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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Getting a clear understanding of how your target audiences locate and interact with your content and engage with your brand will give you actionable data to use next year and beyond. Things that news and content sites should look at include: What terms and content types brought in the most search engine referral traffic? Best to you.

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We Interviewed 75 Top Social Media Marketers. Here’s What They’re Working On, Today

Buffer Social

More than 25% of social media managers said their #1 project was content creation. Other themes included: Increasing engagement. Only 6 out of 150 social media managers mentioned video among their biggest projects. Petra Diener , 3 Across The Sea – Getting a new account rolling and communicating. Scheduling content.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you ask me ‘do you do B2B marketing?’ As a localization expert involved in Social Media Marketing I often observe real culture clashes. I’m German and in Germany it’s push marketing, negativity and a certain lack of openness that get in the way of successful social media engagement.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging. Engagement. Engagement requires regular interaction between you and others. How many of you have made true friends from merely engaging in this space? “Look at this!

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. If your audience skews older, you may not want to engage in a lot of “make a video&# contests, since that segment indexes low on the “Creator&# scale. Volvo = Safety.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. Social Media: Who Can Show Us the Real Value? Share This or Else!

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