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What Wikipedia Won’t Tell You About Video with Tyler Lessard

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Marketers who use video grow revenue 49% faster than non-video users. It’s clear sellers need it, but what’s the real secret to using them to explode sales and drive marketing? Tyler , father of 4, watcher of Westworld, author of The Visual Sale , fearless marketer. More About Tyler Lessard.

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Study shows social media drives sales

Sherrilynne Starkie

Photo credit: Wikipedia). AIR MILES collectors were encouraged to engage with the AIR MILES-hosted social community website by sharing thoughts about the brand or participating in promotions; they were rewarded either with a small number of bonus miles or entry to a lottery for large prizes. Wikipedia rules the waves.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

You can see the forest and the trees in big data, according to Nora Young , the Canadian author and the host of CBC Radio One’s Spark, in her opening keynote at last week’s Fireworks Factory conference held on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Successful social media marketing to moms.

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Why SEOs Need to Pay Attention to Freebase

Bill Hartzer

If you are an online marketer, and, more specifically, and SEO ( search engine optimization professional), you need to start paying more attention to Freebase , which is a part of the Knowledge Graph. And Freebase, as well as Wikipedia and a host of other sources, make up the Knowledge Graph.

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Mayor Jim Watson named 2014 communicator of the year by IABC Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Mayor Watson will be recognized at the IABC Ottawa 2014 Excel Award Gala on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at the National Arts Centre, the largest gathering of the year for Ottawa’s communications, marketing and creative design community.

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Incompatible

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In this week's, Six Links Worth Of Your Attention #18 , Hugh McGuire (from Librivox , iambik and a co-host on Media Hacks ) recommended that I watch the Bloomberg TV documentary, Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs , on Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. They don't care much about market research or customer insights. Revolutionary.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting. Next time you proceed in a social media marketing campaign, follow some ideas and steps: Know your market.