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Five Reasons Why You Absolutely, Positively Need to do Online Brand Monitoring

Webbiquity SMM

And you’d certainly never talk about your brand or product at a business conference or networking event…while wearing noise-cancelling headphones. Why then do so many brands fail to do basic brand monitoring on social networks, and across the Internet more generally? ” Further: “As a follow-on experiment, 22 brand monitoring software tools were reviewed in a separate post, which was tweeted out multiple times.

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YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week | Main | 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week » July 27, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer The Social Network , aka "The Facebook Movie," hits theaters October 1st. The film is about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and how the popular social networking site got its start.

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Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes | Main | What the F**k is Social Media NOW? » July 13, 2010 Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site "We're not saying that  Facebook and Myspace got their idea from us, but we're not saying they didn't either." Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Jake's Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media? Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence. But did you know there’s a social network dedicated to people who like totravel to different baseball parks? Each could do wonders for any brand.

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Social Networking Meets Game Consoles

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. Social networking… Welcome to the new and highly integrated gaming world.

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

It used to be this would return a list of scholarly papers, some nasty pictures of you at a bachelor party, a random smattering of form posts about cupcakes or software and possibly your connections on some social networks. A potential employer can use a variety of tools to see how well you manage your personal brand online. After all, if you can’t make your own brand stand out how are you going to help them with theirs?

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Best Twitter Tips, Tools and Tactics of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more. The Right Way to Build Brand(s) via Twitter by iMedia Connection. Twitter: Marketers Still Struggling To Understand Social Channel by MediaPost Online Media Daily.

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New Social Media Advertising Strategies for 2023

Webbiquity SMM

Social media advertising requires marketing professionals to proactively respond to continually evolving user habits and adapt to different trends. The velocity of change across social networks shows no signs of slowing, prompting advertisers to brace themselves for what lies ahead in 2023.

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How B2B Tech Marketing on Twitter is Changing (Research)

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter and LinkedIn remain the top two social networks for B2B marketers. Further, “80% of leads sourced through social media for B2B marketers come from LinkedIn…(and) LinkedIn drives more traffic to B2B blogs and websites than Facebook and Twitter combined.” Half of B2B software companies struggle with the “social” media concept. A ratio of up to 5 is generally viewed as fairly social. But the least social of this entire group?

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Twitter for Business: Is It Time?

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter is generally viewed as the second-best social network for B2B marketing , behind only LinkedIn. Most providers of brand monitoring tools don’t even bother monitoring their own brand mentions on Twitter. Twitter is in trouble.

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How to Manage a Social Media Crisis

Webbiquity SMM

A social media crisis is like a wildfire: one mistake can quickly get out of control. When your business commits a critical error on social media, you risk losing not just followers, but also current and prospective future customers. Create a social media policy.

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29 Best Social Listening Tools To Stay Ahead Of Competition

Keyhole.co

There are tons of social listening tools out there and it’s hard to choose the one that’s right for your company. If you’re looking for a social media listening tool in particular—one that can track what people are saying about your brand—then you’ve come to the right place.

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5 Fun Twitter Quizzes

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays Fun Online Finds | Main | Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site » July 09, 2010 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes Its Friday and todays fun finds are 5 Twitter quizzes that are sure to entertain you, enlighten you, and help you unwind after a busy work week. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media?

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media Weekly: 5 Stories You Need to Read | Main | Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas » June 22, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media? A great video that in 2 minutes shares 10 key reasons why brands should be aware of social media. I particularly enjoy the "Social Media Playtime Is Now Officially Over" message at the end.

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How to Effectively Manage Your Online Reputation

Razor Social

People are talking about you and your brand online. This one is a no brainer – you have to monitor what people are saying about your company and your products or services. Luckily, there are tools out there that you can use to make sure you never miss a mention of your brand or product name. The key to effective online reputation management is acknowledging the mentions of your brand so you can minimize the negative comments and amplify the positive ones. Social Medi

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Three Things Twitter’s Marketing Team Needs to Do

Webbiquity SMM

Though it’s still one of the top three social networks for B2B marketers, Twitter is struggling. ” functionality; it’s ridiculous the platform still doesn’t display similar accounts if you mis-type a URL by one character) and three ways Twitter fans can help keep the social network vibrant. Now here are three ideas the social network’s CMO and her marketing team may want to contemplate.

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5 Helpful Social Search Articles

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits | Main | Flickr Friday: The Content Grid » September 03, 2010 5 Helpful Social Search Articles More and more consumers are either bypassing traditional search engines and seeking information from their networks on social sites OR theyre going to the traditional search engines and then consuming content from social sites in the search results.

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#SproutChat Recap: Listening vs. Monitoring on Social Media

Sprout Social

Sprout’s Smart Inbox is a great at ensuring you never miss a mention, important hashtag or branded keyword. As these inbound messages are coming in, is your brand monitoring or actually listening to the needs and requests of your customers? Monitoring focusing on observing and tracking patterns while listening entails insights from pervious conversations. Listening on Social Media Is Different Than Monitoring. Monitoring.

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Top 7 Agorapulse Alternatives For 2023 

Keyhole.co

Social media management has several moving parts: creating content, publishing it, monitoring the performance, creating performance reports and analyzing them, and much more. 7 Agorapulse alternative social media management tools .

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The 7 Best Hootsuite Alternatives for 2022

Oktopost

Social media management platforms are now an essential part of any business’ digital marketing toolkit. Without these tools, marketers would have to scramble trying to maintain all their social media profiles individually. Pure social listening needs. $ Social Automation.

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12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials 12 Reasons Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Program YESTERDAY 1. Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Are you using social media to grow your business?

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The Top 25 Social Media Analytics Tools [Updated for 2021]

Keyhole.co

You guessed it: 2020 accelerated the role that social media has in purchasing decisions. The latest studies show that social media is the first touchpoint customers have with your brand. But social media is a data beast! Social Studio 14. Sprout Social 15.

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Three Things Twitter Needs to Thrive

Webbiquity SMM

Though Twitter is still the third-most popular social media platform according to eBizMBA , speculation about the company’s struggles abounds. First, it occupies a unique position among the leading social networks: Facebook is for family and friends, LinkedIn is for work, and Twitter is for news. Even Twitter’s handling of hashtags—a core element in topic research and monitoring—is sketchy.

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BP Facebook Sentiment

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: Im A Social Media Guru! Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. Main | Jakes Take: Comcast Cares & You Can Too » May 27, 2010 BP Facebook Sentiment I spent some time evaluating sentiment towards BP on Facebook based on the number of 'pro' and 'con' pages.

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Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Jakes Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0 | Main | YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer » July 23, 2010 Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week Below are our top 5 social media stories from this week that we wouldnt want you to miss (besides Facebook hitting 500 users ): Three Social Marketing Mistakes That Could Tank Your Campaign What makes a social marketing campaign fail?

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A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other great Social Media Resources Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other great Social Media resources. eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy.

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United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media.

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral! Main | Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items » June 10, 2010 United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media Efforts We want to congratulate United Way of Central Indiana  who was recognized for their social marketing efforts in the special Corporate Citizenship insert of the Indianapolis Business Journal this week. 

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YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral!

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter | Main | United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media Efforts » June 08, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral! Brian, the " social media guru " is back. Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site | Main | How One Unhappy Customer Multiplies Across Social Media » July 16, 2010 What the F**k is Social Media NOW? Fridays fun find is an excellent presentation on Slideshare called What the F**k is Social Media NOW? Its a sequel to the original What the F**k is Social Media? What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

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Happy Social Media Day - June 30th

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Are We Addicted To Social Media? Main | Jakes Take: TV On The Internet » June 30, 2010 Happy Social Media Day - June 30th Today is the first-ever Social Media Day , an unofficial holiday created by Mashable to "celebrate the revolution of media becoming social." Below is a message from Pete Cashmore, Mashable s founder, explaining reasons for and goals behind Social Media Day.

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5 Helpful Social Media Must Reads

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Firebelly VP Co-Authors Corporate Blogging for Dummies (Out Now!) | Main | Firebelly at Blog Indiana » August 13, 2010 5 Helpful Social Media Must Reads Tweet 1. the Tweet Button is designed to be the most comprehensive counter of retweets and shares across Twitter’s network. Is A Social Crash Coming? By Chris Brogan Social networks push human interaction to the utmost limits.

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 2 – Social Media

Josh S Peters

Social media can be the perfect catalyst for telling your brand’s story and activating new customers or it can be a huge waste of time, money and resources if it’s mismanaged. Taking a look at the pyramid above we can see what social media is the best at and what should be the base for your social media activities. When it comes to the convergence of search and social the layer that is currently the most heavily involved is the base layer.

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21 best social media analytics tools

Unmetric

It’s pretty evident that social media isn’t anymore just a medium for communication and funny cat videos. The network is crowded with brand advertisements, contests, free giveaways and much more that vie for consumers attention. We all know how big of a role social media plays for business and that managing multiple social accounts on different social media networks can be time-consuming. Salesforce Social Studio. Zoho Social.

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3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer | Main | Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare » July 30, 2010 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week Below are the top 3 stories that rocked the social media world this week. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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5 Ways to Fan the Viral Flame

Firebelly

Categories Adam Small adam Yale Alyson Ahrns Analytics Ari Herzog Beth Harte Blog Blog Development Blog Indiana Blogging Branding Brochure Buzz Camper Van Beethoven CD Chris Brogan CMS Content Convergence conversations Cracker Craig Donato Dana Todd David Evans David Hoppe David Lowery Death of the Brochure Design Digital Agency Digital Dirt Duncan Alney Elf Yourself email Emanuel Rosen Facebook Firebelly Marketing French Maids G.P.

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Top Emplifi Alternatives For Marketers And Social Media Agencies

Keyhole.co

It is a no-brainer that any modern marketing agency or a marketer, for that matter, needs an arsenal of tools under their belt to create, publish, monitor, and analyze their content. But how do you choose the best social media analytics tools when there are far too many available currently?

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Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles | Main | 5 Helpful Social Search Articles » September 02, 2010 Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits Brainstorming and Social Media Optimization Summits run simultaneously in Dallas, TX from September 15-17.

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Flickr Friday: The Content Grid

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Helpful Social Search Articles | Main | Twitter announces #NewTwitter » September 10, 2010 Flickr Friday: The Content Grid A content marketing framework that plots type and channel across two dimensions: who should create it (a single owner or the entire staff) and how it should be distributed for maximum impact on the sales funnel.

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5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places | Main | Firebelly at Brainstorming & Social Media Optimization Summits » August 27, 2010 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles Facebook Places has been out just a little over a week now. As with those services, Facebook Places allows users to share their location and discover new hot spots by following the stops of people in their network.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. You can find a list of more than 150 social media monitoring tools here or close to 200 here , but—that can seem overwhelming. Social Mention. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it.

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Ball Memorial Hospital's Facebook Nightmare

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week | Main | Fridays 5 Fun Social Media Finds » August 03, 2010 Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare Recently, a transgendered person was allegedly mistreated and refused service by staff at Ball Memorial Hospital, a Clarian Health Partner, in Muncie, Indiana. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Friday's 5 Fun Social Media Finds

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare | Main | Firebelly VP Co-Authors Corporate Blogging for Dummies (Out Now!) » August 06, 2010 Fridays 5 Fun Social Media Finds The Internet is an amazing place. Here are 5 fun social media finds from this week that are sure to entertain and educate you over the weekend. WHAT THE F*CK IS MY SOCIAL MEDIA "STRATEGY"? A funny social media strategy generator.

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Firebelly VP Co-Authors Corporate Blogging for Dummies (Out Now!)

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays 5 Fun Social Media Finds | Main | 5 Helpful Social Media Must Reads » August 11, 2010 Firebelly VP Co-Authors Corporate Blogging for Dummies (Out Now!) Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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