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Are You Adding To The Noise?

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There is a concept in social media circles known as your signal-to-noise ratio. In social media terms, your signal-to-noise ratio is the amount of actual value that you provide relative to the nonsense you churn. Reduce the noise and you improve your social media signal. What is meant by that exactly?

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Mobile Advertising Segmentation – Tablets & Smartphones

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Here’s a run down of some of the more interesting findings: Smartphones dominate games, social media, communications, productivity apps, news, weather, dating, sports, and shopping. That’s why you’ll see things like social media, news, and weather being dominated by those devices. Use it wisely.

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Pinterest Is Getting More Interesting

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As if the fast growing social media site Pinterest wasn’t interesting, they’ve recently added a new feature to make it more so. Social Media Pinterest' They’re calling it Interests. It’s a simple concept, really. The idea is to provide broad categories for users to place their pins. Celebrities.

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Four Traditional Marketing Tactics That Work Well Online

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To prevent this, many business owners become involved in local social activities. Sponsoring sporting events, schools or charities made good sense – you were out there shaking hands and making friends with the world. Online, social media marketing has a similar approach.

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Using The Facebook Timeline To Boost Your Brand

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Come March 30, the Facebook Timeline rollout will be complete with all business pages also sporting the new look. This will make Facebook an important part of any social media branding campaign , especially if you can collect a lot of followers. There are positives and negatives to come out of this change.

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Why PPC For Small Business Is A Preferred Model

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Marketing is always a thorny issue – how do you measure the success of sponsoring a local sporting team? For that matter, how do you measure the success of an online social media campaign? Business manager from both sides are only interested in one thing – growth in both sales and profitability.