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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

But the connections between companies and their email subscribers are far stronger than the connections between companies and their social media subscribers. Companies are trying to stay top-of-mind among their prior customers, and incentivize those customers directly or indirectly to spread the word to their friends and associates.

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MAY 5, 2010

Because you see, unlike most communities that are created based on brand affinity, and then conduct market research as an aside (if at all), JaneNation was built to tap into the minds of America’s females. Fantastic idea and execution.RT @jaybaer: Research + brand community + marketing to women = social media success.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” ” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote , when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel.

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JULY 20, 2010

About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. population).

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JUNE 29, 2010

But all is not lost, if you just commit to turning away from Starsky & Hutch, and toward the opportunities for greater good.

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JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. You have to commit to social media for the long haul to see the benefits. Lastly, the people factor is huge.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs. link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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JULY 6, 2010

Most recently, Target partnered with Search Institute® to develop the ‘ Turn Summer Play into Summer Learning ’ series on its Facebook page, which provides parents with fun, weekly tips to help their child’s mind stay active during the summer with research on how it makes a positive impact on child development.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Size Doesn’t Matter I’m also often asked about how social media execution differs between large and small companies. The difference is actually very small, as the goal of social media is to make big companies act like small ones. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. CourtneyM This is a great review of the Forrester Research. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media).

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JUNE 2, 2010

[link] [link] UX Feeder Delicious: Do You Like How I Look In These Jeans – Social Curation | facebook | Social Media Consulting … [link] [Research] [link] UX Feeder Delicious: Do You Like How I Look In These Jeans – Social Curation | facebook | Social Media Consulting … [link] [Research] [link] UX Feeder Delicious: Do You Like (..)

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Oktopost

JULY 27, 2021

Business buyers spend 27% of their time independently researching potential purchases online. Savvy B2B marketers, who know where that research begins – search engines – can capitalize on this by using Search Marketing tactics. . Search marketing allows a business to capture valuable leads from buyers researching a purchase.

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APRIL 20, 2010

You are not alone…keyword research pays off in the #longtail [link] [link] Jamie’s Shared Items Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail: [link] [link] SEOP Great article. Thanks for the share. I myself is a blogger and have been targetting long tail key phrases sometimes.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week: 27% of People Try to Resolve Their Issues Another Way Before Calling Customer Service Lines. The social media stat of the week comes from… I guess it’s a management consultancy or a research group called the CFI Group. Eric : Ah yes, indeed. Call centers and whatnot.

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Visually SM

JULY 27, 2020

Influencer Marketing is a powerful strategy that enables great ROIs for brands. Therefore, the Klear platform is one of the most interesting social media tools that you can have. Another perk is discovering new people to connect with and systematically remove bad connections, using the discovery tools.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Social media scientist Dan Zarrella has some excellent research on social content best practices. Don’t make assumptions – test them. Vary time of day, day of week, phrasing, link placement, and other options, and thoroughly document your results.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I especially like your last point — if social media has changed anything, it's changed the definition of influence. What do you think? Frank_Strong This is a great post Jay.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? Because content is the most efficient form of marketing available. Smart, optimized content.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Thanks to my crack assistant Jess Ostroff for helping with the research. This is obviously invalid research statistically, but anecdotally it makes you wonder. This is obviously invalid research statistically, but anecdotally it makes you wonder. Thanks for this research. Thanks for boiling these down and providing links.

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MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How can you measure (or can you measure) social media ROI ? Find the answers to those questions and many more here in almost two dozen of the best social media guides, tips, tools, insights and rants of 2012. Social Media Marketing Guides and Tips. Fortune 500 CEOs Don’t Get Social Media! Research] by Heidi Cohen.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Now I know it is for social media gurus but for me it's not. My research focuses on organizations that align customer behavior with their corporate actions — with their actions not just fostering but ultimately inducing a needed behavior (a sale or lead).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? Right now, for example, we're carrying out a market insight and research project for for a pharmaceutical company that is taking advantage of our coverage of forums. —————- Topic Research – What exactly do you mean?

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MAY 17, 2012

Raven Internet Marketing Tools provides a bit more than your standard social media management or monitoring platform because it also includes SEO and advertising components, all of which you can measure and analyze individually from within Raven’s dashboard. Social CRM (currently in beta). Scheduling functionality.

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JULY 8, 2010

philosophy, Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! He lives in Cleveland and has not, to his knowledge, ever been bitten by a vampire—although he his cursed to roam the earth as a Cleveland Browns fan. Why is this? Why is this?

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Here’s a different spin on conversations with some research about the effectiveness of online conversations. Now to just figure out how to monitor and measure the ROI of that. Is a conversation a monologue, dialogue or could it even be a polylogue? I’m going to get a little education geeky and jargon filled.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic. More from Convince and Convert Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Will you do that for me please?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Her company Audience Audit provides strategic marketing support and audience segmentation research that helps organizations understand their customers better. I work for a small advertising agency that has seen huge results from SEO/SEM and social media. By doing the research, you meet the needs of both the client and customer.

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MAY 19, 2010

Content can give us value by (among other things): Making us money Saving us time Protecting us or those we love Educating us Entertaining us For example, if you are a CPA and you publish a [well researched and well written] article to your website called… 10 Tax Deductions Uncle Sam Wishes You Didn’t Know About I will grab the spoon and (..)

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MAY 2, 2017

The marketing performance management tools below go beyond standard web analytics apps, incorporating features like multi-channel tracking, revenue and ROI forecasting, and marketing campaign analytics. Sample review: “(BrightEdge) offers a complete platform for content ROI with the latest SEO technology. 1) GinzaMetrics.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

That’s the research study I’d like to see. There are dozens – maybe even hundreds – of people that I “know&# via social media, and consider to be friends. What this Edelman research demonstrates is that we’ve become a bunch of cynics, and who could blame us?

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. A new Pew Research study shows only 8% of U.S. Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A new research study of 1,400 U.S. Daily Twitter users are 300-400% more likely to write a blog, review products, upload videos, and every other social behavior, than are non-users. In fact, the research shows that 72% of daily Twitter users write a blog, 61% write at least one product review per month, and 53% upload videos.

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JUNE 30, 2010

When they wake up, 59% of consumers check their email account before anything else online, according to new research from ExactTarget (disclosure: client) , in a sweeping survey of 400+ Americans. link] ATG_ecommerce 59% of consumers check their email account as soon as they wake up, according to new research from @ExactTarget [link] Do you?

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