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6 Things To Empower Your Social Media Campaign

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Creative Commons Photo by [link]. If you utilize non-digital forms of marketing, then let your social media pro in on the details. Let them understand your marketing cycle so they can support your over all goal, not just the goal of social media. Open up to new ideas.

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What’s the ROI of Social Media Silence?

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Image courtesy of Copyright Brian Robert Marshall and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. .” Think about it. Let me know what you think! PS: Interested in listening? Check out this wiki.

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6 reasons why social media shouldn’t be a last ditch effort

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photo by Mr. Thomas (creative commons). Social media at its best and most successful is integrated into an overall marketing strategy. No matter how creative your social media plan, if you don’t have a good product, your spending your money in the wrong place. Its complicated, isn’t it? Not so much.

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Does it matter who follows you on Twitter or Facebook?

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Photo by Ken Lund, Creative Commons. Interesting question, isn’t it? Generally speaking, I’d say the answer is yes, but the REASONS you should care might surprise you. Here’s some different ways of looking at it: The care and feeding of followers and fans.

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The difference between an audience and a community in new media

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Creative Commons Photo by Daehyun Park. In the marketing world, we toss around some language that can be confusing. You can purchase an audience fairly quickly and start marketing to the audience immediately. Two of those words are “audience&# and “community.&# Guess what? They aren’t one in the same.

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Twitter Engagement and the Empty Promise

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Photo: Creative Commons Wallyg. Yes, that makes life slightly more complicated, but in the meantime, I think I’m going to have to rethink my engagement to engagement.and stinky milk. What do you guys think? Am I off base? Should I quite my whining? What does satisfactory engagement look like to you?

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Why Transparency Matters

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Photo credit: Creative Commons Yum9Me. It all goes back to “Everything I learned in social media I learned in Kindergarten” Do a gut check: If you can’t look your customers in the eye when you’re saying something, should you really be saying it? Just say’n.