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5 Money Saving Marketing and Branding Tips for Startups

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Let me set the scene: The founder and the coders are desperately trying to hire new developers in a competitive market, time is short and so is money. And yet, it’s patently obvious no one except the wildly erratic investor, who also spend a load of cash on billboards, has started to even think about marketing and branding.

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The Viral Marketing Virus

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Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

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Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Here’s the great thing: by their very nature, Twitter-peeps share something in common, making it a very powerful marketing tool. Everyone is doing it. Ah, events.

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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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But 2012 will see some changes in this area and as a marketer, its none too soon. Content, Content, Video: Creating content will continue to be a considerable aspect of a social media program. We’ll see more and more video as the content type of choice. Its faster, easier to consume and more entertaining.

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YES YOU CAN Measure Social Media

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from Word of Mouth, PR and advertising models and most importantly, we can approach measuring social media in the same exact way we measure other marketing programs – by tying them to business goals and using Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). But I DO believe we can borrow established methodology (why reinvent ALL the wheels?)

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6 Things To Empower Your Social Media Campaign

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Even if you outsource your content to a PR or video firm, you’ll still need to be involved with the topics and subjects. If you utilize non-digital forms of marketing, then let your social media pro in on the details. You’ll probably quickly get to the point where content creation becomes a topic.

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What's your social currency?

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Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. Lurkers turn the tables a bit on marketers. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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