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Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards

Kikolani

Today’s companies are quickly recognizing the power that social media tools such as forums and message boards can have for finding new customers and spreading the word about products and services. Photo Credit: Alexander Svensson on Flickr. This is a guest post by Olga Ionel. Consider Banner Advertising.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). Your prospective buyers are likely having conversations in places well beyond the big five social networking sites. . • Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. followers/fans/circles, how complete is their profile, level of activity).

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. “I’d rather have that conversation in my living room than in somebody else’s.”

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

it's no longer about pushing information out – it's about consumers generating conversations. They also used The Office TV show to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) and got a 60% conversion rate because of that program off of YouTube.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

That is why social media marketing is not a quick process—it takes time to nurture relationships into conversations and create those solid, trusted connections…these real conversations lead to real relationships,and those trusted relationships lead to referrals and sales. Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.).

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr). However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). If you have a photo gallery, it should be everywhere.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. And those who see that the big loser is the message board’s credibility, and by extention, other board’s credibility, also.

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