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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. By creating informative and engaging content, brands can cultivate relationships with customers and followers that lead to conversions. Social curation and bookmarking sites.

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Monitor Your Brand Online-Part 1

Harp Interactive

One of the main objectives for all social media marketing initiatives for a brand is to “ navigate the narrative&#. In other words, to ensure that your competitors or disgruntled customers don’t steer conversations in a way that put you on the defensive. Tags (keywords on social bookmarking sites and Twitter Hashtags).

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Writing Around the Web – Social Media ROI, Google+, and Local Search

Kikolani

Featured Post – Social Media ROI with Google Anlaytics 5. This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Conversion-Fest Blogging Contest. Search Engines vs. Social Media – Which Matters Most – Three reasons why you shouldn’t be just doing one or the other, but both.

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Conversation: Out of the IUPUI classroom and into YATS

Firebelly

The result was conversation, good food, laughs, andeveryone learned something new about one another. Conversations ranged from“what would be your ideal job?” Students that participated actively were invited to have lunchwith Professor Brian Benedict and Duncan at Firebelly client (of course) YATSon Massachusetts Ave.

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Too much flash turns google off

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « social media marketings good news | Main | Courtney Love gets sued over tweets » November 18, 2009 Too much flash turns google off Search Engine Optimization: Flash doesn't entice google Google is like a hippy girl.

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Which Social Media Channels Should I Use For My Business?

yMarketingMatters

Google+ has 359 million active users a month – far from the ghost town it is popularly believed to be. Many see Google+ as a combination of Twitter and Facebook, but its new features makes it a marketing paradise. Remember: Google+ is Google, which means great search engine results for your business!

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How Social Bookmarking Works [Plus 7 Tools To Help You Do It]

Hootsuite

That’s where social bookmarking comes in. Bonus: Download a free guide to learn how to use social media monitoring to boost sales and conversions today. What is social bookmarking? Social bookmarking is a way for users to search, manage, organize, and share web pages. Trending topics on Digg.