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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that 47% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI? Another reason why marketers don’t measure content marketing ROI is that they simply don’t know how to do it. Following is a list of 15 content marketing metrics that you should measure: 1. Unique Visits.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Content marketing is all the rage, and for good reason: it works. With 70% of internet users saying they’d prefer to learn through content rather than ads , content marketing makes perfect sense. Still, there’s a lot more that goes into content marketing than simply writing a blog about a new product.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2012

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Admittedly, I am a market skeptic, and Facebook had a strange first day on the market by popping six percent and cruising back down to a 23 cent gain at the bell.

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JUNE 27, 2014

From a marketing perspective, that’s silly, especially given my line of work. Social media’s a lot of fun, but never more so when it helps you fill in the blanks. When Social Media Fills In The Blanks is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. I’d rather play with Suzy Q., Sometimes you just gotta __.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

The points he tweeted back basically amounted to just one: social media cannot be used to sell anything, so why deceive people with tips to help them do that? I’m not a social media evangelist, and I’m very cautious about how I engage in this space. What kinds of arguments did you make? Did it work?

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JANUARY 29, 2019

For businesses to remain competitive, a significant effort in achieving marketing automation is required, as the gains to consumer interactions and experience, and company productivity and profit are many to be had. Analytics is a prime example of how marketers and businesses can benefit from automation. Feature #2: Email marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 12, 2012

“Real” people don’t “do” social media like we do. By “we,” I mean people like you and I (or, at least, like I used to be), who are on social all the time. Traditional media relations is still very important in most agencies, and to most clients. I mean, all.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? This week’s roundup introduces you to some best practices for social media metrics. 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday. From likes to leads: The new metrics for B2B social selling.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2013

By now your seasonal marketing campaign should be well under way. And even though you’ve placed your media buy and have your media relations program in gear, are you still looking for that extra edge to your marketing efforts? Below you’ll find three ways to boost your seasonal marketing with Pinterest.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 24, 2013

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. If social media and blogs in the U.S

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JULY 11, 2012

Social media listening. Social media monitoring. Social media tracking. Social media intelligence. There are many descriptions of how we can use social media as a listening tool , to complement (or replace) our more interactive approach where we converse too. Challenge on.

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JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re a clever cookie, you already have figured out the rest of the story at this point: Social media philosopher ponders how to push his message into the future. Social media philosopher realizes he does this all the time with business. Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever.

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JUNE 27, 2012

These days, it moves really quickly… we now get to know about earthquakes around the world on social media platforms even before the news reaches broadcasters. According to a Mckinsey report , social media enables a consumer’s decision-making journey. How Nissan Micra Rode the Social Media Bandwagon.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 24, 2011

Fifty-four percent of AMEC (The International Association of Measurement and Evaluation of Communications) members were worried about the health of the industry, predicting worsening market conditions. After all, as long as there is a demand for the metric, it is bound to remain commercially available on the market.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

If you are reading this blog, chances are you don’t need to be told about the merits of social media. Social media just changes the way these things happen … and how fast people are punished by the marketplace if they don’t do it effectively. All things the department did before social media.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

All the comments were thoughtful, but there were a few that made me think a lot more about this whole “social media&# thing. But truth be told, after a while, this ‘social media’ stuff has made me consciously LESS social both in person and online, and I have my reasons. Interesting.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Ask questions on social media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 23, 2011

It’s not enough to pick one of the “personalities” under which social media users have been classified and run with that, because a) no one’s purely one or the other, and b) you can’t differentiate yourself by working a label. But your vibe lives independently of those categories. Image: amonja via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 12, 2014

For marketers, memes may have come to represent something very different: an “in” with the “Internet culture” crowd. What we’re talking about here is memejacking: another of those made-up-sounding words that has come to have a welcome place in the marketer’s toolkit. Memes are also perfect for use on social sites.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

But considering that there are plenty of other social media fish in the sea, it’s not his best option in terms of the time he has available. There are incredible demographic numbers available for most social media platforms now. Don’t assume that social media comprises just Twitter, Facebook and maybe LinkedIn.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A recent visit to our campus by journalist Chantal Hébert and her lecture “Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Look at the State of Political Coverage in the Social Media Era” had me thinking about how I use these tools. Pretty soon the vast majority of the people I followed were communications, marketing and PR professionals.

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MAY 29, 2012

And for big brands that can’t always respond to every mention, it is important to be talked about on social media networks. Howie Goldfarb is president and CEO of Sky Pulse Media , an agency focused on helping clients achieve outsize results in measurable bottom-line-impacting ways.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

In fact, heavy manufacturing is probably the only exception in sectors that have been compelled to adopt social as a medium to “be remarkable&# in human terms to their followers. Consequently, social media agencies have mushroomed , with their fair share of self-confessed SM consultants cashing in on the tide.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2015

Here are some of the most interesting posts on 2015 marketing and PR trends we’ve seen. How 4 Social Media Predictions Impact Email Marketers. 30+ Social Media Predictions for 2015. .” 30+ Social Media Predictions for 2015. 6 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2015.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. Completely. Here’s the interview.

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JULY 3, 2013

But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2016

Social media has paved the way for us to meet like-minded people from all over the world. Last year, I started a Twitter chat called #SocialPowWow in order to have a meeting ground on Twitter for PR pros, marketers and startups from India and across the world. How did these chats help me? Birth of #SocialPowWow.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 15, 2012

But one of the reasons I was really excited to be going was that I’d be able to catch up with Gini Dietrich , who has become a dear friend of mine even though we only met IRL a year ago… and get a (free) copy of the book she’s co-authored with Geoff Livingston , Marketing in the Round. Sorry, but they are! … So.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 13, 2016

This is where influencer marketing comes to the rescue. Loosely defined as a marketing strategy involving influencers to impact buyer decisions and boost a brand’s visibility by using their online personality and popularity, influencer marketing has many takers. ” Often, marketers equate influencers with celebrities.

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APRIL 22, 2016

– influencer marketing best practices, relationship-building, and measuring your efforts. They included: Gini Dietrich , CEO of Arment Dietrich and queen creator of the popular Spin Sucks blog community; Founder of the influencer marketing platform Traackr (my client), Pierre-Loic Assayag (my friend!) Or was it a sow?

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 11, 2011

Social media talking heads and agencies will use fancy numbers because they look impressive, and it benefits their businesses. Social networks will also do the same, partially to attract news coverage, members, and investors. If you read the news or popular blogs, you get a lot of numbers thrown at you. It’s simple math.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 5, 2011

Instead of always talking about what PR can learn from marketing analytics, what if we asked what marketing can learn from PR measurement? The campaign content and its distribution tends to be different, but the media-related research questions are similar.&#. Pretty radical, eh? It was really interesting.

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MARCH 30, 2015

So if your marketing feels as if it might be in a rut (already!), Here are some ideas on “buzz marketing” (I know, I know). 6 Buzz Phrases Marketers Should Take Seriously in 2015. Winning the Marketing Battle Between Help and Hype. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral.

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JUNE 24, 2019

On the marketing dance floor, influencer marketing is all the craze-because it works. In fact, 58 percent of brands have seen improved brand awareness and perception from influencer marketing campaigns. This is great news for marketers looking to increase the impact of their campaigns. Think Beyond Social Media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2011

The daily PR & Marketing calendar of event hashtags. Of course there are numerous PR industry events, from local meetings to international conferences, that I would like to follow on any given day, but where is a simple calendar of all of the daily PR & Marketing hashtags? ‘Cos you know, that is what Iizallabout!

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APRIL 15, 2016

As more and more brands jump on the influencer marketing bandwagon, how they structure influencer programs and communications is becoming increasingly important. But I don’t need to have signed up to know one thing: this company is not engaging in true influencer marketing. Here are some guidelines. Create content?

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