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Gartner: fake social media reviews

Sherrilynne Starkie

Checking online reviews has become a normal part of consumer purchasing decisions, and so, companies are paying for or faking these reviews to gain favour and influence preference. By 2014, we could see up to 15 per cent of all online reviews being ‘faked’, according to Gartner, the research company. Down a new path?

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6 social media marketers on the future of social messaging

Sprout Social

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. Today, social media marketers aren’t solely focused on strategizing content for posts and social feeds. It just builds so much trust and casual familiarity.

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Monitor Your Brand Online-Part 1

Harp Interactive

One of the main objectives for all social media marketing initiatives for a brand is to “ navigate the narrative&#. Social media monitoring is the somewhat new but indispensable tool that all serious marketers should use in order to keep track of what people are saying about their brand, their products and their competitors.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

While this isn’t anything substantially groundbreaking, I propose this question: why is it that many marketers are not embracing the technology earlier? The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. December 20, 2007 at 12:28 pm toodoo » ?????

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The Five-Year Marketing Plan: Looking Beyond Facebook

Idaconcpts

MySpace ruled the social media roost, fending off a feisty underdog called Facebook that threatened to steal a share of its influence. Within half a decade, most social networkers have fully abandoned MySpace. Each will need to find a way to make money to survive, or sell out to another company who will assume the problem for them.

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The Five-Year Marketing Plan: Looking Beyond Facebook

Idaconcpts

MySpace ruled the social media roost, fending off a feisty underdog called Facebook that threatened to steal a share of its influence. Within half a decade, most social networkers have fully abandoned MySpace. Each will need to find a way to make money to survive, or sell out to another company who will assume the problem for them.

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Reputation Management with Dissatisfied Customers and Word of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are three cases that were blown way out of proportion but could have been handled a lot better if the companies thought of the consequences before acting. There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets.