Case Study: Best Buy Uses Twitter to Enhance Customer Service.

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12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

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So, with Champion buy-in, we did four more tweetathons last year; one each, September through December. Twitter is so free-flowing, it’s easy to underestimate – or completely discount – the amount of planning that goes into pulling off a successful event such as a tweetathon. Plan it like it’s your wedding.

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Ditching the Daily Deal

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I’ve already noticed a handful of local businesses adopting creative new discount marketing schemes: 1. Guess where I buy my groceries now? Offer your customers a big discount in exchange for signing up for a weekly or monthly email newsletter. The text coupon. Consumer-paid online coupons. E-newsletters.

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Need Gifts for PR Pros? Here’s 12 of ‘Em

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I waxed lyrical about Lee’s book last year, and it is really one of the best business books you can buy, either for yourself or as a gift (or both!). So here are the 12 days of Waxing UnLyrical, which would make great gifts for PR pros (and others too!): Books that will round you out: 1. Optimize , by Lee Odden.