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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

What about forums? Discussion forums. Microblogging platforms. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. How brands can use social networking sites: Post, share and respond to audience content.

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Trust is hard to come by these days

Buzz Marketing for Technology

So what does this mean for marketers and for major brands in an era of social media? Effectively they are now the only ones that the general public will trust to speak about your brand. After last year I figured this years report could make an excellent gauge of the economy worldwide! Well 2 things ….

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Why Your Marketing Needs Real-Time Data

Buzz Marketing for Technology

However, if there is one thing that is becoming painfully clear to me is the need to be relevant to your audience – whether you are advertising to them, being social with them, or just creating the right kind of conversations about your brand. We often throw this idea around as marketers – “being relevant”, but few people discuss how!

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Any Publicity is Good Publicity in Social Media, right?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Now the same could be said about social media – any mention of your brand is good in social media but that’s not entirely correct! Let me explain ….

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Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums.

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Social Media and the Contact Center for Dummies (Wiley)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums.

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

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Results can be exported to Excel for further sorting and analysis. Social Mention. Budget: Under $500 per month.

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