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This Week in Social Media – 6/5/2013

Social Media Marketing

While Facebook and Twitter receive the bulk of attention, other networks such as Pinterest, Google+ and Foursquare also rank well. News Corporation (which owns MySpace) is expanding the Wall Street Journal site into a platform for users to network in addition to read news. LinkedIn may have some competition.

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Website and Conversion Optimization in Hard Times

Freelance Social Media

5% and you can optimize your checkout process to increase your conversion rate to 1%, you have effectively doubled your revenue, signups or whatever your metric may be. If you are currently converting at.5% That sounds pretty cost effective to me. About the author Jesse Sevier wrote 18 articles on this blog.

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Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

Convince & Convert

Each of these strategies requires different tactics, resources and success metrics. Are you using Facebook just because of its size, or do you have a concrete rationale for participation? There are five main approaches to using Facebook for businesses. It will change the way you think about Facebook for business.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months. The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. These services are in many ways would Twitter was originally, with another layer of loyalty and rewards built in.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. Social Media Metrics: What We Need to Track Sales (Samir Balwani): Samir Balwani writes a great post on some of the ways you get ROI from social media.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Avoids Getting Mired in Tactics, Metrics or Technology: The successful firms above recognize that social media should be used as a tool for achieving business goals.