Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

For many news pages, social media has become the number one referrer and we are seeing some evidence that websites in the travel vertical and other such experience/story based content websites are moving towards the same pattern. Chad Richards is Social Marketing Manager at Firebelly Marketing, a social media marketing agency.

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Like a lot of people, I’m registered on both Klout and Peerindex , which both attempt to track my online influence in slightly different ways to give one overall score which can be compared to others in my areas of interest. Measuring influence or just tracking loyalty? and Flickr.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. Brands have realized that social networks offer an opportunity to interact directly with consumers. Influencer identification. She also blogs at [link].

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Atom Thought

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What happens if Yahoo also launches a social platform around it’s email service integrated with flickr? Better still: What happens if Microsoft launches a social platform around outlook email application? huge chunk of revenue and influence opportunity. And very soon, Google walked out of TeleAtlas too!

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I was invited to speak on social media in the Enterprise by Cadre eLearning to a group of corporate training people. Training departments and social media. The diagrams I used are on Flickr. One person finding a social training object e.g. a video and passing it to others. Here are the slides for them. All the ables.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Promote events through social media?

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 16, 2011

Empire Avenue is a stock market simulation social network game that allows users to buy and sell shares of people and websites. Part game, part ratings system, Empire Avenue works by allowing users to create a ticker inked to their activity on various social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. Do study your influencers Want to reach out to influencers ? Thing is, some people don’t really reach out correctly to influencers. Study your influencers out; don’t take the lazy path because you can.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

No way I’m going to share how brilliant sharing behind the scenes is, nor how I really think it’s brilliant to mix who they reply to between influencers and “normal people&# who barely have any followers. &# since I’m sure people never ask that about TV commercials the day they first air. Who’s with me? (By

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Second: if Keys et al wield the kind of online influence they apparently think they do, why on earth didn’t the campaign become an overnight phenomenon? Blink The thing with social networks, particularly one such as Twitter, is that the streams move so fast, you barely notice someone’s absence.

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Talkwalker SM

MARCH 25, 2016

In our new report , we explain how using a combination of image recognition technology with advanced social intelligence, brands can now get a full picture of their brand online and make sure they know all the conversations taking place about their company. Q1: First of all, what exactly is “visual listening”?

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 8, 2011

From there it was merely a hop, skip and jump to the fourth generation of cellular wireless (4G) standards that social media and wireless communication users enjoy today. Facebook aficionados in particular are known to congregate in hot spots that feature free access to the social network for laptops and cell phones.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

After all, spending time, money, and other precious resources on social media marketing before you have an understanding of what it can do for you is kind of like putting the cart before the horse (not advisable). It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. It introduces your brand Is your company new?

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Marketing Best Practices By Debra Aho Williamson eMarketer forecasts that social network ad spending will reach $2.5 Mobile social networks will reach 223 million people around the world. billion worldwide in 2010 and $1.3 billion in the US.

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

Influencer Monitoring. Relevant Influencers drive conversation and action so they are an important part of social media. Your monitoring tool should help track a variety of things in this area: The partner influencer – You may actively work with influencers to promote your campaigns on a paid/unpaid capacity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Advertising Building your personal brand is about interacting with others and establishing your credentials. Logging onto social networks only to propagate self aggrandizing propaganda will turn off potential clients. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Social media can help you create a long-term relationship with your consumer that ensures they continue to visit you, and not a competitor. 3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. I think e-commerce benefits from social media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Its time to elevate the conversation beyond features (wiki, blog, RSS, social networking, etc.), Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext , the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 put aside the hype and talk about what problems the Enteprise 2.0 Dmitri on Twitter Tips the Tuna.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

You should definitely follow these guys, not because some of them qualify as so-called thought leaders, but since they’re early-starters , they might have a degree of influence on your mind with their observations. A couple of years of ago, one could easily identify active users through blogs & discussion forums.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Despite the title of the post, having worked as the social media manager for Fortune 500 companies, and a lot of knowledge here being totally personal, I do not think of myself as an expert. Influencers accept that they have a position to hold and won’t abuse it for a quick buck.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly It’s much appreciated. It’s much appreciated.

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The Social Media Hat

APRIL 13, 2017

She wanted some basic guidance on how to use social networks, and which she should be using. I was quite surprised then when, 6 months later, she recommended me to take the role of Chief Marketing Officer for SiteSell, a company that has been helping solopreneurs like her to start online businesses since 1997. tweet this!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. In every business niche the smart people are reaching out to influencers to try and carve out a special place in their heart/blog.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

” It will tell you how many people you directly influence, what kind of sway you hold over others within your industry, and more. What it does is effectively measure online influence through the prism of social network import and reach. Tell us how in the comments. He leads the team at www.reputationchanger.com.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

It was a fantastic illustration that you have in the book that shows your own personal media usage habits and the channels across the social Web that you used a few years ago versus the ones that you use now. Flickr, going back to FriendFeed and Plurk and things that we don’t necessarily use now. Is that a sign of the times?

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 8, 2009

When you are conversing on social networks, how, what, and when do you disclose your business relationship? He lost some followers too though many said K-Mart was smart to find such a popular person of influence with whom they could spend very little money and gain an incredible amount of publicity. All around bad news.

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Bare Feet Studios

OCTOBER 21, 2009

I also have less faith in a company if they don’t have a good website or an updated website. Why spend the money for power clothes when influencing someone is not important. Why spend the money for a logo when influencing someone is also not important. Yes, as a major part of a company’s brand image.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 24, 2018

Savvy B2B marketers put significant effort into developing a professional, attractive, and highly functional website design —as the company’s website is often the first impression prospective buyers will get of the business and its offerings. What are people saying about your company / brand on social media sites?

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Consider Rox’s 180 Rule by Roxanne Darling on December 3, 2009 When I am doing social web training these days, at least once or twice an hour I implement what I call “Rox’s 180 Rule.&# Most companies tend to move into research mode at this point and seek out what others are doing or attempt to guess what others would want.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector. The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm Lets say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew.

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