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The 4-1-1 on the (Not So) New Marketing Trend: Influencer Marketing

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If you are a communications pro, I don’t need to tell you that influencer marketing is hot and could soon outpace traditional paid media spend. Everyone is jumping on the influencer marketing bandwagon because it’s all the rage, just like every other fly-by-night new trend. So, what is influencer marketing?

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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In the realm of marketing, learning is the name of the game no matter what your goal is. Today’s lesson is user-generated content 101 and five reasons why the future belongs to the users. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Their interaction is content of the highest order. Here they are: 1.

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Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes

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For marketers, memes may have come to represent something very different: an “in” with the “Internet culture” crowd. What we’re talking about here is memejacking: another of those made-up-sounding words that has come to have a welcome place in the marketer’s toolkit. Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes.

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Influencer Engagement: Finding a Fit

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Forbes has found that today’s marketing strategies place a strong emphasis on influencers. According to influencer marketing platform Musefind, 92 percent of consumers trust an influencer more than an advertisement or even a celebrity endorser. Her content had more than 39,000 views and more than two million engagements.

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Microvideo Will Dominate 2014

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As communications pros have to grab the attention of their audiences in shorter and shorter windows of time, the importance of quality content will only continue to grow. Microvideo is the perfect way to do that, and creating compelling content using Vine or Instagram can spread quickly. Simple, direct, and full of useful information.

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Getting Started With Vlogging

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That goal should dictate your content. Whatever “it” is, that becomes your content. Once you publish, review it and then head to your YouTube channel (or Vimeo…or both) to load that puppy. Four Ways to Use YouTube to Your Advantage. This is a fairly new section for YouTube. What is the goal with the video post?

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Why WE’s “President of International” is Completely Wrong About PR

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In a few hours from now, I’ll be heading to AdWeek DC to moderate a panel on content marketing. Then on Friday, I head to Boston to speak at PRSA’s Association/Nonprofit Section Half-Day Conference on email marketing. “Stick to the sensibilities of third party validation over YouTube influencers.”

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