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Corporate America steps up to deal with #COVID-19

Janet Fouts

Microsoft announced Asked workers to stay home until March 25 in Seattle and San Francisco, and agreed to pay hourly service providers their regular pay even if they are not needed to work. Ford handled it in a similar fashion, even after the union in Louisville called for a shutdown.

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How Brands Are Using Twitch

Likeable

so these brands would be delinquent in their duties as fashion industry leaders in leaving Twitch out of their marketing mix. Each brand has used the platform to launch a limited run product, conducting live unboxing streams to reveal the product and hosting influencer-led giveaways of the limited run items.

Brands 79
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B2B vs. B2C Influencer Marketing: Platforms, Practices, and Packaging

Webbiquity SMM

What’s more, as host of the long-running All Things Video podcast , he’s an influencer himself. And the value of an email marketing campaign has come back into fashion. We could talk for hours about some of my concerns, post-Microsoft acquisition, about things they’ve done that have watered down the platform.

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The Metaverse: What it is and why it matters for brands

Sprout Social

Users will buy real estate , sell and own goods , host parties, educate scholars and even get married. The interoperable metaverse is an extension of the vision Meta, Microsoft and others are pursuing to make a reality. Gucci’s clothing isn’t the only part of the brand that’s fashion-forward. Brand activations in the metaverse.

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Print publishing continues to bemuse me…

The Way of the Web

Why I’m so bemused… Firstly, if you want to test something cheaply, £50 will do it and about 30 minutes will do it – just go and buy a domain and some hosting from somewhere like www.GoDaddy.com (aff link), and put some content up. You’ll have insights by the end of the first week.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

I have literally copied the G&S description in Microsoft Word to check the word count, and it is 32 pages long and 16,728 words total. To give you an idea of what is typical for a trademark application, I would say that they “typical” description of goods and services is usually a few sentences, or a paragraph at best.

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Ask Buffer: How Many Social Media Platforms Should a Small Business Be Active On?

Buffer Social

Facebook supports a host of content formats, so you’ll have everything from video to photo- to text-based posts to play with. What performs well on LinkedIn B2B (business-to-business) brands and career-related industries are finding success on the Microsoft-owned channel.