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MAY 3, 2011

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Though fairly new to Twitter, Amber is active and highly engaging, and her following is likely to grow quickly. Allison Mooney. allimooney. Amber Buhl.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Facebook is of course on top, followed by YouTube, Instagram (owned by Facebook), and Twitter. Twitter for breaking news, LinkedIn for professional networking) but below the surface, who’s really using each platform, for what purposes? Google and Facebook captured 85% of the growth in internet advertising last year.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Nominations and voting are now open for the B2B Twitterer of the Year (B2BTOTY) awards. Here’s your chance to recognize your favorite B2B organization or individual for their exceptional Twitter skills. B2B Twitter App. Post on Google Buzz. B2B “Boss Tweet&# Personality. • Share this on FriendFeed. Tweet This!

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MAY 9, 2023

Image credit: Twitter Here’s how Sprout Social is doing it. Tools to Help Measure: Use social media analytics tools such as Facebook Audience Insights, Twitter Analytics, Instagram Insights, or Hootsuite Analytics to gain valuable insights into your audience’s demographics, interests, and online behavior.

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MAY 15, 2012

A year ago, Cheryl Burgess and I published the first #Nifty 50 award winners, starting with the #Nifty50 Women of Twitter on this blog in May 2011 and followed by the #Nifty50 Men of Twitter published on Cheryl’s Blue Focus Marketing blog in June. Check out Google’s Project Glass Video. to 50 disadvantaged kids in all 50 states.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! Post on Google Buzz. Serious disconnect there.). Anyway, on to the list! Share this on Bebo.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

B2B buyers are most likely to share useful vendor content via email (79%), followed by LinkedIn (53%), Twitter (39%) and Facebook (18%). Women make up the larger share of users on Facebook (58% to 42%) and are a slightly larger share on Twitter (52% to 48%) while men are the predominate users of LinkedIn (63% to 37%) and Google+ (71% to 29%).

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JUNE 7, 2018

The competition to improve organic rankings and appear on the first page of Google is tough. Connect with Twitter. Once you connect your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, you can choose to post your LinkedIn updates automatically on Twitter, thus increasing your post reach and possibilities of generating more leads.

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MARCH 13, 2019

He actually said to me, “No one searches at Google for a recruiting firm.” I’ve also started using Twitter to communicate with existing and prospective clients and have used my blog to drive traffic to my Twitter page and build up my Twitter fanbase. Yes, I’m tragically connected .

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

marketers used the site in 2015, and that figure is expected to approach 70% by 2017) while Google+ is struggling (though it has 300 million active monthly users worldwide, less than 6 million made any public posts in 2015). 93% of small business owners/marketers use Facebook, ahead of Twitter at 79%. 7 Twitter Stats and Facts.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Six Twitter Metrics. Total number of relevant followers (exclude the inevitable spammers and oddballs who seem to be attracted to any active Twitter account). Two Google+ Metrics. Note: Google has indicated that it plans to introduce more advanced analytics for Google+ soon. Number of email subscribers. •

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Studies show that users on platforms like Twitter and Pinterest maximize their engagement when brands post as many as 15 tweets or 11 pins per day. Besides mainstream sites like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter, there are also niche social media platforms that target specific industries. Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). Twitter emerged at the SXSW conference in March 2007. Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 11, 2011

As Vanessa Fox puts it in the subtitle of her book Marketing in the Age of Google , “Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy.” Search is no longer just Google and Bing; the second- and third-largest “search engines” by volume of searches are YouTube and Facebook. .

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A common mistake in social media is that companies will dive right in, setting up a Twitter account or Facebook page and blasting out tweets and status updates about their latest company news and new product announcements—and then wonder why their Twitter following isn’t growing and there’s no interaction on their Facebook page.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

Measuring the ROI of social media is challenging for several reasons, the most significant of which is the problem of “last click attribution;&# just because a sale or lead “came from&# Twitter or Facebook as the last click doesn’t necessarily mean that site deserves all the credit. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

PR pros now use tools like Twitter, PitchEngine , PRWeb and Vocus in place of fax machines, media packets, wire services and Bacon’s , but the fundamental skills of storytelling and relationship-building remain crucial. How can you make a press release more friendly to blogs, Twitter and search engines? by Blogging PRWeb.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Don’t want to follow Twitterers who aren’t following you? A free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. Create your own online newspaper from Twitter and Facebook updates based on any topic or group of contributors. A free service for setting up, promoting and hosting Twitter chats.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! These technologies include Browse My Stuff (which powers both the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ) and Paper.li , which enables users to create custom online “newspapers&# based on a Twitterer and his/her followers, a hashtag subject or a Twitter list. Tweet This!

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MARCH 30, 2012

do they have a blog, how prominently is it featured, social bookmarking links, social media account links, etc.). • Twitter metrics (followers, following, frequency of tweets, general level of interactivity). Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. followers/fans/circles, how complete is their profile, level of activity).

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

According to research from BuzzFeed , “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.” But what does it mean?

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Web Traffic Tracking Alternatives to Google Analytics by uber.la. Dainis Graveris presents 33 plugins to “power up and evolve comment form possibilities and security,” including Disqus, WP Ajax Edit Comments, Comment Rating and Twitter Avatars in Comments. to improve load times).

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Among the top 100 global brands, just 31 CMOs maintain active Twitter accounts, and only six of those big-brand CMOs have more than 10,000 Twitter followers. The “most important” social networks to teens and young adults (aged 12-24) are now Instagram (32%), Twitter (24%), Facebook (14%), Snapchat (13%) and Tumblr (4%).

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AUGUST 23, 2011

But it’s been the top source of visits for nine of the past 10 months (the only exception resulting from the spike in direct and referral traffic to the Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter post). Of the top dozen sources of traffic, four were social networking or related sites: Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and HootSuite.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Research shows that marketers generally focus on three social networks: LinkedIn (91%), Twitter (85%), and Facebook (81%). Google Plus, 540 million active users. Twitter, 255 million active users. If you offer professional advice, services or products, LinkedIn and Twitter will yield the best results.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Twitter Pitching Etiquette: What works, what doesn’t… by COMMS Corner. Pitching on Twitter? Google Launches Blog Finder for Any Topic by ReadWriteWeb. PR pros shouldn’t rely solely on Google’s tool when developing an outreach list, but it’s a good one to add to their arsenal.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Why Quora Won’t be “Bigger than Twitter” by Smart Insights. In this amazingly prescient post, Dave Chaffey lists 14 reasons why Quora won’t overtake Twitter (yes, in early 2011, there were people who suggested that it would) including “Asking or answering questions isn’t a daily must for most.

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JUNE 20, 2011

It’s why a search for “social media sucks&# on Google yields almost 12 million results (so much for my SEO on this post, oh well). because there are more blog comments to respond to, more Twitter followers to check out, etc.). Google settled a lawsuit last fall relating to its Google Buzz service. Sadly, yes.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 13, 2010

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 7, 2011

Just 5% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2008; by the fall of last year, that figure was 87%, and Twitter is now adding 300,000 new users per day. link on Twitter. Post on Google Buzz. Facebook added more than 150 million new users in 2010. Social media will become targetable. Share this on Bebo.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

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 ). The social media release also links back to the company’s LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. Post on Google Buzz. Since many (most?)

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JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging) most productively for business. Post on Google Buzz. Tags: Social Media Marketing blogging Facebook LinkedIn marketing boot camp Minnesota online marketing SCORE social media event social media strategy social media training Twitter. . • Use specific social media tools (e.g. And much more.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Twitter is consistently rated as the second-best social network for B2B and tech companies, behind only LinkedIn. So, not surprisingly, the vast majority of Minnesota tech companies have a Twitter presence. But looking at current data, it doesn’t appear that all of them are using Twitter to its full potential.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, Create business accounts and actively participate on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+. It isn’t nice to try to fool Google, Yahoo!, Four Worthwhile Link Sources. Social media.

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MARCH 15, 2018

For example, one of my biggest goals with social media marketing is to drive more traffic to my business blog and website, especially with Twitter. Some of the best ways to use IFTTT for social media marketing/scheduling: Post your latest blog posts directly to Twitter, Facebook, and other major social networks.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Though Twitter is still the third-most popular social media platform according to eBizMBA , speculation about the company’s struggles abounds. News outlets from CNN to Wired to TechCrunch to The Verge have detailed Twitter’s struggles to grow its user base, increase advertising revenue, and innovate new products.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

For example, “PRO: Twitter gives us a great way to leverage PR. When we help clients generate news in the traditional news publications–both print and online–we will use Twitter to post links to those stories and give our clients a “shout out.&# Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Bebo. Share this on Mixx.

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