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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? What’s your social currency? Or someone said you should so your considering it.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. Your currency is your social media VALUE. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care?

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

For both strategic and benchmarking purposes, create a spreadsheet listing your top competitors and, for each, showing: • Social features on their website (e.g. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. Identify the key influencers in your market.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

But understanding how to begin your social media presence is the first phase, building community then analyzing and measure the community and Wikibrands includes those very important topics as well. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Subscribe via Email Meet Tara Coomans Recent Posts Klout – What’s it all About?

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

Akamai Marketing

The Moral of the Story: The Cheshire Cat is like a social media program without human characteristics, except a cheesy smile. Let your community see the whole Alice, even with your idiosyncrasies (how DO you keep your hair perfect on this grand adventure?). What’s your social currency? Who can trust that crazy cat?

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. 2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. , also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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55 (of the) Best Social Media Tips, Tactics and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Social Media Tips, Tactics and Techniques.