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Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards

Kikolani

Today’s companies are quickly recognizing the power that social media tools such as forums and message boards can have for finding new customers and spreading the word about products and services. Photo Credit: Alexander Svensson on Flickr. Find out who runs the forum and send him a private message.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). If you’re using a professional (fee-based) social media monitoring tool, start there to identify these message boards, forums and other sites where people in your market are asking and answering questions.

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The Benefits of Offline Marketing

Kikolani

Photo Credit: Chris Heller on Flickr. Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards. Despite the growth of the Internet, it is important to realize that only 78.1% of users in the US have access to the Internet that leaves 21.9% of users whom you cannot reach online.

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US Women Are Following Brands & Stores

Proactive Report

If you market a product in these categories and you were wondering how all this online chatter affects store sales, take note of this finding – women are 77% more likely to look for products and 67% more likely to purchase them in a store after reading online reviews on a community forum or message board.

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Case Study at the Media Convergence Forum from Liz Cahill, VP of Marketing and Communications of Lee Jeans 13 years ago Lee recognized women were the top consumers of their jeans. And at the same time cause marketing was starting to take hold. Lee studied the causes that women really identified with and breast cancer was a clear winner.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). . • Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry).

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. You are missing out on tremendous opportunity for growth and performance of competitive analysis. What do you say, and how would you execute the program?

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