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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. I plan on giving a copy to my clients.

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What's your social currency?

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Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. 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. What makes your company interesting to them?

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The Cost of a Tribe

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So have mobile phone companies, which is why your obsessed with checking your email on your phone. Developing advocacy programs is something that every agency and consultant should be offering today, because it really takes full advantage of the social and digital media. We act almost instinctually.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

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I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed.

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6 Things To Empower Your Social Media Campaign

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The people in YOUR company understand the needs and views of your customers better than anyone else, why wouldn’t you want them to be involved. Be ready to share some of the nitty gritty of your company’s inner workings with a social media professional and allow them to help you through the process.

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Does it matter who follows you on Twitter or Facebook?

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This school of thinking is my typical default for personal accounts, soloprenuers and consultants. Yes, if you are trying to create a specific audience: Particularly if you are a brand or a company, you’ll want to keep an eye on who your follower are. you make them giggle now and then? So, does it matter who follows you?

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The Wells Fargo Debacle.how to get around it

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The power of events, ESPECIALLY B2b events, is undeniable and people are still attracted to them, computers and phones not withstanding, most of us prefer the company of human beings. This will not kill the event or incentive industry. And yes, once in awhile, we even like to get together with them to “talk shop”.

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