Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 10, 2011

Crowdsourcing is a relatively new term. So now that you know what it is, can you use crowdsourcing for your small business? There are some dangers to crowdsourcing, however. The Web, however, has introduced some new technologies and services to help make crowdsourcing a more palatable process. I don’t see why not.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In the design space, crowdsourcing is being embraced as an efficient way to tap into the mindset of the customer and mine ideas directly from target audiences. Landing pages are ripe for optimization through crowdsourcing. By crowdsourcing feedback on your landing page design, you’re provided the benefit of fresh eyes.

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Mindjumpers

MAY 3, 2011

Tweet Facebook has published a Best Practice Guide for how to use their platform for marketing. The guide provides a great overview of the marketing potential in having a presence on Facebook as well as suggestions for some strategic steps to go through when building a presence. The Facebook Ecosystem. Engage your fans.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 14, 2013

To commemorate both milestones, the company hosted a 24-hour long community celebration on its @Nike account. So, what can companies looking to celebrate their community on Instagram learn from Nike’s approach? Milestone’s aren’t about you – they’re about your community. It will give your community something to rally around.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 13, 2013

In a galaxy not so far away, a popular snack food brand, Pringles, has joined forces with the iconic movie franchise, Star Wars, to launch a crowdsourced video contest. The contest is hosted on Tongal , a platform that facilitates creative and video content for brands through crowdsourcing.

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Laurel Papworth

MAY 14, 2010

And there are a lot of innovation crowdsourced communities online. So I got to thinking: what if we crowdsourced a solution? And my second question was… would BP listen to a crowdsourced solution? Crowdsourced innovation social networks. So I had a look on crowdsourced business websites. Schweeeeeet.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 29, 2020

And while some resolve to work out more or eat more healthily, marketers are setting goals to grow their careers and elevate their strategies. On the list of marketers’ resolutions? In an industry known for rapid change, it’s critical for marketers to stay on top of their skill sets and expand their knowledge base.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

One of Clinton Bonner’s biggest priorities is helping the market understand what is achievable through crowdsourcing. Topcoder is a community of designers, developers, and data scientists who specialize in design and technology. This community develops enterprise-level work for some of the biggest companies in the world.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

The 1-9-90 theory that says out of every hundred people who join a community or network – 1% actively contribute – 9% contribute from time to time – and 90% are lurkers. Related posts: Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing.

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Sprout Social

MAY 26, 2020

With 2 billion unique users watching 1 billion hours of video every day, YouTube offers an excellent platform to market your business. Add that to the compelling nature of video in marketing and you have a winning combination. Marketing on YouTube is mainly about creating content to reach and engage a target audience.

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Twist Image

AUGUST 10, 2012

The Harvard Business Review had a blog post today titled, Marketing Is Dead , written by Bill Lee. This is what the article says: "Traditional marketing - including advertising, public relations, branding and corporate communications - is dead. In short marketing isn't dead. Marketing is everything.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

YouTube marketing is often overlooked by social media marketers. Either way, there are countless marketing opportunities on YouTube—especially if your audience is on the platform and your competitors aren’t. But with more than 500 hours of video uploaded every minute, effective YouTube marketing is easier said than done.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Booktok , for example, has become a flourishing online community. And connecting with your audience goes further than making sales—it builds community, which can save you advertising bucks in the future. Enables instant communication. Ability to crowdsource. Social media is an always-on focus group.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 17, 2011

or, The Horror CrowdSourcing and Social Media has Unleashed on Madison Avenue. This isn’t just about lost revenue and respective trickle down, this is also about the departure of mass media and the arrival of social media and crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing also eliminates the middle man, the ad agency. Mind blowing.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Despite its meteoric rise in popularity, YouTube’s influence has slipped under many marketers’ radar. While 51% of consumers are turning their attention to YouTube in 2022, only 35% of marketers are investing in the platform. Cultivating community is crucial for your channel’s long-term growth. Serve as community moderators.

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Likeable

JULY 23, 2020

Photography app VSCO kicked off #BlackJoyMatters with a global call to action, urging online communities to create, capture, and share their interpretations of Black Joy to social media through posting art, first-person videos, and/or photos across every social platform using the hashtag #BlackJoyMatters. Pernod Ricard: Crowdsourcing App.

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Pixlee

JULY 29, 2020

Fitness brands have the opportunity to drive new connections and become the ultimate thought leaders in the fitness space with their communities right now. While many are still not able to go to a gym and are staying safe at home, fitness brands have to shift the focus of messaging in their marketing campaigns. Social Media Challenges.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Posted in Crowdsourcing Gaming Innovation. and creator of Innovation Games ® and Knowsy ® to discuss how serious games are changing Sales and Marketing teams at major brands. When I play a serious game, I’m trying to solve some kind of a business problem like managing a complex sale or developing a product-marketing plan.

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Writtent Blog

MAY 31, 2013

This week’s content marketing strategy guide from the most popular blogs concentrates on advanced content techniques. There are some secrets on how to produce even more than your content marketing strategy requires. 4 Ideas for Crowdsourcing Content Creation and Promotion. 5 Ways to Reach Your Target Market Online.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

He’s also founder of Exploring Social Media , a social media marketing program for beginners to teach them how to best understand and make sense of this online phenomenon for marketing. Samir Balwani is a marketing strategist and Director of Member Acquisition for StyleCaster. Samir Balwani. Adam Singer. Kristi Hines.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Debbie Gioquindo and Keryl Pesce , co-founders of Happy B h Wines , join the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the powerful story behind their brand’s origins, the crowdsourcing approach that helped their business bloom, and some wacky giveaways that have earned them some well-deserved attention. Partnering Up.

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Mindjumpers

MARCH 25, 2011

Tweet Yesterday Facebook has launched Facebook Questions, which allows users and pages to post a Question to friends or a Facebook community. Questions will be a useful feature for business that run a page as part of creating involvement for users in the community. How it works.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In watching the video, it isn’t immediately apparent that the video was crowdsourced from 27 fans on Twitter. Marketers always talk about building passionate communities and brand advocates. Anytime you crowdsource content or stories from fans, clearly disclose how the submissions will be used.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 23, 2010

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” ) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it and the consumers contributing to it. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.

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Hootsuite

JULY 6, 2022

Within those billions of users, Instagram fosters niche communities. Shared common interests bring these smaller communities together. And to crowdsource sentiment on your brand. People feel much more connected to a brand that actively engages their community. foster relationships with your community.

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Social Media Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2011

They decided they'd like to highlight my site as part of their ongoing work - where they create a number of logos for sites and then let the community decide which they prefer. This is a great example of a way a business is doing crowdsourcing in an intelligent way. And today, they're running two logos over on their website.

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Pixlee

APRIL 27, 2020

Digital events have become a key element in 2020 marketing strategies. On the digital channels, marketers are struggling to secure a few moments of attention from their audience. On the digital channels, marketers are struggling to secure a few moments of attention from their audience. Crowdsource topics, themes, and content.

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Sprout Social

MAY 31, 2022

As a marketer, how do you make sure your message is effective? There are four main types of content social media marketers should consider when they’re joining—or starting—a social media movement. They can also separate communities from their culture. Community is arguably the most important part of social media activism.

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Rebekah Radice

JUNE 8, 2017

But if you do it right, a contest can be a great addition to your marketing strategy. It rolls over into your overall marketing strategy and helps meet specific objectives. To really understand what you’d like out of a contest, you must remember and understand the modern marketing funnel. Product development crowdsourcing.

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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

And taking out injunctions to stop social media “crowdsourcing” about her, her family and her business. That would be a berak through and give to Australia as it has for America a proper dose of free market thinking. Crowdsourcing is so much more than gossiping about family troubles of the Super Rich.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Blog Post Series - A Collection of Posts on How & Why Blog Post Series are Effective Content Marketing. Nick Kellet is co-founder of the social curation platform Listly , that combines crowdsourcing, content curation and embedable lists to drive high-level community engagement, live inside your blog posts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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Rebekah Radice

JULY 5, 2018

Rather than focusing on one-off tactics, you connect strategically align your sales and marketing efforts. That’s where email marketing comes in. Pairing social media with email marketing is a way to move people off social channels and into a more personalized conversation. But to do that, you need a holistic solution.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 25, 2012

Clinton Bonner is an Open Innovation author/blogger, futurist and Marketing Manager at TopCoder – a global Open Innovation platform and community. Why Marketers are Now Technology Geeks? Marketers begin to see potential beyond the traditional web. If that was your answer, you are correct.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This might seem like a tall order, but you can break this down into attainable tactics and goals that can become part of your social media marketing strategy. Read on to learn how you can bring the concept of brand loyalty into focus through your marketing. Build a community. What is brand loyalty and why is it important?

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Akamai Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Writing a book is no-less a task master, just a different one from marketing to distribution And. Many writers might think the only role for social media is in the marketing and promotional phase. But throughout the book, Kawasaki provides examples of how his social community made the book better, during each phase.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Done by people who are from the communities in which they report, talking about the future and inevitable changes, and focused on making a transition rather than protesting the inevitable. Proponents call systems where computers put people to work ' crowdsourcing' or ' urking' or 'the wisdom of the crowds'. crowdsource.

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