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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Examples: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. How brands can use social networking sites: Post, share and respond to audience content.

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How PR and Social Media Can Work Together

Webbiquity SMM

But integrated properly, social media can help amplify PR efforts, and effective PR can help generate social media coverage. In this example, a press release is distributed online, posted to the company’s Facebook and Twitter updates, and used to create a social media release (using a tool such as PitchEngine ).

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How Social Bookmarking Works [Plus 7 Tools To Help You Do It]

Hootsuite

That’s where social bookmarking comes in. Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media monitoring to boost sales and conversions today. What is social bookmarking? Social bookmarking is a way for users to search, manage, organize, and share web pages. How does social bookmarking work?

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Use the great hashtag feature to keep up with and be part of the latest trends and news worthy events. This is only for a business that hav a brick and motar location – a restaurant, hair salon, spa – are good examples. Social Bookmarking, Local Search and Review Sites. Foursquare.

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Seasonal Traffic and How to Capture It for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Read to the bottom of this post for an example of how I used the same content three times in 18 months to generate 50,000 page views on one post. One of the skills that I encourage bloggers to develop is to think ahead about what events might be coming up that will impact the niche that you’re writing about.

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How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Blog

ProBlogger

Social Bookmarking – where the primary activity is the finding and sharing of web content through different systems of ‘voting’ on sites. Examples of this type of site are Reddit, Digg and Mix (formerly StumbleUpon).

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Granted, its a general tool, if for example, your audience are a specific subset, say Mom’s, you might know some other things about your audience and how they like to interact, but this is still a great place to start.While this information is not new, its still relevant, so go ahead and check it out. Think about it.

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