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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What makes your company interesting to them?

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How Twitter’s New Conversation Dynamics Will Affect Your Brand

Ignite Social Media

A smaller group of highly engaged, enthusiastic fans is a better advocate for your brand than a large group of silent social media lurkers. As we’ve said before , the quality of followers is far more valuable than the quantity.

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How Social Media Marketers Use Social Media In Real Life

Ignite Social Media

I utilize social media to keep in constant communication with my friends and family, follow my favorite gaming companies for the latest news on video games, and watch livestreams from my friends and groups using Facebook Live. Do you focus on communicating with your friends and family or do you prefer to be a social media lurker?

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How to Measure Social Media Success for Your Small Business

yMarketingMatters

With social media marketing, you can undeniably grow your audience, gain visibility and exposure for your company/products/services, provide outstanding customer service, and – yes – generate business and increase sales. Many businesses have social media “lurkers” who are following along but d on’t always use social media to engage.

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Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. 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.

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The 1-9-90 rule won't work for Internal Collaboration

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Productivity gains are now at everyone’s fingertips … So you begin recruiting your internal employees, getting them to join, asking them to get others to join, and placing reminders to join in the company newsletter – you whole organization is a buzz with the news. You are a hero. But where is the productivity?

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The “other” types of social media users

Direct Marketing Observations

We have talked a lot about digital natives, immigrants, early adopters, lurkers and what not, but there is another group I’ve been tinkering with that I can easily add to the mix. This is such a transcendent time isn’t it? I’ve been thinking a lot about how people use social networks and why. Hopscotchers.

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