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Social Media Success Starts with Listening

Webbiquity SMM

Use social media monitoring tools to find the people who are talking about your company, your competitors, and key industry terms. Social Mention , Alterian’s SM2 Freemium and Google blog search are helpful free tools, and a growing number of commercial suites are available. Share your own industry-related content.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

The prospect or buyer likely had several other exposure points to your brand prior to that click (visiting your booth at a trade show, hearing someone from your company speak, seeing an ad, reading about your firm on a blog or an industry trade press article or analyst report, etc.). Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us. Tweet This!

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

Convince & Convert

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? What’s the client/competitor/industry name(s)? To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). How can your brand participate in this space most effectively?

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Pam Moore outlines a dozen ways companies can fail at social media marketing, from not understanding the social media “ecosystem&# for their industry or hiring the wrong consultant/agency for help to assuming social media will fix a broken business (it’s won’t–it will expose it) and having unrealistic expectations in general.

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Essential tools for influencer marketing

Socialmedia.biz

Step one: make sure you have an awesome client with a special, unique, delicious, and superior product, an amazing origin story , industry-leading values , and is willing to be super-generous with not only the A-list but with the long tail, too. SDL SM2 — I have always loved SM2 by SDL. OK, now on to tools. BaseCamp 2.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Now a Business Information Analyst at The Mint Partnership, Valerie has an extensive background in the architecture and engineering industry. Her background includes stints in management consulting and the energy industry. LeadLife is designed to increase qualified leads while shortening sales cycles and decreasing the cost of sales.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

SocMed Sean

If your blog gets big, you’ll want to monetize it (even if it’s just to support the costs/time) and you’ll have a harder time with that on Blogger and WordPress.com 44) Blogging takes time and commitment. Blogs 43) If you’re serious about blogging, get a self-hosted WordPress blog. 45) Your content had better be good.