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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

and where they are talking about it), sentiment analysis, and collaboration tools for acting on the information. Nielsen BuzzMetrics. Nielsen’s monitoring covers more than 100 million blogs, social networking sites, discussion boards and other sites where consumers can post content. Until fairly recently, keeping track of your organization’s online presence was relatively easy.

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Facebook for Marketing Research: Political Polls #auspol

Laurel Papworth

I read an article on Wendy Harmer’s Hoopla Polls Fake Story by @gabriellechan that got me thinking about Nielsen polls, sentiment analysis and focus groups. Nielsen, Gallop, Newspoll, I don’t care, you all suck. Especially when most of the people contacted are a tainted database – “people on our business list” is I think Nielsens database. Does Facebook do Sentiment Analysis? Facebook Advertising and Sentiment.

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Top 3 Mistakes Brands Make with Influencer Marketing

Convince & Convert

Influencer marketing—who hasn’t heard of it? Defined as “ the strategy of establishing relationships with influential people who can amplify and expand visibility for your brand’s products and services ,” influencer marketing is all about connecting with the right folks in order to get your message out there, authentically. When executed correctly, influencer marketing has the ability to reach niche audiences and create a greater impact than traditional advertising methods.

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How to use Instagram for B2B marketing

Sprout Social

For too long, marketers have thought of Instagram as strictly B2C turf. Most marketers want to see data before making strategy adjustments. Luckily, there’s tons of research that supports the power of B2B Instagram marketing. 4 B2B Instagram marketing examples we love.

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New Platforms + Meager Results = Same Old Song And Dance

Twist Image

Explosive growth on a platform does not (often) come with great marketing results for brands. In the early days of digital marketing, brands would be completely confused why their advertising was not performing, when there was such a large and growing audience online. You would think that as the Internet took hold, that this sentiment would dissipate. Read this article from AdWeek : Snapchat Is Now Selling Ads Against Nielsen's TV-Like Ratings System ). marketer.

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Social Media In 2012: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (5 Must-Reads)

Firebelly

From the Nielsen Social Media Report for 2012. By Dori Zinn With our favorite restaurants and brands offering deals and gifts on Facebook and Twitter, there’s no shortage of companies eliminating the marketing middle man and advertising straight to the consumer. Nielsen has just published their Social Media Report for 2012 and the numbers are staggering. Blog Social Media Social Media Marketing2012 was an exciting year in the social media space.

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Shifting Focus From The Traditional Marketing Funnel To Personalized Messaging Using Social Media

SocMed Sean

There’s a lot of confusion about social media these days, and marketing professionals aren’t making it any easier. As a result, agencies and marketing professionals are being asked more frequently by executives how they can “use social” or get social” by engaging in the social space. Take the traditional “marketing/sales” funnel as an example. What does that mean for marketing professionals?

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The New Measurement: Shifting from Traditional PR to Growth PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Marketing and Communications are converging as PR is poised to evolve radically over the next decade. Thanks to the latest technologies, PR now has the potential to be a data-driven powerhouse that maps to real business results, earning a seat at the table alongside Marketing generally, or, at least, other important marketing activities. Sales and Marketing are measured by their business impact, and PR will be, too. Guest Post by Dan Beltramo.

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Why Twitter Killed the Twitter Share Button

Convince & Convert

It is one in a long line of examples where the Silicon Valley stars favor engineering decisions instead of marketing decisions and it is getting really tiresome.” Twitter’s other business strategy seems to be centered on turning the company into a big data analytics powerhouse with a consumer sentiment overlay. If you’re reading this blog, you are in the top 1% of experienced social media and digital marketing practitioners in the world.

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B2B Employee Advocacy Best Practices

Oktopost

It can take months for a B2B marketing team to build up a company’s presence and credibility online. This is exactly why employee advocacy is so powerful: your team is the key to unlocking the true potential of social media marketing. Brand Sentiment. Table of Contents.

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It’s Not Too Late to Return the Social to Social Media

Convince & Convert

No longer purely a medium for self-expression, it has become the predominant marketing channel. In the years since Benioff wrote his manifesto, enterprises have become obsessed with connecting with customers via Facebook, Twitter or other social media, as they then monitor sentiment and measure effectiveness. I helped customers harness social media as new marketing and ad channels. And I cheered as social media became integral to enterprise marketing.

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Increase Profits With Smarter Trade Promotions

The Realtime Report

Getting your product to market may have been a daunting task, but any experienced retailer or manufacturer will tell you it’s only uphill from there. However, despite companies’ sentiments, many would be better off staying at home. In a recent study done by Nielsen across 800,000 UPCs and 92 million promotion events, it was discovered that two-thirds (67 percent) of promotions didn’t even break even. Increase Profits With Smarter Trade Promotions.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

From gathered data targeted to a specific demographic group, clients can then maximize their marketing performance from various social media sources. TNS Cymfony – a Kantar Media company, TNS Cymfony provides customers with market influence analytics – some of the best analytics in the industry. Nielsen – this is one of the most well known, and trusted names in customer data analytics.

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4 Ways to Find the Right Eyes for Your Amazing Content

Convince & Convert

Ninety percent of marketers say they currently utilize content marketing in their strategies, but only 26 percent actually invest in their distribution plans. This will optimize your inbound website traffic, create informed buyers, and give you a whole lot of bang for your content-marketing buck. According to Nielsen, peer recommendations are the most trusted form of marketing today, so encourage your employees to share and discuss content on their social accounts.

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Monitoring vs Analytics [Infographic]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Having been in professional services marketing long enough I thought I would use the classic 2×2 graphic to explain the findings visually. I am going to give you a short synopsis of each firm taken directly from the notes I took during my conversations with them and I broke them up into 5 categories: Free monitoring services, Paid monitoring services, Sentiment based analytics, Aggregators of aggregators, and Beyond sentiment analytics firms. SENTIMENT BASED ANALYTICS.

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Social Media Influencers: How to Find, Evaluate and Work with Social Media Influencers

Razor Social

There’s a very good reason why Google trends shows massive growth in search traffic for influencer marketing. A couple of years ago I was training a group of marketing professionals about influencer marketing. In this type of influencer marketing program, the brand ambassador shares images, posts, videos and articles about your product (typically in the context of use), mentions your brand at events, provides testimonials for your website, and more.

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

That’s a content distribution opportunity that B2B marketers should not overlook. What’s more, 83% of people trust recommendations from friends and family more than any other form of advertising, according to Nielsen. This sentiment can help promote a sense of cohesive culture and increase performance. You can use this feature to feed content from trusted niche-relevant publications and co-marketing partner organizations as well. Post by Adi Englander.

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

That’s a content distribution opportunity that B2B marketers should not overlook. What’s more, 83% of people trust recommendations from friends and family more than any other form of advertising, according to Nielsen. This sentiment can help promote a sense of cohesive culture and increase performance. You can use this feature to feed content from trusted niche-relevant publications and co-marketing partner organizations as well. Post by Adi Englander.

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55 (of the) Best Social Media Tips, Tactics and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. 500 companies now call social media “very&# or “somewhat&# important to their marketing or business strategy. How are marketers really using social media?

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39 More (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Of course, there’s no single cookie-cutter approach to social media marketing that works for every enterprise. Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics. Social Media, What Matters Most for Marketers by iMedia Connection. ” 50 Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics by Jeff Bullas. Social Trust Factor: 10 Tips to Establish Credibility by The Marketing Nut. Social Media Marketing – 10 Inspiring Infographics by Jeff Bullas.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Sentiment: How much are you willing to automate verse check by hand? I was on a call the other day with someone from a social management software company and we were talking about how the market is starting to blend.