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5 Tips for Turning Your Social Media Following Into a Paid Membership Community

Buffer Social

When I was building a social media audience for an e-commerce company I ran a few years ago, the go-to options for monetizing that audience never appealed to me.   That’s just one of the reasons I fell into the world of paid membership communities as a way to build a sustainable business around a social media audience.

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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7 Skill Sets for Nurturing Open Community

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what we do.

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Beyond integrations, Sprout’s focus on partnership adds value for our customers

Sprout Social

As Sprout expands our offering of business and technical integrations, we’re working closely with each company, ensuring our strategic relationships and holistic approach to partnerships truly set us apart. . Monitor for five star service with a host of review platforms. Setting a gold standard for partnerships.

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How To Use Customer Insight To Power Your Business

The Realtime Report

Smart companies will use the insights they get from customers in a number of ways; from fixing holes in marketing campaigns to informing product messaging and even developing and co-creating new products. Research is conducted using community platforms or on a one-to-one basis. How To Use Customer Insight To Power Your Business.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Not every company needs a blog. YouTube worked for BlendTec, but it might not work for your company. Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. And yet, there’s something to this.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone at home. Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs? Notice anything?

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