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Do You Pre-Schedule Social Media Messages?

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As more and more small business owners take up social media marketing , applications have been developed to make that process easier. Some of those applications have features that allow you to pre-schedule your messages for various social media outlets. Social media is about audience engagement.

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Social Media: The New Word Of Mouth

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A new study shows that small business owners recognize the value of word of mouth advertising, but they don’t see a need for social media. Perhaps SMBs are not aware that social media is the new word of mouth. Word of mouth advertising is essential, but in the future that word of mouth will travel via social media.

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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. Tablets dominate travel and local. Mobile Marketing for Small Business mobile advertising mobile search smartphones Social Media tablets'

Mobile 101
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Don’t Overlook What Only Your Business Can Do

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Social media marketing tends to have a global outlook, but it is built on a local foundation. Time zones are a symptom of modern technology because when you didn’t travel fast, you didn’t need to have them. All the strategies and techniques of social media marketing are worthless if the trust is not there.

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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.

Film 101
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What’s A Rich Pin?

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Most likely, you’ll see Rich Pins for books, music, auto and travel categories, and possibly for other categories as well. Social Media e-commerce Pinterest Rich Pins' This is just a start to the Rich Pins addition. There will likely be other pins coming in the near future.

Travel 101
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Why You Should Not Give Up On E-mail Marketing

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The top click-through rates for e-mail marketing are for the Hobbies, Media and Publishing, and Photo and Video tied with Home and Garden industries (5.7%, 4.8%, and 4.2%, respectively). For e-mail engagement, the lodging and travel sector leads the way with a 56.7% unique open rate. In fact, they go on to say about U.S.

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