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What Does 2013 Hold for Social Media?

Mindjumpers

As for 2013, Mindjumpers’ CEO and founder, Jonas Klit Nielsen, predicts that we are heading towards a future where brands invest in people who are highly skilled in content creation and where brands become publishers: “Companies need to be ready to think as publishers and not marketers. US digital media usage: A snapshot of 2013.

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Fetching Friday – 20 Marketing Links & Sad Cat Diary

Kikolani

Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy with 8 Keyword Tracking Tips – If the success of your content marketing strategy is in any way dependent on SEO and search rankings, explore these 8 tools and tactics to track your keywords. Content marketing metrics is about measuring the results. Blogging / Content.

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The Best Way to Keep Up With Marketing Technology and Trends

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com Since the days of yore, marketing strategy has been designed for the same purpose: sell more stuff. Marketing tactics, on the other hand, are a different kind of animal. The Problem Due to the constant shifting sands of marketing, DataSift’s product is constantly evolving. DataSift Who is Datasift?

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Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience

Convince & Convert

Tim Washer , Senior Marketing Manager in Social Media at Cisco , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the value in making your customers laugh, how to spend less and storytell more, and bringing ridiculousness to big corporations. From Cision , a free ebook called Power Your Story: Content Marketing Essentials.

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3 Big Questions for Social in 2014: Celebrating 100 Episodes of Social Pros

Convince & Convert

From Cision , a free ebook called Power Your Story: Content Marketing Essentials. And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. Take a page out of Eric’s book and, “Partner with the people who already have the audience aggregated.” Listen Now. Keith Richards.

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Contagion, Social Media, and Why Things Catch On

Convince & Convert

Jonah Berger , Marketing Professor at the Wharton School , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss his bestseller Contagious: Why Things Catch on , the science behind those viral marketing hits, and the importance of setting realistic and helpful goals with a viral marketing campaign. Jonah Berger, Wharton @j1berger.

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New Research: Do Pictures of People Increase Facebook Engagement?

Convince & Convert

Marketers often spend hours selecting and producing visual content to post on Facebook brand pages. We used Taggs’ visual content marketing software to index 3,656 brand images published on Facebook since the start of the year. Key Takeaways for Visual Content Marketing on Facebook. The Research Methods Behind the Madness.

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