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4 Ecommerce trends you need to know for 2022

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Social commerce. Social commerce is when you buy and sell products or services directly from a social media platform. With the maturing of the influencer industry, the natural next step is for platforms to help influencers and companies sell to consumers. million consumers. Livestream shopping.

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Marketing Is Dead

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Does it mean that newer components like community management, engaging influencers, building social capital with customers, and engaging with consumers in more collaborative ways (the four core pillars that Lee argues have put the death knell on traditional marketing) hasn't changed the game? Not all brands are social.

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

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There’s a lot of conversation these days about influence or outreach and Klout , with Klout’s new algorithm change recently. Brian: This has been another area of study actually going back to the 90s before there were influence scores. I used to call it the IF, the influence factor, and its importance in business engagement.

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Marketing Marvels – How to Find Influencers with Little Bird

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This week’s show is on Little Bird , the influencer identification and connections platform. Which people and which tweets and which influencers and which topics are of importance to your business? Little Bird helps you tap into the people, companies, and content on Twitter that are influencing the direction of your business.

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Why You're the Key to Social Media Success

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New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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Klout and the Reality of Return on Influence

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Jay: Which brings us to today’s book, Return On Influence. There was a reason why nobody in social media has written a book about the nature of influence. And then Jay, I started hearing about all these companies that were actually using it. What Defines Influence? Schaefer , define online influence?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department. Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Compared to before, this company is holding the reigns – albeit loosely and in new ways.