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Twitter 'Spammer' Lawsuits - What's the Real Motivation?
I hate Spam just as much as the next person.And nobody likes it when they get assaulted by a stream of Viagra-advertisements on Twitter - or even worse, click on seemingly worthwhile links only to be sent to questionable or even dangerous websites.But I am extremely skeptical about Twitter's laws...
By Hollis Tibbetts • April 6, 2012 -
ViDEO: Raising Prices Without Ticking Off Your Market
In this week's episode of "Inside the Mind", we're going to talk about how to raise prices and stop misunderstanding your market.If you like these videos consider subscribing and leave a comment letting me know what you'd like to see covered in future episodes! Hey What's up guys, welcome to Ins...
By Tommy Walker • April 6, 2012 -
6 Ways to Integrate Print with Your Social Media Marketing
The Internet has undoubtedly changed the world of advertising forever, and a successful advertising campaign must embrace this medium in order to be successful. One may think that a purely online approach is the answer to the changing business trends, but it's also important to remember that phys...
By Jack Strutzas • April 6, 2012 -
3 Twitter Advertising Best Practices from GraphEffect
Social marketing software company, GraphEffect introduced its new Twitter offerings at the ad:tech Conference in San Francisco this week. I met with James Borow, CEO of the company, whose focus two years ago was on enabling social marketing campaigns on the Facebook platform. GraphEffect's latest...
By Andre Bourque • April 5, 2012 -
The Social Media Clubhouse: MLB's New Social Media Policy in Action
The 2012 Major League Baseball (MLB) season is just under way, and a growing number of the ballpark faithful are connecting with their home team like never before. Whether you root for the Brew Crew, the Buccos, the BoSox, or the Bronx Bombers, all of the 30 MLB teams are now curating content in ...
By David Hall • April 5, 2012 -
The Basics of Using Online Social Networks to Boost Local Business
It is the information age. It only makes sense that local business stay in contact with their clients through the use of social media. Not only is this a good way to stay connected to existing clients, but it is a great way to reach out to potential new clients. In addition, it helps to boost ...
By Silver Teede • April 5, 2012 -
How to Build a LinkedIn Presence that Generates Leads
Have you noticed that LinkedIn tends to be left out of the social media conversation when it comes to lead generation? A Hubspot study recently found LinkedIn lead generation trounced Twitter and Facebook by 277%! Are you missing out? Below is a methodology we use at our inbound marketing agency ...
By Kevin Jorgensen • April 4, 2012 -
Don't Overreact to a Potential Social Media Crisis
We do a lot of crisis management and crisis training for clients. There are certain new "truths" about how crisis can unfold across digital and social media that can put business at risk. The irresponsible videos from rogue employees at Domino's Pizza, the thoughtless tweets from Kenneth Cole, an...
By John Bell • April 4, 2012 -
Does Facebook Timeline Drive Up Engagement?
According to Simply Measured the answer is a clear "yes". Their report shows strong Engagement-per-post gains for fifteen of the first-movers since the new feature set launched. Pages like Toyota, Red Bull, Macy's, Ben & Jerry's were amongst the top 10 or so in their limited review that gaine...
By John Bell • April 4, 2012 -
What Billy Joel, C-Level Execs & Social Media Have In Common
A recent study reveals the ever-growing importance and need for c-level suite folks to use social media as a means to engage its customers and prospects alike and to earn their trust in the process.And in today's hyperactive social media, digital-crazed world we all reside in, it is, to paraphras...
By Steve Olenski • April 3, 2012 -
Finding Content Ideas Quickly with Google+
Do you have trouble coming up with ideas on what to post on Facebook, Twitter, or even Google+? Do you wish you had more ways of generating ideas for your blog? I have found a quick and easy way to get more content ideas from searching within Google+. Here's how!First thing you want to do is s...
By Nina Churchill • April 3, 2012 -
3 Benefits of Answering YouTube Comments on Your Channel
Engagement is a huge buzz word in the social media space. Brands are often tasked with spurring this engagement with their audiences on each social network they are active on, but often comments on a brand's YouTube channel are left unanswered. It's just as important to respond to the comments of...
By Brian Honigman • April 3, 2012 -
Social Analytics: Why the Calculus Teacher Is Now Your Guidance Counselor
In an interesting development I learned last week, social data and analytics providers are becoming agencies - advising and consulting with brands on strategy based on the very data they collect.So much for selling data.'We don't believe data monitors work as a business model,' explains Nanda Kis...
By Jake Wengroff • April 2, 2012 -
Is eMail Marketing Dead? Hardly, Says Marketfish CEO, Dave Scott
The Big DebateIs email marketing dead? I've written about this two years ago and it keeps coming back. Certainly, mumblings around the social media circuit like to evoke the sentiment and I expect we'll here more about it at San Francisco's ad:tech this week. I'm sure there's a track somewhere in...
By Andre Bourque • April 2, 2012 -
Market Test for Cents with New Google Product
Google gets data in ways which many other companies don't. The company also understands value. It's this mash-up of the two which allowed it to disrupt the online advertising industry with the innovative idea of low-cost Google Ads which helped generate value for publishers and advertisers alike ...
By David Amerland • April 2, 2012 -
3 Keys for the Content-Challenged
What is your biggest content marketing challenge? When Joe Pullizi (Content Marketing Institute) and Ann Handley (Marketing Profs) asked that question in their 2012 B2B Content Marketing Survey, the overwhelming answer (over 2-to-1) was, "producing the kind of content that engages prospects." Whe...
By Chris Syme • April 2, 2012 -
Survival of the Fitting: 10 Important Trends to Survive Digital Darwinism
Digital Darwinism is a phenomenon when technology and society evolve faster than the ability to adapt. And, it threatens rigid and traditional practices everywhere. It's no longer just survival of the fittest, but also survival of the fitting. Businesses must earn relevance and to do so requires...
By Brian Solis • April 2, 2012 -
Inbound Marketing Works: A Copywriter's Success Story
I want to tell you a little success story. I'd like to help you understand the strategy that made it work. Additionally, I'd like to help you understand why the same strategy can be the most effective marketing tactic your company will ever take. In the process, I also want to share some powerful...
By Barry Feldman • April 1, 2012 -
Why the Future of Software is No Software
Help desk software is changing - it's social customer service application built for the cloud. Traditionally, customer support software was designed to focus on resolving issues rather than helping people. Customer cases were generally handled by any available agent on a "first come first serve" ...
By Alex Hisaka • March 31, 2012 -
Confessions of a Social Media Girl: Mega Millions Insanity & Missed Opportunities
I'm willing to bet that none of my friends on any social media outlet will win the NY Mega Millions Lottery tonight. I'd go so far as to bet that I would shave my head, if one of them would win.All week long friends and fans of mine have been posting, pinning, tweeting, blogging, and tagging all ...
By Veronica Guzik • March 31, 2012 -
Two Tweets a Day
Brands and companies today have an image problem. A social one, to be exact.How to manage an online presence, create a dialogue and keep consumers and potential clients engaged? Between Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, Google+ and Twitter, the ways and means in which to "share" have exploded with new a...
By Dr. Santanu Bhattacharya • March 30, 2012 -
The Pillars of Influence and How to Activate Cause and Effect
Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media and it is also one of the least understood. Klout,PeerIndex, Kred among many others are investing millions of dollars to understand how our social media activity translates into influence. The market for influence is only heating up w...
By Brian Solis • March 29, 2012 -
ViDEO - Human Media: Beyond Social Media (TEDx Talk)
Here, I synthesize the concept from where it started everything, the rise of New Media, the Social Media revolution, it disruption and the necessity of a new redesign focused on the right thing, people, not in platforms, tools, APPs or this social hype we live in. I talk also about other concept...
By Isra Garcia • March 29, 2012 -
Marketing to Millenials
Today's marketers must be keenly aware of a new breed of consumer born between 1980 and 2000. These "deciders" make up 20 percent of the global population. Variously known as Echo Boomers or Millennials, they've grown up in the digital world where cell phones, text messaging and envelope-thin la...
By Ripley Daniels • March 29, 2012 -
The Art of Social Image Curation and Visual Linking
It seems like everyone is jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon these days and creating boards of their favorite images. I have to admit, I too, have found it quite pleasurable to browse the hundreds of pictures that range from cool products to delicious food to interesting architecture.During my ti...
By Tony Obregon • March 28, 2012