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Balancing social resources across multiple business lines

Sprout Social

The company has business lines including student loan servicing, private student loans, improving K-12 school management through service and technology, renewable energy, encouraging a more educated workforce, and telecommunications. For example, some are more focused on organic growth, while others are more invested in paid campaigns.”

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12 CEOs You Should Be Following on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

Admittedly, Danielle Morrill isn’t technically a current CEO –– right now, she’s CTO and co-founder of FirstParty , which does marketing automation for developers. Particularly on Twitter and to a lesser extent on LinkedIn, Morrill speaks at length about the challenges of securing venture capital funding to bring a new tech product to market.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan. It’s not the magic pill.

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Horizontal Marketing

Twist Image

Warning: this going to sound self-serving: Marketing has to stop being a vertical within the business and must become horizontal across all business lines. We still do (think about banks, cable companies, airlines, telecommunications and a few others). It's not a campaign, it's who you are. horizontal marketing.

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How More Calls and Conversations Will Provide You with Strategic Business Intelligence

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But, it is surprising the number of businesses we talk to that don’t have a solid plan in place to track leads and response rates so they can accurately tie results back to a specific campaign and budget, and therefore justify the money they spend. Together, the ads and the response tool establish a strong image in your market segment.

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What is hashtagging and how to use it effectively

Sprout Social

That’s the question frustrating social media marketers today. Hashtags are an essential asset in your digital marketing toolbox. Unfortunately, the confusion surrounding hashtags prevents some marketers from using them to their full potential. To hashtag or not to hashtag? The short answer: Yes, definitely use hashtags.

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5 stats brands need to know to engage Irish & UK consumers

Sprout Social

For Ireland and UK-based marketers trying to engage with their target audience, an effective social strategy calls for putting customer preferences at the center of their social strategy. To encourage engagement, marketers should consider creating posts and media that inspire an emotional response out of their audience.