Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. The Most Buried News Sites on Digg News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Sites News YouTube Press Release 182

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 17, 2011

Several great new features were recently added to the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer by co-founder Tony Karrer. One of the most obvious is that posts now include images, making the sites more visually appealing than the former text-only design. Posts on both sites are categorized by subject.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Don’t fabricate this).

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Sprout Social

JUNE 27, 2023

According to The Sprout Social Index™ 2022, 34% of customers believe it’s important for brands to speak out to remain culturally relevant. Competitor analysis tools , like Sprout, aggregate this data into ready-to-use reports for fast insights into your industry position.

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The Realtime Report

AUGUST 1, 2014

This is a guest post written by Lisa Smith, Director of Media and Markets Research/Mindwave Research. Even when we first began analyzing web site traffic we had a manageable set of properties to measure. Social media, blogs, and discussion boards mean that users generate as much online content as brands do. So What’s Next?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 12, 2012

NutshellMail users social network updates so they don’t have to login and check. UserVoice creates engaging survey forms on Facebook and other sites to solicit feedback from fans and visitors. MemoLane is a “virtual scrapbook” generated by a user’s social media history.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 18, 2014

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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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2011

But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly. Of the top dozen sources of traffic, four were social networking or related sites: Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and HootSuite.

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Syndication Data How To HootSuite 186

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Fast forward to present day where a social presence is an expectation for businesses, with 80% of marketers relying on social media to raise brand awareness. If you’re starting from scratch, the following list of social media marketing basics can help get your presence off the ground. Think about it.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 12, 2019

It’s a tricky question to answer because one of the first rules for marketing on Reddit — one of the first rules for marketing on any social media site, really — is that you have to be genuinely engaged and committed to the communities you’re part of. About Reddit Marketing. Come along!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

In my post on news sites on the new Digg I noted that NBC has created a series of city-specific profiles to target local markets. Lauren: The ten profiles are a joint effort between myself and the social media lead in each of the 10 markets. Has there been interest/demand for market-specific content?

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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

The client wants to know if their social media campaign is working! They want to understand how social media marketing will meet their goals before they commit to a budget allocation for a “mythical campaign&#. Social media sharing / participation (activity on key social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc).

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 30, 2018

What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. On the flip side, 92% of marketers and 88% of influencers report using Instagram more often for campaigns. Snapchat Makes Updates.

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Social Media Privacy YouTube Aggregator 97

Kikolani

MAY 24, 2013

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. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 7, 2023

At the end of the day, we want to cut through the noise and leave a lasting impression that grabs market share. This further strengthens your efforts to build brand loyalty and trust—two things that influence up to 58% of consumers’ decision to choose a brand over competitors, according to The Sprout Social Index 2022™.

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Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I’m the biggest proponent of social media that you could possibly find but I am also the one that told my daughter that she doesn’t need Facebook. I also told a group of 400 parents and educators that anyone under the age of 16 doesn’t need to be on a social network. She’s 14. So what happened?

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 8, 2011

Your RSS aggregator – Do you subscribe to the most popular blogs in your niche? Niche social networking sites – Have you found one that serves your niche? No matter what industry or niche you serve, these 21 sources for blog post ideas are golden opportunities. Twitter – Who do you follow? Google Alerts.

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Yahoo Directory Aggregator Forums 177

Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2014

Tweetable Moments Too many marketers these days are like T-rexes, with little, tiny arms. Today, despite the fractured social media landscape, their community still has one central home on the web: the VMware Community site. This begs the question: is social media, in its current incarnation, serving the senior population?

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 15, 2010

However, Audience really focuses in a different direction, providing tools that should pique the interest of your sales, marketing and community management folks alike. Audience tracks visitors to your site alongside their previous web activity, and helps to determine whether each person is a real lead or is just browsing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

AddShoppers ** is one of the coolest technologies I have ever seen for the e-commerce space and is the only offering I have encountered that has such a breadth of data on social ROI in online retail environments. Add tags to the footer of your site, and all systems go! Does Social Media Impact Sales at Tobacco and Adult Themed Stores?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Related posts: Video Interview: Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Like Search So Much I Hope News Corp Does Block its Content from Google The Wrap, Newser and Content Aggregation: How Much Attribution is Enough?

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. Brands have realized that social networks offer an opportunity to interact directly with consumers. She also blogs at [link]. Influencer identification.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Firebelly

JANUARY 20, 2010

This week, however, I want to talk about those who aggregate content from all over the web and syndicate it through their Twitter streams. They were simply aggregating content from around the web and pushing it through their Twitter stream. You get the point. They werent interacting with anyone. They werent saying anything.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 22, 2011

It sits squarely in the social networking space, but it has a different twist - one from which I think businesses may be able to gain valuable insights, all while allowing people to enjoy themselves. But like the other sites, it's also a social network itself. What is it? Yes, that's an actual term.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

But before we dismiss online and social media sources as nothing more than aggregators and promotion outlets, let’s remember that this study reflects the state of the news ecosystem today. Things are just now beginning to shift as the economic viability of the current model is beginning to fail.

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Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 24, 2011

If you’ve been in this business for any length of time, then its time to take your collective aggregate knowledge of social media and add it to the overall mix of what you know and do. We’re at least five years in and I want you to quit being a social media specialist, because you aren’t one any longer.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap! Options to post content to 50+ social media sites and more! displays notifications for new messages. post images to yfrog.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 8, 2019

When we talk about online social listening, we’re referring to social sites beyond “the big five” (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest). Consider the sheer popularity of sites such as YouTube, Reddit and Quora. Sounds pretty “social” to us! Why online social listening matters. Good question!

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Reddit Tumblr YouTube Review 99

Koka Sexton

MAY 14, 2011

Social Media Policy. Editorial Guidelines, personal use of Social Networking. Use of Social Networking and other third party websites. Staff/Volunteer Presence on Social Networking Sites. Online Technologies, Social Media and Bread. Social Media Policy. Social Media Tips.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 29, 2011

Being a Chief Marketing Officer is no easy gig. So, what do CMOs really want out of Social Media (and do they think it's going to save them)? report titled, CMOs On Social Marketing Plans For 2011. When you add the word "marketing" to "social media" its about business. What does this all mean?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

CNN.com is soliciting user feedback by including a prominent survey link at the top of the page: It will be interesting to see how NewsPulse changes user behavior on the site over time. It has the potential to increase the number of stories read per visit, resulting in more page views and time on site.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 10, 2011

Networks, apps, aggregators, blogs, microblogs-copy what works, tweak it a little, or not, and see what market share you can pull. Everything else is fair game right now. We’re a demand society. This is the “Consumers of Content&# generation. Make it just as good as… and release it.

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Social Media Microblogging Aggregator Blogger 159

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2007

But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. And head over to the nice, ad-free Here Comes the Guide site and plan your wedding in peace and privacy.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Google saga today, as the Financial Times reports that discussions have taken place between News Corp and Microsoft on an exclusive deal with Bing that would lead to News Corp blocking its news sites (such as The Wall Street Journal ) from Google. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites.

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