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How Much Should You Pay Social Media Influencers?

Sprout Social

Recent Nielsen research found that word-of-mouth recommendations continue to outperform all other advertising types. Nielsen found 83% of Americans somewhat or completely trust endorsements and recommendations from people they know. You can’t pay student loan bills with free samples.

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Social Media Research: Interview with Joel Rubinson of ARF - Part I

Diva Marketing Blog

  Many cases are now documented in books, articles, presentations where it did…by Nielsen Online, by Charlene Li at our recent conference in San Francisco, by MTV and Schwab via managed online communities. Others will be presented at our annual conference at the end of March.

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This Week in Social Media - 3/19/2013

Social Media Marketing

Nielsen has profiled "zero-TV" households, and it has more than doubled since 2007 to more than 5 million households. This is a segment that will start being included in measurement samples for 2013-14. Of them, 75% have only one TV and 67% get their content on devices other than TVs. At issue: making claims clear in short form.

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6 Science-Backed Strategies to Get More Followers on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and More

Buffer Social

The Rutgers team ended up creating the term “meformer” after analyzing data from a sampling of Twitter accounts. Researchers rated a sample of tweets and assigned a category to each. Nielsen research conducted a study for Twitter UK back in March, revealing the top ten reasons why people follow brands.

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