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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

With social media marketing, you can undeniably grow your audience, gain visibility and exposure for your company/products/services, provide outstanding customer service, and – yes – generate business and increase sales. Social Media Referral Traffic and Visitor Increase to your Website. Email Collection.

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The Dirty Dozen Top 12 Social Media Mistakes to Avoid

Webbiquity SMM

There have been numerous posts written about the pitfalls of social media marketing (including helpful pieces from Online Social Networking , Sysomos , and one I wrote for HubSpot ). Social media is about having a conversati0n with your prospects, not broadcasting to them. Failing to LISTEN.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

The social media software industry offers some amazing functionality, but it suffers mightily from murky messaging and customer confusion. There are five specific categories of social media software, and lumping them all under “social media management” does us all a disservice.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. What about you?

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State of Social Media in the USA

Jeff Esposito

Earlier this month, Adam Vincenzini and I had an interesting talk on the state of social media around the world. Now it’s my turn to return serve and dish out the state of social media in the former colony. 46% of US small businesses utilize social media in their marketing mix ( Vistaprint ).

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Top Blogging Statistics: 45 Reasons to Blog

Writtent Blog

Whether you are a small business owner just learning nuts and blots of blogging magic or already a blogging guru, you need to keep abreast of the most important blogging trends if you want to succeed in your blogging efforts. Tweet (Source: Sysomos ). 8) 23% of total Internet usage time is devoted to social networks or blogs.

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25 Compelling Reasons to Blog for Business Yesterday

Writtent Blog

Search leads are more than twice as likely to become customers as clicks from paid search, and are significantly more qualified than social media leads. Nielson has found that 45% of consumers turn to social media to talk about companies, and 35% contribute to online review websites. Your Competitors Are Blogging, a Lot.

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