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Airbnb Social Media Strategy: Sharing Stories, Building Community

Keyhole.co

Founded in 2008, Airbnb struggled to build trust in its unique business model initially. In this exponential success, social media played a significant role. But how did they hit the marketing bullseye with their social handles? So, of course, YouTube has to be a significant part of the brand’s social media presence.

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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

Marc Meyer and Jason Breed have done an amazing job over the last year plus bringing in some highly respected and social-media-knowledgeable folks like Chris Brogan , Amber Naslund , Beth Harte and Jason Falls. When combining social media with other interactive marketing practices, the results can magnify both.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have. People are the fuel behind social media, which is really just tools and tactics. Do they use social platforms and if so, how often and why?

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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

Akamai Marketing

Most obvious of these is Google Analytics. Another is the popular “Add This&# which also offers analytic information. Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. Its that we need a tool that does what it does really well.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

Below are 5 social media must-reads from last week that we wouldn’t want you to miss. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Advanced Social Media Search. By Ann Smarty Social media search — the ability to tap into thousands of real-time updates — has long been a hot topic. As was 2009 and 2008.

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10 Free Facebook Marketing Tools for your Social Media Campaigns

OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

Facebook has 80 million+ Business Pages, and today, Facebook is the largest social media network spread over worldwide with its 2.45 Facebook Analytics. Socialoomph is a social media post scheduler for your Facebook campaign that boosts your outcome from Facebook with its advanced post scheduling tools since 2008.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

The quicker the response, the happier the complainer and the more impressed the social media listeners are. Give them a private way to stay in touch (so they can voice their concerns to their new friend on the inside as opposed to using social media). What’s your social currency? But not really.