Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Now, social media has gone from a “nice to have” to a “must-have” for businesses, as it has become a core place for audiences to connect, get updates on current events and capture moments. Ability to crowdsource. Social media is an always-on focus group. But times have changed. Enables instant communication.

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Social Media Crowdsourcing Privacy Comparison 140

Rebekah Radice

JUNE 8, 2017

But if you do it right, a contest can be a great addition to your marketing strategy. A well-crafted contest isn’t an isolated event. It rolls over into your overall marketing strategy and helps meet specific objectives. They’re the ones who will read your content and take part in your events. And, much more!

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ProBlogger

JUNE 29, 2017

3 days ago Facebook ticked over the major milestone of 2 billion monthly users , over half of whom use Facebook groups. That’s right, more than 1 billion people are using Facebook groups. Here’s how you can move to where the conversation is and develop community for your blog in 5 different ways with Facebook groups.

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Groups Groups Facebook Blogger 54

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

He’s also founder of Exploring Social Media , a social media marketing program for beginners to teach them how to best understand and make sense of this online phenomenon for marketing. Samir Balwani is a marketing strategist and Director of Member Acquisition for StyleCaster. Samir Balwani. Adam Singer. Kristi Hines.

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Tools Tips Marketing Social Media 277

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Upcoming Events. 3) Cross functional participation is important - but consensus is only a “nice to have&# : Much of the long range benefits from doing this work brilliantly accrues from driving cross functional execution(Marketing/Support/Business Units). Emergence Marketing. Josh: Good point. March 2007. February 2007.

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Rebekah Radice

JUNE 8, 2017

But if you do it right, a contest can be a great addition to your marketing strategy. A well-crafted contest isn’t an isolated event. It rolls over into your overall marketing strategy and helps meet specific objectives. They’re the ones who will read your content and take part in your events. And, much more!

Crowdsourcing 60

Crowdsourcing Facebook How To iPad 60

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 9, 2012

As a marketer, don’t sound the alarm just because you see a few negative tweets or forum comments doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Twitter is a living focus group. Did the agency use a crowdsourced idea to devise the talking bag concept? There’s no such thing as universal agreement. Hell, 12.7%

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This is an example of social media crowdsourcing in action. When used correctly, social media crowdsourcing can be a powerful customer research tool. It can provide you with valuable insights on how to optimize various aspects of your business – from marketing and sales to customer service. What is crowdsourcing?

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Crowdsourcing Social Media How To Team 95

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This might seem like a tall order, but you can break this down into attainable tactics and goals that can become part of your social media marketing strategy. Read on to learn how you can bring the concept of brand loyalty into focus through your marketing. What is brand loyalty and why is it important? Build a community.

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Loyalty Brands How To Discount 88

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 24, 2010

But after a while, he found a group of people from a range of backgrounds – from fishermen, to a freedom fighter, to a tax collector – to take on this task. You could say that in addition to being a great story teller, he was the ultimate crowdsourcer. What an interesting bunch of people he brought together. Shall We Tweet?

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Crowdsourcing Creative Commons Postrank Class 216

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 9, 2012

As a marketer, don’t sound the alarm just because you see a few negative tweets or forum comments doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Twitter is a living focus group. Did the agency use a crowdsourced idea to devise the talking bag concept? There’s no such thing as universal agreement. Hell, 12.7%

Sentiment 87

Sentiment Sysomos Crowdsourcing Visible Technologies 87

The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Betabrand’s first exposure to hackathons came earlier this year, when a group of Las Vegas-based developers invited Lindland to host a hackathon. The company used its customer newsletter and social media to promote the event. ” The best Betabrand brand hack from the event? What’s the ROI of a Bigfoot Sighting?

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Brands Organization Hosting How To 192

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Web 2.0 Crowdsourcing RSS Case Study 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Buffer Social

MARCH 30, 2017

Facebook is still the leading platform for marketers. From our State of Social Media 2016 report , we found that 93 percent of marketers are actively using Facebook for their business. As social media marketers, we spend a lot of time on Facebook, managing our Pages , engaging our fans , finding good content , and creating ads.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. His chronicle of an online study group at Ryerson University is a perfect example of the ramifications of widespread interconnectivity that society will be wrestling with into the future.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn. Great thoughts, Laura!

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CSR Social Media Strategy Consultant 138

Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] I Marketing Exposed Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads.

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Social Media Case Study Strategy Study 126

Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

I crowdsourced the design using Crowd Spring, and selected Tzeyee and her design over dozens of other contenders. I’m looking forward to an all-new group of Twitter 20 interviews in the coming months, and hope you’ll be right there with me – tuning in, asking questions, and telling your friends.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

link] Social Email Guy By the way: nice crowdsourcing / co-creation / collaboration Chris Rogers I initially like #3 best, however, not a big fan of the screened back logo – i.e. if #3 was a bit less busy, it would be my favorite. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Disqus Social CRM Patterns Consultant 109

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, we’re pleased to honor 50 women (below) and 50 men (in an upcoming post on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog ) who are among the top social media connectors and engagers in the technology world, representing technology vendors as well as related venture capital (VC), advisory and analyst firms. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates.

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Twitter Bazaarvoice B2B Microsoft 257

Mindjumpers

APRIL 25, 2012

During the inspiring days in Austin, I also had the chance to meet the co-founder and CEO of Gushcloud, Vincent Ha, for a chat about their new social media marketing platform. Gushcloud is a platform where brands are helped to actively mobilize their target groups across the various social media channels with just a few easy clicks.

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Mobile Social Media Marketing Applications 259

Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 While an event of this magnitude and scope was sorely needed within the government, the planning of the event was decidedly anything but typical government. Very few sales-y marketing types (that I came across).

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Conference Hashtag 92

Later

JULY 4, 2019

Instagram’s latest sticker launch is designed to help you host and participate in real, human group chats (no bots allowed!) With the chat sticker, you’re able to initiate a private group chat (like a group DM) with your followers, but you are able to choose who joins the chat. . with your followers. .

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Instagram Brands Hosting Groups 78

Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Crowdsource white papers and presentations! The rest of the wiki would be open to engaging others in our work and designed to ‘market’ our capabilities to others.&# Government 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Writtent Blog

MAY 28, 2013

If you ever want to really annoy a marketer, tell them that content is low cost marketing. Content marketing can take hours and some serious elbow grease, which is why we’ve curated a list of 30 brilliant ways for you to make a maximum impact in the least amount of time possible. Answer Questions. Welcome Guest Posters.

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Cost Content Meme eBook 102

Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

But they are also about COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST and linking your content to groups that would be interested. Hashtags can be transitory (come and go) - such as one-off events. RoyalWedding #ScottishIndependence or any world or local event, an earthquake or celebrity death. Laurel Papworth | 16 items | 4 views. Follow List.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy May 19th, 2010 |Written By: russhenneberry | View Comments Tweet Guest post from Russ Henneberry , who writes, speaks and executes on content marketing plans for small businesses. Marketing was much easier when it was controllable. Then they can go back to business as usual.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Social CRM 139

Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2012

Read on for insights from Jay Baer & Eric Boss ‘s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Altimeter Group released the public report, The Social Media ROI Cookbook. We’re taking social and moving it beyond marketing, and getting lots of people involved. This episode features Richard Owen of Satmetrix.

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Airlines Sentiment Hotels ROI 115

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 5, 2016

As noted here previously, content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing. All of those marketers are creating an enormous amount of content, which is making it difficult to stand out and rise above the noise. Image credit: HubSpot. These writers face the same challenge.

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Content B2B Marketing Hubspot 60

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Somehow, individuals forget along the way that costs accrue when considering the venue, food, exhibit hall, and the staff required on hand to run the event smoothly. And featured it in a big presentation I did at an event here, too — so, trying to give back! At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed.

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Later

JANUARY 23, 2019

Once you know what your Instagram marketing goals are, you can better determine what types of content to post! Whether you want to collect feedback on your products, crowdsource ideas, or simply entertain your followers, poll stickers offer an entirely new way to engage with your Instagram audience!

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Although content marking is now a nearly universal practice—with 93% of B2B marketers using content marketing— half of all marketers still rank “producing enough content” as one of their top five challenges. Fortunately, content marketers don’t have to do it all themselves. 1) Storify. Pricing: free.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 6, 2008

Knowledge Management Community Home Blogs Groups Wiki. When I am away, on holidays, on conference events, off sick, whatever. Yes, indeed, what some folks would call crowdsourcing! Visual Basic. Web Design. Ask a Question / Find Members / Invite Peers. Previous Entry. Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? They Already Are!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? link] Wissensauslese RT @jaybaer: The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was inv… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was invented?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 23, 2010

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” ) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it and the consumers contributing to it. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.

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Crowdsourcing Social Media Strategy Construction 122

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. This should be a wake-up call for companies’ content on pursuing outbound marketing initiatives. Blogger for Huffington Post and @op_editorial , Marketer, Do-Gooder, Master Surfer!

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