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Paid, owned and earned media: What they are and where social fits into the mix

Sprout Social

Whether you’re targeting a search ad around brand keywords or running a print ad in a popular trade publication, paid media gives brands more control over how they reach new audiences. Paid media examples. Paid search. Paid social. Metrics for tracking paid media performance. Cost per click.

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Tablets and Smartphones Account for One-Fourth of All Paid Clicks

Bill Hartzer

The Search Agency has released its quarterly State of Paid Search Report, which, among other findings, reports that smartphones and tablets drove 23 percent of total clicks in the fourth quarter of 2012, an 89 percent increase year over year. However, YoY click volume declined 6 percent.

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B2B Marketing Stats from HubSpot’s Marketing Data Box

Webbiquity SMM

Trade mags are struggling to maintain their value as they compete with industry analysts putting more content online, independent bloggers, and of course B2B marketers themselves publishing more of their own original content. Slide 21: Online costs per lead are lower. Content aggregation ?).

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5 Reasons CMOs Can No Longer Own Social Media

Hootsuite

Then we went one step further: we evaluated each respondent using our Social Maturity Assessment , a tool that studies how organizations use social media and benchmarks how they compare to others in their industry. HR teams tell us using social increases candidate diversity, improves new-hire retention, and reduces recruiting costs.

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8 Questions to Answer Before You Pay to Advertise Your Business

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

How to do that varies by industry, but this probably means you should have a developed email marketing program, an active Facebook page, and a phone number with great customer support people answering it. For others, like paid search, manual optimizations require the consistent collection of data.

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How to Select an Interactive Marketing Agency

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A couple of side notes: First, a quick definition of terms : An interactive agency is one that provides a full suite of digital services that typically includes SEO, paid search advertising, email marketing, social media, mobile marketing, and branding support. Follows industry best practices. Highest Priority Criteria.

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Create your social media campaign plan for 2019 (with editable worksheets)

Sprout Social

Regardless of your industry or audience, this approach to planning can work for you. Throughout this guide, we’ll walk you through the social marketing planning process and how to adapt your business’ strategies to industry standards. Objectives might vary depending on your industry or brand, though. Paid social.

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