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Study shows social media drives sales

Sherrilynne Starkie

Research released today by LoyaltyOne and two leading North American academic institutions provides the long-awaited proof that social media interaction between a customer and a brand drives immediate and long-term sales increases. The Air Miles program logo in Canada since 2009. Related posts: Facebook advertising facts.

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Indians in Social Media (2009) «

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Royal Challengers Bangalore Fanatic Fans Challenge Basics of Search engine optimization (SEO) September 29, 2009.11:01 Having said that the ripples in the social media wave created by many Indians involved are ensuring that Social Media is taken to the next level.

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Gartner: fake social media reviews

Sherrilynne Starkie

“With over half of the Internet’s population on social networks, organizations are scrambling for new ways to build bigger follower bases, generate more hits on videos, garner more positive reviews than their competitors and solicit ‘likes’ on their Facebook pages,” said Jenny Sussin, senior research analyst at Gartner.

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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity SMM

According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006. Buyers appreciate business social media use. Small Business Trends ). 89% of U.S.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. were most (and least) popular?

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Best of Social Media on Kikolani in 2009

Kikolani

In conjunction with the best of blogging articles for 2009, here are the top social media articles on Kikolani this year. General Social Media. 2010 Social Media Wishlist for New Features on Facebook, StumbleUpon, and Twitter. SEO and Social Media. Social Media Resources.

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After Hiatus, Social Media Predictions & 2009

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Barcamp Delhi 5: Spreading the Word out ! Social Media Mercury rising up in India December 23, 2008.3:51 51 am After Hiatus, Social Media Predictions & 2009 Jump to Comments Image by Matt Hamm via Flickr Phew. Blogs , social-networks , communities etc. Fresh grads, corp.