Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

It comes down to fundamentals and I suppose the following Four pieces of the Social Search Engine Optimization puzzle can help companies of any size get started in a more meaningful way on their journey towards becoming productive on the social web.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

35% (173) of the Fortune 500 have active Twitter accounts (a post within the past thirty days); and nearly 50% of the top 100 companies (47) have a Twitter account. The number one ranked company, Exxon Mobil, does not have a Twitter account. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 3, 2010

Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. This situation serves as a fantastic call to action for companies who have yet to develop a social media disaster plan. What would you do in Ball Memorial Hospitals situation? Given the topic, I'm left to wonder if any response would have doused the fire?

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 24, 2010

No longer are individuals passively listening and viewing advertisements; now they’re “twittering&# and posting their opinions on Facebook along with other social media sites. For little companies, social media’s ever-emerging presence is really a dramatic game-changer that can have a large impact on their bottom line.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Brand recognition: You need to go where your customers are, and they are increasingly spending a great deal of time on social networking sites. Using social media enables your company to reach a huge number of potential customers. 12 Reasons Y&#959&#965r Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program … [.]

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Firebelly

AUGUST 18, 2010

Youll learn how to identify your content assets, use a push and pull approach, the social platforms that can work for you, a review of the monitoring tools, and see case studies of companies doing it right. We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash, or into YouTube videos? Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time?

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Firebelly

JULY 22, 2010

Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. Posted by: Tonytellez | July 23, 2010 at 10:15 AM This reminds me of my Firestone story posted on Get Social PR. In my instance the company's policy, which is special to Firestone and not to the industry as a whole, stood in the way.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read | Main | Teens & Young Adults Prefer Facebook Over Blogs » February 02, 2010 Social Media & The Super Bowl Companies love to entertain us with their 30 second spots during the Super Bowl.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 7, 2010

Many companies now include Facebook and/or Twitter URLs in their ads, but Temper-Pedics latest Ask Me commercial is the first one that I have seen that tells people to ask their friends on Facebook and Twitter about their product before making a decision to buy. Google knows this and mattress manufacturer Tempur-Pedic, does as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

After all, spending time, money, and other precious resources on social media marketing before you have an understanding of what it can do for you is kind of like putting the cart before the horse (not advisable). It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. It introduces your brand Is your company new?

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

This saves time, effort and money in the long run, but it’s a step too many companies skip over. Strategy: it isn’t just the tools you’ll be using, but also establishing goals for what you’d like to achieve in social media, and allocating time and resources to do the job. Social Events (e.g.,

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Firebelly

MAY 27, 2010

At least that’s what one of Comcast’s many Twitter accounts will tell you if you happen to mention their name in one of your tweets.Businesses everywhere are jumping on to the ever-expanding social networking bandwagon, and with very good reason.  When companies actually put the effort in to interacting with their audience, definitely.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 27, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Youtube Tuesday: Lost Generation | Main | 5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read » January 27, 2010 Dentyne "Friend Request" Commercial: 60 Connections In Every Bottle Many companies now include a Facebook or Twitter URL in their television commercials.

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Firebelly

MARCH 11, 2010

An out of theclassroom experience to learn about their thoughts and goals that varied fromrunning their own record labels, music studios, and production companies tobeing a rapper, a performer, or a video game designer. And, who knows, maybesome of these talented new media students will be my successors or futurecollaborators at Firebelly.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Firebelly Work: J.C. Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed By Ben Parr A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed. But now what?

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Firebelly

JUNE 3, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 3 Easy Ways To Make Your Facebook Page More Welcoming | Main | Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter » June 03, 2010 Jakes Take: Fresh Logos, Fresher Coffee Every brand could use a re-design every once in a while.Even Google updated their logo last month, if you haven’t noticed.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Does social media marketing fit your company's approach to business? So social media marketing may be right for your company. Here's the highlights. Do you have a responsive way about you? Are you committed to deep and sustained marketing efforts? Is your leadership behind you? Or maybe not.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 27, 2009

It can certainly be funny in the theater during a play or a film (in terms of actors not audience). But lets face it, as much as we'd all like to think we're actors - we're not.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 15, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 4 Ways To Celebrate MLK Day With Social Media | Main | Youtube Tuesday: ESCP Europe Human Experience » January 15, 2010 Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/11-1/15 Theres a lot going on in the social media space and so much can get lost or overlooked in your RSS feed reader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Despite regulations regarding disclosure of marketer-driven efforts, consumers may feel that whatever it is these people are receiving from companies positively influences their endorsements. The deal marks the Californian internet giants latest move to improve its standing in the social web, after a series of troubled attempts.

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Its important to be careful with whom you allow admin privileges on your companys Facebook page. One-Third of Americans Criticize or Compliment Brands Online Erik Sass If anyone ever doubted that marketers must come to grips with social media, that doubt should be removed by the findings of the latest Harris Poll, released earlier this week.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And Youtube dominates the pack (as if that’s a surprise to anyone…).Comscore Many of the videos, especiallyon Youtube , aren’t marketing a product or brand;they’re just for fun. Many of the videos, especiallyon Youtube , aren’t marketing a product or brand;they’re just for fun. million unique streamers and1.1

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Social Media Network Marketing

JULY 17, 2009

From written reviews to rich media, users share information of all forms on social sharing sites. Think YouTube, Vimeo, and Flickr. These are three popular examples of social sharing sites. Social networking sites. If you've ever heard of a little site called Facebook, you are familiar with a social networking site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. This may be nothing more than a refresher course in the Captain Obvious department but even the savviest of companies is still missing the boat. A lot of big companies I try to engage with don’t want to talk back.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Reply Lauren Kates May 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm OH MY GOD I have come across this EXACT situation with my company and was looking for an article just like this. One of the things I look for nowadays when I visit sites is how well they’re integrating their social network presences. It’s much appreciated. Answers Yahoo!

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

8) Take some time to learn the lingo of social media. It’s “YouTube” not “The YouTube” It’s Twitter not “The Tweeterboard” You don’t “Twit” things on Twitter, you “Tweet” them. 9) Social media is about quality NOT quantity. A measurement plan.

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yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

YouTube is more popular than cable television: YouTube reaches more adults than any cable network. In the United States, the number of people who watch television has fallen behind the number of people who watch YouTube on a regular basis. Read my blog on “ Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 12, 2010

In all but the smallest companies, there are often multiple individuals tweeting, networking and even contributing to the company blog. What: what type of information will you use to attract a social media following? Update your company’s Facebook page? What is your company aiming to accomplish through social media?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Because virtually 100% of companies are now involved in social media—whether they acknowledge it or not. Even without any formal plan to use social media, every organization with more than a handful of employees (and many under that benchmark) is present in social media because people are talking about them.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 23, 2011

Social media monitoring tools are increasing essential for companies of all sizes as the explosion of social media content renders manual monitoring efforts hopeless. And in social media, the whole world can see how fast (or not) your response time is. But how do you choose one? Range of coverage. Workflow capabilities.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 27, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places | Main | Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits » August 27, 2010 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles Facebook Places has been out just a little over a week now.

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Facebook Foursquare Paid Search Discount 182

Firebelly

AUGUST 13, 2010

Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. We are spending countless employee hours tweeting, retweeting, responding to tweets, figuring out whom to follow, secretly following celebs and athletes, and designing custom Twitter backgrounds.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

But fundamentally, 1) there are now far more online venues than just your website or blog where you and/or your company be found (social media pages and profiles, articles, videos, etc.), Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior by The Proactive Report. Social Media and Search Optimization Integration by SEO Wizardry.

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Kikolani

APRIL 7, 2010

There are many free ways to monitor what people are saying about your company through social media, including the following: Google Alerts. Social Mention. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Lesson # 3 : Learn To Use YouTube To Convey a Message. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. Here they learn about social media tools like RSS, Delicious, podcasting, videocasting, blogs, wikis, and yes, even Twitter. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, one blog post cant possibly cover all that is social media.

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