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How Social Media Marketers Use Social Media In Real Life

Ignite Social Media

At Ignite Social Media, everyone is an expert in social media marketing. Someone working on the analytics team could be using social media in a far different way than someone working all day as a community manager. While YouTube is great, my community is with other gamers who have moved on to Twitch.tv First stop, me.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care? What makes your company interesting to them?

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The Five Reasons Why Most Facebook Brand Pages Aren’t True Communities

Convince & Convert

Jessica Malnik is a PR/marketing coordinator, social media specialist, videographer and an avid blogger. Visit her blog for social media, technology, public relations and marketing ramblings. What are the defining characteristics of a community? To get to this point, it becomes necessary to define what a community is.

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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

With social media marketing, you can undeniably grow your audience, gain visibility and exposure for your company/products/services, provide outstanding customer service, and – yes – generate business and increase sales. Community Growth & Sustainability. Community Growth & Sustainability. Referrals.

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Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. The 1-9-90 theory that says out of every hundred people who join a community or network – 1% actively contribute – 9% contribute from time to time – and 90% are lurkers.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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The 1-9-90 rule won't work for Internal Collaboration

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Productivity gains are now at everyone’s fingertips … So you begin recruiting your internal employees, getting them to join, asking them to get others to join, and placing reminders to join in the company newsletter – you whole organization is a buzz with the news. I think as Social Media marketers we have to get better at training.