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5 Often Untapped Strategies of Early Adopter Marketing

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Marketing to early adopters can be slippery though, what they grab on to is almost entirely motivationally based. In other words, toss out your traditional “Three P’s” of marketing if you want to capture this crowd, you’re going to need to think through what makes them tick.

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Who we areā€¦not what we are in social media

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If you grew up in a traditional marketing or pr or design field, you probably had the implications and research of demographics beat into your head. You probably studied trends and learned all about how to market to and and communicate with particular generations. People prefer to talk to people, not on-message marketers.

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Social Media Strategic Plan Template

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The industry is still evolving definitive best practices, but that shouldn’t stop you from social media strategic planning. In fact, the good news is that much of social media measurement calls on some of the very same techniques that marketers have been using for a long time. But let’s start with the basics.

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3 new social media resolutions for 2012 and a couple from 2011 that still need attention.

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Beyond The Numbers: I definitely worked with people to think beyond follower counts, but I’m not completely satisfied with my own goal to build more scaleable social media programs. I think there is definitely more room for growth here. ? I’ll keep doing it. ? Tell the Story Better: Yes!

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Socially Speaking What do YOU expect from brands and companies using social media?

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However, we all create our own rules and definitions for what works for us in social media conversations. For sometime now, I’ve talked at you and with you about social media karma and best practices. Conversely, we all have our own expectations about what a brand/company does with their social media profiles.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

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Alice had lots of marketing avenues to explore, and one day, while Alice was pondering her next marketing move, she saw a White Rabbit. Be prepared to test the market, and don’t be afraid to fail. Building up your social media presence will almost definitely take time. That’s how PEOPLE view MARKETERS.

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Twitter Engagement and the Empty Promise

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Engagement definitions really need to go deeper, to ongoing relationships that can be better tracked with something like #Hashable , where conversations, not just RT’s, can be tracked over time. Or do I have it backwards, if your taking milk from someone who has to sniff it.what does that say about you?