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Social Media is Not a Selling Forum

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Many retailers have indicated that they plan to promote and sell their merchandise via social media sites this holiday season.  Most people don’t join or participate in social media networking so that someone can sell something to them.  People join social media networking sites to socialize, connect with friends or business associates, discuss topics of [...]

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How to Make the Most of Your LinkedIn Presence

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LinkedIn has over 47 million members around the world and continues to add new members at the rate of about 1 per second. Over 50% have management / director / executive titles and executives from all Fortune 500 companies are members. Over 50% of LinkedIn members are business decision makers. LinkedIn is [...]

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Overall Advertising Spend Down But Up on Social Networks

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Two separate, recent reports from Nielsen provide interesting and insightful information for marketers from trends in advertising spending.
Nielsen’s Global AdView Pulse, which reports advertising across 27 markets in Asia, North America, Europe and Africa, shows overall advertising expenditures decreased 6.8% for the first half of 2009 compared to the same period last year. Regional [...]

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20 Examples of Business Success with Twitter

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Many business executives/owners/operators and marketers are unsure about how to use Twitter effectively for their business. They understand it requires more than just posting frivolous updates in response to the Twitter “What are you doing?” question.
Rather than go through an academic discussion of the various aspects to consider for using Twitter to connect with [...]

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Where are you on the social media participation ladder?

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Forrester Research recently published their third annual Social Technographics Profile research review of social media participation. Forrester categorize 6 groups or levels of participation in an incremental ladder of participative activities as indicated in the following diagram:

These are some interesting highlights from the 2009 report for the USA online market:

Approximately 80% of all online [...]

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Expanding your business Internet presence with Social Bookmarking

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You’ve probably noticed those little icons on blogs, news sites and other websites inviting you to bookmark or share the article, story, news item, blog post, etc. you’ve just read. See the end of this article and other articles on this website for an example. This article will help familiarize you with social [...]

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Businesses still fear Social Media

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Two recent research studies indicate that many businesses still fear social media. The primary reasons for this fear are security, trust, employee productivity and lack of knowledge about social media. According to a research study by Sophos in April 2009, 63% of the business surveyed worry that workers are sharing too much information [...]

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“United Breaks Guitars” incident – important lessons for businesses about the power of social media

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The “United Breaks Guitars” video post on YouTube is another example in a series of incidents demonstrating how customers can voice complaints about poor and indifferent service from businesses. If you’re not familiar with the “United Breaks Guitars” incident, Dave Carroll is a professional musician who’s $3,500 Taylor guitar was broken by baggage handlers [...]

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What is Social Media Marketing?

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Firstly, we should understand what ‘social media’ means. Media are communication instruments. Traditional media such as newspaper, radio and TV formats are one-way communication formats from the publisher to the reader, listener or viewer. Social relates to society and how it is organized with people interacting and forming communities. Social media [...]

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