Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 4, 2010

One of my clients, a very large sports drink company, has indirectly nudged me into taking a look at the state of what I drink, and ea, on a daily basis. The offshoot of this has been that I have been paying a lot of attention to the health and fitness social space. This site rocks. Sort of SOP for a lot of social fitness sites.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 11, 2011

It is a fallacy to suggest social networking is about networking, opines Jeff Hurt. Identity comes first, relationship building second, and networking with the community third. Social networking sites are social identity sites. 40 Days and 40 Nights Without Social Networking.

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SocialFish

MARCH 3, 2011

This post is the second in a two-part series where guest blogger Garry Polmateer , former association executive currently working at NimbleUser helping organizations with Salesforce, looks at two online brands through the lens of the concepts in our book, Open Community. Read Part 1 here. See [link] for a quick overview.

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Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 25, 2014

jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. Today, despite the fractured social media landscape, their community still has one central home on the web: the VMware Community site. See you next week!

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Ignite Social Media

MARCH 16, 2021

As one of the world’s top 5 most popular social networks, Twitter has long been an important platform for brands to include in their marketing plans. However, all that seems set to change, as the company has announced a series of changes to the platform that are worth keeping an eye on. Communities.

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The Realtime Report

AUGUST 29, 2012

Can social networks help with medical research? The world’s first genetics-based social network – as 23andMe labels itself – is looking to show they can. The company recruited people using social media, and at Parkinson’s research conferences.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 20, 2013

This article for me is part sharing what I know about digital marketing tools and part love letter to three companies that really deserve your business. Its no secret that my favorite web company right now is Wistia. Need video embeds that work for responsive web sites? Part of the reason for this is obviously their product.

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Laurel Papworth

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. Probably because companies are getting past the “why should we care?&# for every 1,000 views; social sites dragged down the average online CPM by as much as 18% over the last year. and into “how do we get some dosh?&#

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SocMed Sean

MAY 30, 2018

Today’s guest post comes from Eric Czerwonka , an entrepreneur and co-founder of Buddy Punch , a software company founded in 2013 that provides time tracking solutions for startups, companies with employees, as well as anyone with a remote team to manage. Prospective Employees, both active and passive, are as well.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

The following is for those who want to be found on social networks, or for the networks on which they want to be found. Social Media Dataflow. Why You Want to Be Found on Social Networks. Think of your profile and activity on social networks as creating brand recognition. Name Branding.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Among them is Bluesky , which is a decentralized, invite-only social network built on an open-source protocol  (I’ll explain what this means even though I barely understand it myself). Bluesky is a decentralized social network created by Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter CEO who started it while still in the role.

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Buffer Social

MAY 12, 2016

Instagram changed its logo on Wednesday, and as with almost any significant change to a popular social network, the internet was split. The Facebook-owned company moved on from its old-fashioned camera icon and embraced a new, minimalist design across its suite of products: Instagram, Layout, Boomerang, and Hyperlapse.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 17, 2011

A media company. We’ve talked about social media so much that I think you know how I feel about that. But what does it mean to be a media company? These include forums, blogs, community websites where industry news can be published, wikis, etc. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. For this study we profiled 66 companies from ’9′ verticals and analysed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no. anyways, great job Daksh.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Reddit isn’t often mentioned alongside the “big” social networks, though it’s one of the most influential. That growth, combined with 40% of Gen Z searching social platforms for info instead of Google, makes Reddit a unique opportunity for brands. But Reddit isn’t the best place for every company. What is Reddit?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Trend” can often feel like a four-letter word when it comes to social media, but it is critical that we keep an eye on the future. In 2019 we saw several social platforms grow and continue to mature – from industry giants like Facebook and Instagram to emerging platform TikTok and more niche sites like Pinterest.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 14, 2011

Tweet Written by Nabanita Roy , who is a web enthusiast and blogger currently working as a Community Development Executive at forums.com. In my previous post, I have given an overview of the changing trends in social media. Take a look: Social networking: Connect, Share, Engage. Communication outshines campaining.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Along with David Sullivan , a Strategic Business Development Representative for Sprout Social, we reached out to our friends at Chili Piper to help us break down the art of social selling from the brand account. We’ll also explore 10 tips and tactics you can use to execute social selling like an expert. What is social selling?

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Dave Fleet

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In essence, Richard argues that while Hillary Clinton took a top-down, hierarchical approach to communication (via the mainstream media), Trump’s use of social media enabled him to go direct to his base and to communicate without the filter of the media. Here are a few thoughts from my perspective. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. It displays the news that is most popular in Reuters social network. The Klout 50 ranks the most social CEOs in the USA by influence.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 8, 2010

If you use a Fan Box widget off of our site to promote your Page, others will be able to copy and place the widget elsewhere. One of the reasons I moved off Blogger (Google hosting) onto my own ISP hosted site, by the way, was for that very reason. Fanpage vs community vs brand vs groups. The new Fan page is Community page.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Nowhere in the definition above does it mention the words website , wiki, blog, or social network. How does your CoP stack up to some of these statements?

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 8, 2010

Online Marketing & Social Networking Guru. Build our Social Networks. Contribute to the success of this growing company and work within a friendly and customer focused team. High-level experience with Facebook, Twitter and other social networking media. Monitor competitor sites.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

I did a website analysis and custom demonstration for a local IT recruiting company recently. This is a very successful company. They’ve adapted to using online social networks (namely LinkedIn) to identify passive candidates in the last few years and it’s serving them well. They’re not much different.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 8, 2012

There’s a lot of confusion about social media these days, and marketing professionals aren’t making it any easier. As a result, agencies and marketing professionals are being asked more frequently by executives how they can “use social” or get social” by engaging in the social space.

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Dave Fleet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Tweet How many times have you read something like this in a digital communications plan? As social networks become more and more prevalent, we’re at the point now that almost every client brief appears to point, on its surface, to one of a few key networks. What are the norms within the different social networks?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Arnie Kuenn is the president of Vertical Measures, a search, social & content marketing company . Moving Your Business Forward Through the Convergence of Search, Social & Content Marketing. An ideal connection between social media and search might just be “Answer” sites. The way Yahoo!

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 19, 2010

I’m heading over to New Zealand from 12th to 15th May 2010 to participate in social media forum at the Australian Institute of Company Directors Annual Conference. 10.00am – 12.00pm FORUM B: The Commercial Benefits of Today’s Social Networking Platforms. Sydney Social Media Courses (0).

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2020

With billions of visits per month and 430+ million active users , the platform represents one of the most engaged communities online. Not to mention that content originating from Reddit tends to score huge numbers on social media. If you approach Reddit like the rest of your social presence, you’re going to be disappointed.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

47 am The other side of Social Networking Jump to Comments Social networking is making a deep(er) penetration in our lives,(our? Consultants are enjoying the social-media revolution. However, a couple of bitter events, connected with Facebook and Orkut, the biggest community sites question the growth of social n/w.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 26, 2011

Etsy is a funky boutique of an online community, an independent online marketplace for handmade products and vintage goods where hand made jewellry, with tailor made skirts and vintage jackets live side by side with chocolates and photography. The company is generating over $1 million/month in revenue, Kalin told me. 127 countries.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 26, 2011

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative criticism in social networks, but assessing the situation and the potential positive vs negative outcomes of responses is a skill that comes from experience.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Movember and Social Media.

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Laurel Papworth

MAY 8, 2010

The photo sharing social network Radar.net is shutting down and, thankfully, they have all undertaken all the key steps to do that sensitively and graciously. The steps to follow to shut down a social media site without losing all that brand love you have worked so hard to gain are these: A warm look at history of the online community.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 31, 2024

Off-platform activity such as traffic from search engines or social networks can help you here, too. A SaaS company or niche channel will likely have a lower ceiling of potential viewership. Prioritize platform and community engagement Marketers love to debate YouTube’s status as a social network.

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