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

Webbiquity SMM

Many organizations, having now realized that the “build it and they will come” model doesn’t work in social media and that it isn’t just another channel for promoting news releases and marketing brochures, are stepping back and retooling their social media strategies. Identify the key influencers in your market.

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The Brand View When Looking For a PR Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

I have a client – a gourmet dessert brand – that considers me its Director of Marketing. I had been given a test drive of Vocus which some of the applicants used. Or me, the professional marketer? A marketer or salesperson wants to see you have the strategy as well as the vision.

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How to Best Work With a PR Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

You get a bonus for using Vocus or a similar platform.). B: I was never contacted directly for anything related to marketing that might dovetail with PR. Since the [old] PR pro was new to our product segment, I gave a marketing/sales view of who the competition really is so they had a less narrow view of the market.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

With almost 200 social monitoring tools (and new entrants still coming to market), available at a range of price levels from free to if-you-have-to-ask-you-can’t-afford-it, how does an organization select the right social monitoring tool for its needs? Salesforce.com ), marketing automation tools and web analytics packages.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? In my local area, most PR firms are still firmly entrenched in the old paradigm of marketing. How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client?

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