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Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards

Kikolani

Today’s companies are quickly recognizing the power that social media tools such as forums and message boards can have for finding new customers and spreading the word about products and services. Photo Credit: Alexander Svensson on Flickr. This is a guest post by Olga Ionel. Consider Banner Advertising.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). If you’re using a professional (fee-based) social media monitoring tool, start there to identify these message boards, forums and other sites where people in your market are asking and answering questions. Collecting this information is Phase I.

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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. Image: joshbg2k via Flickr, CC 2.0. I saw tons of people greeting each other … to the extent it could have been a 50th high school reunion. is one) frequent.

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The Benefits of Offline Marketing

Kikolani

Photo Credit: Chris Heller on Flickr. Effective Online Marketing with Forums and Message Boards. Despite the growth of the Internet, it is important to realize that only 78.1% of users in the US have access to the Internet that leaves 21.9% of users whom you cannot reach online. Why Every Blog Should Have a Marketing Plan.

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US Women Are Following Brands & Stores

Proactive Report

If you market a product in these categories and you were wondering how all this online chatter affects store sales, take note of this finding – women are 77% more likely to look for products and 67% more likely to purchase them in a store after reading online reviews on a community forum or message board. Follow me on Twitter.

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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?

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

They harnessed blogs and message boards – “be very careful if you are trying to sell them – must be a very genuine conversation” Went to breast cancer blog sites – tried to give relevant information and how they can join in National Breast Cancer Awareness day.