Convince & Convert

JANUARY 13, 2015

It’s no small secret your online community and your loyal customers within are your company’s greatest asset. While a customer may be happy with their one-time experience with your brand, what’s going to make them a lifelong community member? Give your online community a nickname that’s exclusive amongst your group members.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Use attention-grabbing content tailored for specific groups of your audience. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zoë Sugg (@zoesugg) Build a community Create a place where your target audience can gather online and connect with like-minded people. Share personalized content Social media users don’t react to generic content.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 2, 2022

And brands also have the ability to interact with their audiences in real time, building community by asking and answering questions. Gaming and community content. If you have more than 1,000 subscribers on the platform, you have access to YouTube’s Community tab, which allows you to carve out a dedicated forum for your audience.

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Hootsuite

MAY 3, 2023

Join a Slack community You may already use Slack to communicate with your team internally, but have you ever thought of using it to generate real estate leads? Slack communities are where people interested in a certain topic can come together to discuss the industry, ask questions, and swap advice or stories with other members.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

3) Leverage your community – Whether you build your own or rent one from a provider like LinkedIn Groups, a community is a great place to promote a new solution to your existing customers. When you do that the results reported in a recent Jive report of over 2000 customers are outstanding.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 30, 2007

Home About In the Media People, Pages and Fun – Cool Jimdo Discussion forums still alive. 45 pm Web Hosting demystified – I Jump to Comments I’ve been running my blog on wordpress.com which offcourse is a free account currently. i have use it to hosting my web qronis.web.id July 30, 2007.5:45

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 22, 2018

Social Media today has an undeniable power of spreading information, growing the business and developing community. It is also a vital communication tool in various industries including healthcare. Group of 18 to 24 year old are 2 xs more likely to use social media for health-related discussions than the group of 45 to 54 years.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building a brand community isn’t about improving vanity metrics like engagement and follower count. According to a survey from Vanilla Forums , 58% of brands say their communities improve customer loyalty. The Groups feature allows Beauty Insider members to hone in on the content that interests them most. Image source.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 21, 2023

Leading tech companies, government entities like the United Nations and research and data science communities have worked to shape and publish guidelines to address ethical issues. Our community discussed several risks including privacy infringement, manipulation of public opinion and autonomous weapons.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 29, 2009

ABC TV show sacks their host – excuse me, founding host – Jeremy Ray. The Facebook group. Join the facebook group – “Save Junglist!- Keep Junglist as Host of Good Game&# at [link]. Make a video, upload it to YouTube or Facebook and post it on the wall of the facebook group mentioned above.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2013

And neither is Davina Brewer , nor Laura Scholz , nor a whole host of other business owners (just do an Internet search for the phrase and you’ll see what I mean). We host, and participate in, Twitter chats. We host, and participate in, Twitter chats. We participate in LinkedIn groups. We’re not mean people.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

Twitter as Conversation Forum. Twitter chats and interviews have become routine, but the platform’s limitations make it a decidedly less than optimal venue for this type of group communication. A startup wants to change that, however, and enable Twitter to fulfill its promise as a real-time discussion forum.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2014

This is a guest contribution from Kerry Jones of CopyPress Community. Six Tips for Hosting an Interview Series. Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ can all be used as public interview forums. Use social media to crowdsource questions or host a live Q & A session with the interviewee. Choose the Right Format.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2013

This week 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. Today I want to dig deeper into some specific things to DO to build community on your blog.

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Communities Strategy Forums Ustream 55

ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2023

Engage Your Audience through Events and Community Star Wars has excelled in creating a sense of community and engagement among its fans. As a blogger, fostering a similar community around your blog can have a profound impact on its success. Consider hosting events or meet-ups for your readers, both online and offline.

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Jeff Esposito

APRIL 22, 2012

One of the more interesting, but challenging, aspects of my job is community management. Effective managers do not view their community as tied to a specific technology or network, but rather as a group of users who share principles and interests. Evolution – communities are not built overnight.

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ProBlogger

JULY 21, 2011

But then again, I never expected the little website I created to keep friends and family informed about Jerry’s progress to become the largest online community for canine amputees and their people either. Forums create discussion. Jerry was the Chief Fun Officer of the design firm my wife Rene and I grew for nearly ten years.

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Sites Communities Forums Handbook 42

Oktopost

DECEMBER 18, 2023

B2B marketing leaders plan to spend 30% of their budgets on brand building , and community management is a vital part of that. An engaged community can amplify your content reach, boost customer loyalty, reduce churn rates, and even draw new leads to your brand. Community management software can take your brand building to a new level.

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Later

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For example, Instagram is a major destination for social commerce, whereas Facebook is best for community-building, and Pinterest for inspiration and brand affinity. But where Instagram is somewhat lacking is in its ability to provide “group forums” for followers to interact among themselves. View this post on Instagram.

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Buffer Social

JULY 11, 2018

There are plenty of websites and communities online that you can use for your content research. Some other places you’d do well to look are: Facebook Groups. LinkedIn Groups. No matter what topic you’re trying to research, there’s almost certainly a subreddit (Reddit’s name for topic-specific forums) for it.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

We met with their team in a small group, then facilitated two large group meetings–the first to discuss a rough draft we wrote, and the second to finalize a draft that would be sent through the proper channels for approval. We helped them experiment with a private whitelabel community for their members. FORUM magazine.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Many people use forums, blogs and different social networks for communication and ideas sharing. Thus, the marketing coordinators of such projects strive for creating a community of existing fellow users or project contributors and attracting more new visitors to the company or creative group website. Don’t Be Careless.

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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. Will you be there? Will let you know. Related posts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 11, 2008

Much of this stuff is standard across any kind of online community, and I don’t claim to be very original in any of this. Find out how they like to communicate - do they prefer email, discussion forums, or are they happy getting their hands dirty with a wiki? Test it out on some of your initial group to get their thoughts.

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Buffer Social

MARCH 9, 2017

Digital Marketing World Forum Expo Global (June 19-20, London). Besides this summit, the organizer, Innovation Enterprise, hosts more than a hundred webinars and summits on various topics each year. Digital Marketing World Forum Expo Global. WistiaFest (June 11-13, Boston). Corporate Social Media Summit (June 15-16, New York).

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Hootsuite

MARCH 26, 2020

Here’s a rundown of the different kinds of online business events your company can host. Host a laidback Ask Me Anything (AMA) on social media. How to host a virtual event (and tools that can help). There are a variety of ways to host a virtual event. Reddit : A discussion forum popular for AMAs. Live tweeting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You can add custom reports for a whole host of your social media profiles and even incorporate essential pieces of Google Analytics data. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Here’s a quick glance at the data it can provide.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work.

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The Social Media Hat

APRIL 13, 2017

suite of tools, training and community so that I could review everything. As I sifted through the community discussions I found thousands of SBI! Domain Name, Managed Hosting, Website builder and customizable templates Keyword Research and other tools Free Support & Guidance A community of like-minded solopreneurs.

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Eight years after building my first website, I began blogging 2004 on a now-deleted LiveJournal community. We’ve launched a monthly book club which features social media industry titles and host monthly webinars accessible to all SMC members worldwide. Our first Board was a small, but passionate group. Fred Wilson.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 17, 2021

Community management is just one piece of the puzzle. And, just like with every piece of social media management , your community managers need the proper tools to see success. What is community management? We’ve rounded up a list of tools that can help with a variety of aspects of community management.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

On June the Seventh, the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester provided the venue for an event hosted by the CETIS Pedagogy Forum to discuss a new and exciting topic, the Personal Learning Environment (PLE). On the first day, the PLE team (based at the Universities of Bolton and Strathclyde) had gathered together a group of â??expertsâ??

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. Currency has no inherent value itself – only what we, the community, say it’s worth. They have a clip-of-the-sale revenue model themselves. With traditional media.

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Later

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Building a loyal fan base and community around your brand. UGC Best Practices #5: Encourage UGC That Builds Community. UGC is also about building a community, so if you’re looking to harness its power, you need to make your audience feel they’re part of something bigger than a simple repost. View this post on Instagram.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

Question: I have a wordpress blog and am considering hosting it myself so that the site name looks more professional. Answer: The difference between WordPress.com and a self-hosted version of the WordPress platform is the control you will have with the latter, but with that control also comes the need for maintenance.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

From building business to getting a straight answer, social networking sites offer up a wide-ranging community. s features allows members to post questions in a number of forums focused on particular topics and geographical areas. They can also ask and answer questions and use groups to communicate with people with similar interests.

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Later

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Influencer marketing is a great way to increase brand awareness, grow your community, and drive sales on Instagram. As an entrepreneur, she uses humor and vulnerability to empower her community to be confident. It sounds corny but that’s what grows your community and builds trust. A busy woman, indeed.

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