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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. By creating informative and engaging content, brands can cultivate relationships with customers and followers that lead to conversions. Social review sites.

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How to Get Found Where Your Buyers are Looking: Web Presence Optimization

Webbiquity SMM

To expand your online footprint within your market, think about three types of sites where you want a presence: Social media sites: these include social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), social content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare) and social bookmarking sites (Reddit, StumbleUpon, Diigo).

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Open social bookmarking service to rival Delicious

The Way of the Web

A quick check has shown that I’ve been using Delicious since November 2006 , although my addiction to Google Reader means I’ve never used social bookmarking as heavily as some friends and colleagues. on Twitter, 500+ on FB), and perhaps the mix of bookmarketing and social networking will change that in this case.

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How PR and Social Media Can Work Together

Webbiquity SMM

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 ). For SEO and traffic purposes, the press release and social media release link back to the company’s website/blog. Since many (most?)

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

With so many TARGETED potential customers, creating a business page is a must, but remember that it needs to be updated on a daily basis with not only promotional information, but engaging and interesting content as well. Twitter is full of people with things to say, and you can listen! There are over 230 million LinkedIn users and 2.7

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity SMM

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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What Content People Share And Why They Do It

Mindjumpers

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. You can connect with him on Twitter @Conversionation. From the business perspective, promotions and information score well. Why do people share content?

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