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This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

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To translate this back into social media jargon, you end up with an audience of lurkers (assuming they stay that long) when you are attempting to get those consumers engaged. Curating community content to keep it safe will go a long ways for members to want to contribute and connect with greater frequency. Jake McKee 90-9-1.com.

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The secret sauce of social is selfishness-and that’s not a bad thing

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Excuse me while I say the following: If it wasn’t for social media, you wouldn’t be anywhere near where you are right now in your career. To put it more succinctly, social media has made a lot of you. You see, for a lot of us, and notice I said us , social media added that missing layer.

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Moving without the ball: On Basketball and Digital marketing

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In digital marketing, social media marketing and any type of integrated marketing communications plan, we can create a strategy, design the tactics to use for that strategy and then we can implement. A lot of players do not do it and yet they would be better served and more successful if they did do it. Then we wait.

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