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The Cost of a Tribe

Akamai Marketing

Tweet “Just Do A Social Media Advocacy Campaign” In social media and in other areas, we’ve been seeing a big surge in “advocacy” and “crowdsourcing.” ” It’s truly an outstanding and exciting result of the democracy of the internet.

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

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.

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

And that can save you serious advertising costs—something your senior leaders will thank you for. Ability to crowdsource. And social media crowdsourcing —or turning to social for audience opinions, ideas and sentiment—is a powerful way to improve your content, products and your business as a whole. Boosts transparency.

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

Idaconcpts

I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets: We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600. Cost for zoho is $300. Craig Donnelly (@craigdonnelly) May 13, 2010.

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Generating a Buyer Persona with Facebook Advertising

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Can your social media activities cost you your job? Tags: Advertising Crowdsourcing Facebook Marketing Social Media Social Networking Strategy behavioral targeting. 5 Tips for Optimizing your Facebook Marketing One of the great things about the Facebook platform is. Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system?

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8 Free Smartphone Apps that Earn You Money

Waxing UnLyrical

But with data plans and phone upgrades costing us a fortune nowadays, wouldn’t it be nice to have a couple of apps that could earn you some of that money back for a change? The Field Agent app uses crowdsourcing to get various types of data from its business clients. Image: Jewels Globe URL via Flickr, CC 2.0. Field Agent.

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Marketing Is Dead

Twist Image

You're going to engage customers and have them crowdsource the next update to your 300-year-old product? but it still acts as an amazing (and cost-effective) way to tell the masses that you have something new to say. crowdsource. Who are we kidding? Does anyone care that much about their breakfast cereal? blog headline.