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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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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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Internet Marketing Basics: Understanding Our Search Engine Overlords

Josh S Peters

Search engines are one of the internet marketers best friends, yet they are sometimes ignored (crazy I know) or more often misunderstood. Defining Search Marketing Total world wide searches per month: 61 Billion Google = 37 B Yahoo = 8.5 Telecommunications Sorry but I don't really agree with you. B Baidu = 3.2 B AOL = 1.2

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How to Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network

Hootsuite

That’s when the web marketing specialist walked into Twitter’s offices with an idea. This can lead to greater engagement, boosting your brand’s social media engagement through likes, shares, comments, and new followers. Hashtags can also be added in a comment when you Retweet, in replies and in your Twitter bio.

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! Anyway, on to the list! List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

I guess their intention is to “corner the market” and cover just about every possible scenario that they could possibly put into the application. I have literally copied the G&S description in Microsoft Word to check the word count, and it is 32 pages long and 16,728 words total. Just think.

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themarketingblog@wordpress on Mobile

The Marketing Blog

Marketing, Social Media & Branding Blogs in India July 14, 2008.8:16 16 am themarketingblog@wordpress on Mobile Jump to Comments There was a time when mobile version of a website used to be a rarity. Home About In the Media YoMacha: India’s Hot or Not ? it looks as if it is a rip-off from hotornot. Theme: Pressrow.

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