Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Have you ever wondered what people are REALLY saying about your brand ? While these are useful ways to gather marketing and demographic data , you still need to know what people are saying behind closed doors. In layman’s terms, MutualMind helps you make money by helping you guide the public perception of your brand.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Branding Outside The Box | Main September 17, 2010 Greenpeaces Unfriend Coal Campaign Calls Facebook A "So Coal" Network Greenpeace rolled out the  Unfriend Coal Campaign after Facebook chose coal to power its data center in Oregon.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About In the Media Building a People Centric Organization A Study on How Business Entities in India are Using Facebook September 7, 2010.5:43 If your brand has a website, you would definitely want to analyze its performance in terms of visitor traffic, its navigation patterns, where the visitors are coming from etc.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

45 pm Facebook will surge ahead in India Jump to Comments I was just reading an interesting news-story, published in today’s edition of Economic times. It compares Facebook & Orkut in India. The story which quotes data from Vizisense.com , predicts that inside 7 months Facebook should be able to overtake Orkut.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 3, 2010

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , There are certain web pages on Facebook, mainly the Facebook Email Opt Out web page, that are getting indexed by the search engines. and Microsoft’s Bing.com. In fact, Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Tweet Forrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users. The fact that the number of social networkers (read: Facebook) is almost as large as the number of blog readers and video watchers (59% to 68%) is the most striking finding in this research.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Firebelly

MARCH 17, 2010

51% of Facebook fans said they are more likely to purchase from at least a few brands they are fans of on Facebook. 60% said that being a Facebook fan of a brand would cause them to be more likely to recommend that brand to a friend. I will share that data in my next post. It pays to engage.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

All listening platforms collect data from numerous online sources — news sites, blogs, and other Web sites. But for true 360-degree brand tracking, you may require a vendor that also integrates offline sources such as the traditional press. Share this on Facebook. Which media sources are relevant to your goals? Tweet This!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 23, 2013

The news of layoffs at StumbleUpon reminded me that in compiling some year-end social media referral data I’d noticed that a number of sites had experienced declines in StumbleUpon traffic. For confidentially reasons I am not able to reveal the specific titles, but they are all well-known brands from major publishers.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But will it ever catch up with Facebook? That’s a much tougher road, because Facebook has done a great job of gaining adoption across a wide range of demographics. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk JVC Facebook Page Sweepstakes a Big Success. But Does it Violate Facebook Guidelines? But does it violate Facebook’s promotions guidelines? Which part of the Facebook guidelines JVC USA is violating was not specified. Apparently it does.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

All 20,000 of us must have created and shared a teraflop of data that night in about 4 hours. You can go on and on about other brands (Southwest Airlines comes to mind) that have a strong mission or a strong why. Share this on Facebook. Of course, I ended up doing the same! Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

That’s not an easy question to answer without having access to each site’s analytics data and knowing their goals and objectives. But it is possible to make some basic comparisons using data from some of the free tools that are available. Related posts: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

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. main profiles, personas, individual staff members, etc).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

Which prompted a question by Scott Zosel about how much should you allocate for Social Media in your budget – and so I created the Social Media Budget Ratio (SMBR) post back in 2008 which was good but it lacked historical data like I have now. Share this on Facebook. So here is my take …. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age. It’s a collection of observations and links to other observations.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 8, 2011

Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. I still get the old, "Twitter just sounds stupid to me," or "why would anybody want to post all of their personal information on Facebook ?" It's called Quora. albert sheu.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2011

Instead of just counting the number of Facebook “likes” you accrue – which signifies nothing more than digital bumper stickering, instead track how often your fans click “like” and comment upon the status updates you post. Klout is an online influence gauge that combines several data points (followers, retweets, clicks on links, etc.)

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. Listen Now. Why did it fail?

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Share this on Facebook. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on FriendFeed. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on LinkedIn. Share this on Mixx. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Saying It Social

MARCH 25, 2010

Next I log into my Google Analytics account to get the latest data for my clients. Basically this will render Google Analytics data useless. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit March 25, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | google analytics , google analytics opt out plugin , opt out plugin No comments yet. .&#

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Firebelly

AUGUST 18, 2010

Saturday, August 21 10:15 AM Facebook for Business Chad Richards Develop a strategy and establish success metrics for your business Facebook Page. You can find Firebelly speaking at the following sessions. We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

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Saying It Social

APRIL 21, 2010

The Like Button When you click the Like button, a link to that page is added to your Facebook profile and a story is shared with your friends. Social plugins are simple and secure ways for third parties to include Facebook’s Like button and comment functionality on their websites. What are Social Plugins?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 15, 2010

It supports a brand, and needs to integrated with other marketing and PR activities rather than treated as a separate island (just as, for example, a company’s search and display advertising should communicate a consistent message). The business value of blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, LinkedIn connections, etc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple! Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach. I predict you will see Facebook surpass Google by Valentines day 2010. Share this on Facebook.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 14, 2009

 What will you do with the data collected? Are you currently listening to what is being said about your firm, brand(s) and/or product(s)?  Below are there suggestions: 1. What is your overall marketing strategy?  What metrics are appropriate for your campaign and what do they tell you? How

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

This post will guide you to the right fields to optimize for the best possible search optimization of your social media profiles on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more! Use this data to fine-tune your website, and to make sure you’re reaching your target audience. What’s at stake in this blogging contest? Social Media.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 24, 2010

Conclusions It is important to note that everyone’s Google results are a bit different based on what data center they are hitting, when they do the search, the degree of personalization, etc. In fact even running the same queries 30 minutes later gave me different results in some cases than what is pictured above.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Gleanster takes a different approach by providing market research that they have gathered: and you can get the data for free. You agree that you can share the data but you won’t sell it (which is pretty standard and fair). I took a look at the Social Media Marketing research data. Well, almost. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 22, 2010

Is Advertising on Facebook Really Effective? By Mia Dand The popularity of advertising on social networks is primarily based on the notion that sites like Facebook have a great deal of data on their users and this information can be exploited to deliver highly targeted ads to its huge user base. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Kikolani

APRIL 11, 2012

To use Me On The Web, just log into your Google dashboard and click “Set up search alerts for your data” – it’s as easy as that! Social Mention monitors 100+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.” SocialMention. Related Posts.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 29, 2010

Data Shows That Social Behavior Gets More Followers By Dan Zarrella The linguistic analysis engine behind TweetPsych has given me a bunch of cool data points to analyze, so I’ve begun to look at various factors and their relationship with follower counts. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Unlike Facebook or Twitter, Pinterest serves as a platform for inspiration for users. The Potential of a “Buy” Button Pinterest is already a great vehicle for driving traffic to retailer (and brand) websites, and it lends itself to shopping more than any other social media network. What Can You Do Now?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. What is needed are powerful methods, and tools to track your brand in the social media paradigm. are having a major influence towards the online perception of your brand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly You can check show times, read mainstream media reviews, watch official trailers, and get data on individual movies as well as the movie industry in general.

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