Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

For many news pages, social media has become the number one referrer and we are seeing some evidence that websites in the travel vertical and other such experience/story based content websites are moving towards the same pattern.

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2012

LinkedIn Hacked: How To Protect Yourself Online. By Shayndi Rice and Ben Worthen The social-networking service for professionals has been criticized for not including an extra layer of password security known as salting, and for not having a chief security officer. LinkedIn Defends Reaction in Wake of Password Theft.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 30, 2012

The Marketer’s Scoop on Instagram and How to Use It. By Corey Eridon Not everyone should be on every social network. At the same time, it adds another layer of elegance and artfulness. That’s what makes its stories so appealing, and (for me) why it breaks new ground.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 11, 2010

The 400 page book, written with Doug Karr , will help you discover how to prepare, execute, establish, and promote a corporate blogging strategy so that you can reap the rewards that corporate blogging offers. Corporate Blogging for Dummies , co-authored by Firebelly Vice President Chantelle Flannery is now available for purchase!

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Firebelly

JULY 23, 2010

Heres a simple primer, a list of do-nots that will help you to avoid some of social medias most perilous pitfalls. How to Use Social Media to Rank on Google Now that Google is indexing social media content in real-time, how can you leverage blogs and social networks to rank on Google?

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I'll be talking about how to move your community online, how to build it and how to measure your work. They've got a moonlight monument bus tour and tickets to "the Social Network". We'll be discussing innovation for small business. Entertainment I've heard rumors that the happy hour really gets people happy.

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Firebelly

MARCH 18, 2011

It’s no secret that I’m a WordPress advocate, but I’ve just recently discovered one of the project’s most impressive features– running a social network. BuddyPress markets itself as “social networking in a box.&# Before jumping to set up your network, consider a few thoughts.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 12, 2011

How to Increase Participation in Your Twitter Chat or Any Online Community. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012. By Brian Solis At the end of 2011, Social marketing stands at a profound crossroads. By Mack Collier Interaction and participation. Others see the future value, but lag behind in execution.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

You’ll learn how to identify your content assets, use a push and pull approach, the social platforms that can work for you, a review of the monitoring tools, and see case studies of companies doing it right.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 29, 2011

By Marcus Taylor This may be the bazillionth blog post written on the topic of how to get more Facebook likes. Instead, Facebook is using the location model that other social networks such as Twitter have adopted, where you add location data to your regular posts instead of sharing your location just for the sake of sharing your location.

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Firebelly

MAY 30, 2011

Below are 5 social media must-reads that we wouldn’t want you to miss. How to Optimize your Contests for the Highest Entry Rates! By Wildfire While video, photo, and essay contests are the most inherently social promotion apps you can run for your fans, not all contests perform equally.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 22, 2018

If you want to explore paid ads short term, it’s more practical to start with one social network and see what kind of immediate results you get. Facebook and Instagram are potent when it comes to producing web traffic, with LinkedIn coming in a close third. Apply Facebook retargeting to generate even more traffic.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 18, 2010

Learn how to make data-driven decisions about content by using Insights, launch "legal" contests and promotions via the Wildfire application, and create an engaging landing tab for your Page with Static FBML. You can find Firebelly speaking at the following sessions.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off) By Gina Trapani Googles new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Heres how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely. Mobile social networks will reach 223 million people around the world.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Google+ has only been launched for a few months and, since then, the social networking world has been stuck in a heated debate over who will “win.&# Even the most basic Facebook user knows how to go someone’s profile and post a picture to their wall. The 35-64 demographic is just as big as 18-25.

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Firebelly

MAY 25, 2010

Several of our clients came to Firebelly after having negative experiences with a wide variety the "social media gurus" out there. I love the line, "No one knows how to handle your customers like a total stranger working for $6 an hour." " Do not call this guy!

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Firebelly

JULY 22, 2010

Find him on Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted | Permalink Reblog (0) | | Digg This | Save to del.icio.us | TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How One Unhappy Customer Multiplies Across Social Media : Comments Great story Chad.and not too surprising to me.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 15, 2010

Facebook, Twitter 2-way Lifeline for Haiti By Judy Keen A photographer documenting a missionary groups work in Saint-Marc, is among many people using social-networking sites to share news and photos, ask for help finding missing loved ones or seek donations. Here are 5 news items or blog posts that I wouldnt want you to miss: 1.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 6, 2009

(I couldn’t find a video of the entire video, so here’s a small portion) Hearing Martha’s Twitter story got me thinking about how I started using Twitter and how far I’ve advanced in my knowledge of how to use it as a free marketing tool. How did you start using Twitter, and how have you grown with the service since that time?

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Group lists top five social media risks for businesses By Sharon Gaudin As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise, an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 31, 2015

Which social networks should your brand be on? To make things easier for you, the good people at Sprout Social have created this infographic detailing demographics on the most popular social networks. 10 FACE / Shutterstock.com. Are your people on the platforms you’re using? Get in touch!

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Firebelly

MAY 21, 2010

Its kind of an interesting services, but more and more grandmas are joining Facebook so I dont know how successful it will be. How to Convert Your Facebook Superfans Into Brand Ambassadors By Aliza Sherman This week, I’m going to discuss how to harness the passion of the superfan in order to convert them into an ambassador for your brand.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It is used todemonstrate how to be hip, modern and cool in a manner no other medium canprovide.    How do you use video to market your product? Although the videois critical, it still contributes to Apple’s marketing because the Apple brandingis used, critical or otherwise. Summary of today’s lesson: Video is all around us.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 13, 2010

When you mentioned my facebook faux-pas at H&C and I asked HOW to stop the twitter spigot on my facebook page, I wasn't kidding. I spent too much time trying to figure out how to do it. You made a brilliant observation in recognizing the fact that each social media platform has its own distinct lexicon. @Amy:

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Firebelly

AUGUST 27, 2010

How To Use Facebook Places For Your Business Want to have your own business show up within Facebook Places? As such, Facebook has released a new guide for businesses to learn how to merge Facebook Pages and Facebook Places into a single Page. Here are 5 articles to help you understand its relevancy to your business.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

By Benny Evangelista and James Temple In his first public appearance since Facebook’s stock flopped in May, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the social network is staking its future on mobile devices, but admitted that he bet on the wrong technology to get there. is doing a better job than Google Inc.

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Firebelly

APRIL 9, 2012

Here are 5 must-reads on social media ROI that we don’t want you to miss. 5 Social Media Metrics That Matter Now. By Debra Donston-Miller As businesses get more sophisticated in their use of social networking, so too are the metrics by which they measure social business ROI.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 20, 2012

Why Online Influencer Outreach is Overrated and How to Fix It. Social Media Influencers vs Social Media Ambassadors: What is Their True Value?

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Firebelly

AUGUST 8, 2011

By Debbie Hemley The apps listed below were recommended by a number of businesspeople through a query I posted on HARO, others that people had been talking about in blog posts, on Quora and social networking sites. How to Create a Facebook Marketing Strategy for a Non Profit.

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Firebelly

JUNE 18, 2010

Would love to see them add social sharing functionalities to the editor that make it even easier to share the video directly from the video itself. How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself By Tamar Weinberg If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck.

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Firebelly

MARCH 29, 2013

We check all our social networks multiple times a day. I think about how to lead my team, about how to improve the lives of our people, how we can do better work and how I can have more time with my family (a few of the dominant themes anyway). Tomorrow is no longer fast enough for many of us.

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