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MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations. Great post!

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JUNE 22, 2010

You have to commit to social media for the long haul to see the benefits. I think instead what the mantra should be is 'integrated strategies work, and social media can add another important dimension to those strategies.' You also know how to measure your ROI effectively. Good luck converting the masses !

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Social is an Ingredient, not an Entree Help clients find ways to add social components to existing marketing (print, outdoor, broadcast, direct mail, email, search, live events) – rather than viewing social media as a freestanding silo.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. If your audience skews older, you may not want to engage in a lot of “make a video&# contests, since that segment indexes low on the “Creator&# scale. Volvo = Safety.

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JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. October 2007.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 22, 2011

Rapportive is a social CRM, giving you important information about the person who is emailing you. If they’re connected via social networks, you get their picture, their location, and job titles, in addition to their Twitter feed and Facebook updates (if available) and links to their social profiles.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. teens using Twitter, compared to 66% engaged in texting. Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Little iPhone games like solitaire become substantially more engaging on the iPad. When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), In fact, because of how close you can hold the iPad, to me its screen size feels bigger than my 15-inch MacBook. And MiFi is soooo much better than USB dongle.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I use Objective Marketer for all of my in-advance Tweets, and when I want to engage in some headline and/or time of day testing.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

With FBML and a flurry of new easy-to-use Facebook tab customization providers like North Social (check them out, really great stuff), it’s now possible to include on your Facebook fan page much of the most engaging content and functionality that previously was the sole property of a freestanding website.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

With FBML and a flurry of new easy-to-use Facebook tab customization providers like North Social (check them out, really great stuff), it’s now possible to include on your Facebook fan page much of the most engaging content and functionality that previously was the sole property of a freestanding website.

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JUNE 28, 2010

If the content gets plenty of comments (good/bad), you need a response plan (the oft mentioned engagement). This is functionally similar to the Creative Brief that ad agencies have been using for decades to help copywriters and artists understand the psychology of the customer, and what needs to be included in the advertisement.

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