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How Digital is Transforming Financial Technology

Oktopost

Financial services were historically dependent on conferences and events as the main source for strategic marketing, meaning their marketing budget for these resources were fairly big. To put it simply, events and conferences have been replaced by data.

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Lessons in Humanity from Shidoobee

Waxing UnLyrical

So I asked my husband about it, and it turns out there’s a Rolling Stones-related message board called Shidoobee , which hardcore Stones fans (yes, B.H. I’m not sure that if the tables were turned, and the Ronnie-heads showed up a BlogWorld or similar SM event, they would be treated in quite the same friendly way.

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The Benefits of Offline Marketing

Kikolani

Especially if you are targeting a local customer base, brochures can come in handy when you are at a local event or when you are meeting with a local business partner. Events are perfect form of offline network marketing that can increase your business’ revenue, regardless of whether you are going as an attendee, speaker, or exhibitor.

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How Brands & Marketers Should Navigate the 2020 Election

Likeable

Even far smaller events prompted pauses for some of our brands. Before the web got social, the anonymity problem had already exploded and email, message boards, and websites spread plenty of misinformation. In the years that we’ve been doing social media, responses to crises have morphed considerably. Indonesian Tsunami?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social Events (e.g., Eventful, Meetup, Upcoming, etc.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). . • Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Tweet This!

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Are You Keeping People Connected With Your Brand and Each Other?

Convince & Convert

The Weight Watchers site features a Community section with message boards for support, etc. The astronomical price makes sense; the Super Bowl is one of the few television events that people watch completely live, which means no fast-forwarding through commercials on the DVR.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well?