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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

There was no question really when Microsoft offered. I put in four amazing years with Microsoft Advertising and made life long friends in the process. I never imagined Microsoft would lay anyone off, but the economy had other plans. Hell, Microsoft throws away millions of dollars on everything you could imagine.

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When Teams Just Click

Jason Yormark

Tweet A little over 5 years ago I moved to Seattle to work for Microsoft. I was one of the first hires to what is now called Microsoft Advertising. If you were one of the lucky few who were part of this amazing team leave a comment and say hi! Microsoft – CAST History from Jason Yormark on Vimeo. Tweet This!

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The 2024 Guide to Social Media Strategy for Executives

Hootsuite

Track mentions, identify opportunities, and encourage brand loyalty by responding to comments and getting involved in conversations. Reddit could be a great place for you to host AMAs: “Ask Me Anything” threads popular on the platform. One of the fastest ways to grow your follower count is by commenting on other people’s posts.

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Conversational analytics: How to use social listening for brand insights

Sprout Social

Social listening tools powered by conversational analytics discover relevant information from thousands of customer comments and conversations within seconds. With Sprout, you can also merge your review management system with CRMs like Zendesk, HubSpot, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365 to get a holistic view of customer feedback.

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The New Gig: VP of Marketing & Social Media @ Strategies 360

Jason Yormark

what was a pretty good situation at Microsoft. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Reddit. Tweet It would take a pretty sweet opportunity for me to leave. Despite the. fact that I was unhappy with my role, with. href="[link]. size-full wp-image-358" title="Strategies360Logo". src="[link]. here , href="[link].

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Is User Generated Content building a Wall between your Brand and your Customer?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If you have (lets take Microsoft for example) customers who are avid users of the brand and tend to be socially active blogging, tweeting, posting on Facebook, or posting on forums about their good and bad experiences with the Microsoft brand – then how as a brand marketer am I supposed to get my message through all that mess?

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9 Types of Social Media and How Each Can Benefit Your Business

Hootsuite

Examples: Reddit, Quora. One thing to note: On Reddit, it’s highly frowned upon to insert any self-promotion into answers. While Microsoft didn’t create the /r/XboxOne subreddit, once they saw how popular it was, they started engaging with Redditors by hosting AMA sessions with game developers. Source: Reddit.

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