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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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5 Reasons I’m Thankful for Social Media

Webbiquity SMM

Social media is fantastic for research and learning. Sure, surveys and focus groups still have their place, but you can learn a lot from what they’re saying in social media circles. Blowhards (usually) tend to get called out and ignored. Want to know what your customers and prospects are thinking? Leave a comment to share.

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Monitoring Your Company’s Brand Online with MutualMind

Bill Hartzer

Some people think they can just send out a couple of surveys , or do a few focus groups , and gather all the information they need about the public’s opinion about their products. Related posts: Study Proves Facebook and Digg Visitors More Loyal; Twitter in Last Place Are you a loyal visitor? Share this on del.icio.us.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study

The Marketing Blog

Iffort Consulting , a NCR based social media consulting firm has researched the Twitter usage by companies in India. Though looking for some more deeper analysis on the sales front or on overall impact on business (may be more qualitative, focus groups / individual interviews from the CEOs or MDs of the most activities companies on twitter).

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Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out !

The Marketing Blog

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. & & every month, subscribers are kept abreast with the latest offers through monthly catalogue.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As I was leaving that brand we looked at sizing the amount of conversation (hard activity), but the best research we had indicated over 2 Billion conversations about product, service and brand. Community Group Therapy is proudly powered by Silver Lexus and WordPress. The advice isn’t wrong - but too simplistic. Go join that!