The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

43 pm 3 Ways to Analyze Facebook Fan Page Traffic Jump to Comments NOTE : I had recently scribbled my thoughts on Facebook Insights for India’s growing B2B marketing community www.paulwriter.com. The solution has been created by a London based web-development company for further inputs you can read their detailed blog-post.

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The Marketing Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Home About In the Media Search Engine Statistics:: Google’s share dips Facebook & India April 13, 2010.6:21 Subscribe to Blog Updates Feedburners Stats Email Subscription My Company About Hi, I am Daksh author of themarketingblog & co-founder of Iffort, a web-strategy & digital marketing consulting firm.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Slideshow Statistics. We always know more than we can tell and we will always tell more than we can write down David Snowden Complex Acts of Knowing - Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness [link] Slide 47: Case Study: US Intel Community Intellipedia [link] Slide 48: Whatâ??s Slideshare.net (beta). My Slidespace. Most Viewed. |.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Really great to see an Indian company using my favorite platform As far as the blog is concerned I’d personally love to see more stories behind the development of these two fantastic products ‘Bikers’ and ‘NEONDISC’ The Flickr stream has the entire collection of Eyegear and Watches. Fastrack.in

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 28, 2007

29 year old Matthias, Jimdo’s co-founders talks about its philosophy : When we were looking for a name of our company it was really important to us that all domains were still available, that the name would work internationally, that it’s short easy to remember, that the name would work internationally. Way to go Jimdo.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Jump to Comments Imagine the cabbies playing the dual role of a ‘driver’ and a ‘product-marketer’ Recently, I had read in a blog-post that the company that sells ads on the outside of cars in London would now secretly pay money to the car drivers for product marketing. 44 am Cab Drivers as Word-of-Mouth Marketers?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr). But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. So, I peeked at YouTube.

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The Marketing Blog

JANUARY 5, 2009

Home About In the Media After Hiatus, Social Media Predictions & 2009 Indian startups need more Community Managers January 5, 2009.11:43 Social Media Research There is a real dearth of numbers, statistics and trends on Social-media. I hope that this year brings great success and joy to all of us.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Think about the areas where you want to lead the industry and the topics that you want people to think about when they think of your company. Use your blog to become a thought leader in the industry by sharing your expertise on those broad topics that are important and relevant to your company. A blog can be used for so much more.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Think about the areas where you want to lead the industry and the topics that you want people to think about when they think of your company. Use your blog to become a thought leader in the industry by sharing your expertise on those broad topics that are important and relevant to your company. A blog can be used for so much more.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 14, 2012

Habari is a secure blogging platform designed from the ground up with the current and future needs of the blogging community firmly in mind. support for a wide variety of media, including Viddler and Flickr. custom RSS feeds and statistics. traffic and statistics management. Let’s begin. modern theme support. ad servers.

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Reply Niyaz PK November 21, 2007 at 7:35 am That is surprising statistics. Subscribe to Blog Updates Feedburners Stats Email Subscription My Company About Hi, I am Daksh author of themarketingblog & co-founder of Iffort, a web-strategy & digital marketing consulting firm. I will try to do that. Keep it up.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Is that due to the natural progression of success (all big companies are eventually vilified) or a fundamental shift in Apple's brand promise as ultra hip and very convenient? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. Samir Balwani): Samir talks about the pros and cons of Tweeting by company representatives, from the CEO to a brand.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. What do you think?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0 That's all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

For a big company account, it’s difficult to actually engage all day long (and all week long, especially if you’re a 9-5 shop). You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. You’re greeted with some general statistics about your follower-to-following ratio. Age of account.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

9 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Location Based Services by Social Media B2B. He lists nine steps its imperative for companies to take in order to “build enough social karma (yes, I said karma) to facilitate things like guest posting opportunities, retweets, likes, etc.&#. Social Media Strategy and Best Practices.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) I think that is more powerful than targeting by city, state or region.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 5, 2013

of all marketers love blog posts about marketing statistics. Okay, that statistic was made up (though probably not far off the mark), but the social media and digital marketing facts and statistics below are real (or at least from generally reliable sources). Rapidly growing companies? Social Media Facts and Statistics.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

5 Ways for B2B Companies to Engage on Facebook by Social Media B2B. Paul Dunay provides three brilliant tips for b2b marketers to optimize their use of Facebook advertising, such as “Put the 20 top companies you want to target into the Workplaces field. Facebook Statistics. 10 Facebook Tabs to Add by ReadWriteWeb.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’m a social media strategist that blogs about social media and online communities so I find it frustrating when I am sent a PDF attachment on an email with a traditional media press release using agency created content, professional film crews employed to do the traditional campaign filming and ditto with professional musicians.

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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? On Flickr, maybe a 100 meg of uploads is fair, more is not. View count and referrer statistics. advertising?

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If you’re a business, you may have the luxury of hiring an awesome Internet Marketing Company to keep up with the trends, but as individuals managing a blog for as a hobby or for profit, it’s up to you to not only maintain that blog but keep up with ways to increase traffic. Photo Credit: Alexander Henning Drachmann on Flickr.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Flickr Creative Commons Search This is my go-to source for photos for the blog and presentations. Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. If you’re serious about Twitter, this is a great app.

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Kikolani

JUNE 4, 2010

27 recent photographs from le Flickr pool – an interesting collection of photos. 52 questions to ask when hiring a social media company – great way to find out if who you are hiring knows what they are talking about. Marc Duquette of Scribnia, the blogging community. Fence Philadelphia, a Philadelphia fence company.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

Ultimately, this will make for stronger companies. Social media just makes it easier for companies to do the listening, learning & recognizing issues that might be out there that never really arose in the office when the product or service was created. Too bad to see that a company that already understood the issue ignores it now.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post. The difference is that it’s virtual. Look at Shana’s chart.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Image: Kurtis Garbutt via Flickr, Creative Commons Kim, who runs the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), asked what I thought was a valid question on her blog: where is all the purple? All statistics from the American Cancer Society. In the non-profit/cause marketing world, most notably pink, and thus breast cancer.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

CommerceTools uses cloud-based technology to help companies streamline the distribution of products, supplies, services and content to individuals or groups by simplifying and automating order and fulfillment processes. The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics by Fast Company. ALOT. ** 5 STARS.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Meanwhile, I’ve been working on building out a social media strategic plan for a really interesting company. People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers. Broadcasting works better as a billboard.

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The Marketing Blog

MAY 1, 2008

Its a first for the Indian companies and definitely an example for others to follow. It would be too early to lookat the comparison statistics between the two different forms of media. The release has had a big time viral effect and is being reciprocated across multiple places. Catch the video below (courtesy this) [.]

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