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Collaboration supports successful campaigns

Akamai Marketing

Because social media is new (Twitter is only 5 years old!), The awesome thing for me about having this diverse group of people around me is that they each bring a different insight to a challenge or a campaign. Creative Commons by PSD. Raising a successful social media campaign takes more than one person.

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Does it matter who follows you on Twitter or Facebook?

Akamai Marketing

Photo by Ken Lund, Creative Commons. One of my favorite campaigns using this theory is the Edge Aftershave “No Irritation&# campaign. Talk about making Twitter Karma work for you! Interesting question, isn’t it? I’m not a believer in checking my followers to see what they can do for me.

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It’s As If Those Parkland Kids Learned from a Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

Besides my facilitator’s fresh-faced, late-night gratitude video, there’s something else she did that made the campaign a success and a highlight in my “things I did on social media that made a difference” reel. I made a video in support of our campaign. Image: Elliot Sloman via Unsplash, Creative Commons CC0.

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Snapping at Synapses: Why Digital Death Sucks

Waxing UnLyrical

Making the grade I have no doubt that, from a financial point of view, the campaign will reach its goal. But there are so many things that trouble me about this entire campaign. And when I looked at some of the comments on reports of the campaign, that seemed to be a frequently-expressed sentiment, like this one on PopWatch: Hmm.

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10 Words And Phrases Social Media Pros Should Help Their Clients Understand

SocMed Sean

It’s not something you strive for in a social media campaign. The word “viral” should be replaced in all conversations with the word “valuable” I know it sounds funny, but wouldn’t you rather have your content “go valuable on Twitter?” It’s something you talk to your doctor about.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

Waxing UnLyrical

Put these two things together in a lead nurturing email campaign, add super valuable and helpful information and watch your open and click-through rates go up. Unless you have a very well-known, established brand with a large following, don’t bother using hashtags on Twitter or Instagram that are specific to your brand. Use keywords.

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#measurePR Recap (June 2018): Lessons from Millennials and Generation X

Waxing UnLyrical

They let me take hold and run with social media, campaigns and the like where I learned early the value of measuring and evaluating #measurePR. My entire education was here on Twitter from people like @shonali, @ginidietrich, @mikeschaffer, and more #measurepr #measurepr. Twitter and the community that took me under its wing.

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