Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 18, 2010

I recently spoke at a little breakfast meeting of a 100 people or so and I knew that the economy was still being unkind to small business owners. I knew they were still trying to wrestle with the alternative options that social media might provide. They are your lifeblood and THEY are using social networks with or without you.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. While three-quarters of marketers consider measurement of social media impact important, 70% say that measuring those results is difficult. Visual.ly ).

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Absolute PA

JUNE 15, 2013

And, just to make it really clear that Twitter is holding its ground as a social media contender, I’m calling in the statisticians… It was the fastest growing social network last year, adding 40% more active users in the last 6 months of 2012. (US It Sets Your Inner Social Butterfly Free. Of course not.

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Kikolani

APRIL 7, 2010

Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc. If you want to know real time what people are saying, you can setup a Twitter searc h in HootSuite , Tweetdeck , or just keep a RSS feed in your feed reader using Twitter search results.

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Kikolani

MAY 21, 2010

Facebook: the big picture for small business. Facebook and other networks caught sending user data to advertisers. 7 ad networks to build passive income on your website. Affiliate marketing and its bad reputation. Social media snapshot – are you just showing up or actually making an impact on social media.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter offers small businesses and independent professionals unique opportunities to out-maneuver their larger competitors, by using the social network as a real-time prospecting and customer service system. Some of their cries will be relevant to you and your business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

HootSuite puts all the accounts in one single interface (you can do the same with TweetDeck and Seesmic, I believe), but in terms of passwords, I usually use KeePass to store them with other relevant account information. Let new prospects find you organically based on your messages and reap the rewards.

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