Can Pinterest Make Your Small Business Bigger?
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Can Pinterest Make Your Small Business Bigger?

10y Mike O'Brien

Can Pinterest Make Your Small Business Bigger?

Pinterest's head of online sales and operations has four tips for leveraging the platform to push your brand’s products. Read More...

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Mr Kipling Boosts Social Media Engagement With Cake Deliveries
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Mr Kipling Boosts Social Media Engagement With Cake Deliveries

10y Mike O'Brien

Mr Kipling Boosts Social Media Engagement With Cak...

This past weekend, the British cake manufacturer launched a contest on its social channels that rewards winners with a cake delivered in time to watch...

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10 Ways for Health Clubs to Flex Their Social Media Muscles
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10 Ways for Health Clubs to Flex Their Social Media Muscles

10y Bob Cargill

10 Ways for Health Clubs to Flex Their Social Medi...

These methods for engaging customers via social media are tailored for health-focused brands, but can really be implemented by any company to help boo...

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What Can Brands Learn From the #ALSIceBucketChallenge?
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What Can Brands Learn From the #ALSIceBucketChallenge?

10y Roger Katz

What Can Brands Learn From the #ALSIceBucketChalle...

Now that the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has reached its zenith, it's time to look at what other brands can learn from its massive success. Read More...

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Social Engagement Comes in Many Forms [#CZLSF]
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Social Engagement Comes in Many Forms [#CZLSF]

10y Mike O'Brien

Social Engagement Comes in Many Forms [#CZLSF]

At her session at ClickZ Live San Francisco, IBM's social business strategist discussed the ways in which several brands have excelled at engagement. ...

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When Content Meets Social - Aligning the Content Message to the Social Medium
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When Content Meets Social - Aligning the Content Message to the Social Medi...

10y Roger Katz

When Content Meets Social - Aligning the Content M...

As consumers become more and more fluent in the nuances of different social media platforms, brands are tasked to tailor their content marketing effor...

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LinkedIn Sales Tool Paves Way For Warmer Leads
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LinkedIn Sales Tool Paves Way For Warmer Leads

10y Mike O'Brien

LinkedIn Sales Tool Paves Way For Warmer Leads

LinkedIn says its Sales Navigator tool will help sales professionals get away from cold outreaches and build better connections with buyers. Read More...

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5 Engagement App Strategies for Converting Fans & Followers into Content Marketers
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5 Engagement App Strategies for Converting Fans & Followers into Conten...

10y Roger Katz

5 Engagement App Strategies for Converting Fans &a...

Social engagement apps are shareable digital experiences that invite consumers (and their friends) into a social relationship with a brand. Done right...

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Brands Are Ready for a Socially Sophisticated 2014 World Cup
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Brands Are Ready for a Socially Sophisticated 2014 World Cup

10y Roger Katz

Brands Are Ready for a Socially Sophisticated 2014...

This time around, social marketing by brands has become much more advanced. So what can we expect from the sponsoring World Cup brands in the coming m...

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Why Declining Organic Facebook Reach Is Good for Social Media Marketers
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Why Declining Organic Facebook Reach Is Good for Social Media Marketers

10y Krista Neher

Why Declining Organic Facebook Reach Is Good for S...

Facebook advertising and sponsored posts aren't perfect, but they are the beginning of more accountability and a focus on what really matters: great c...

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Social Organic Reach Is Trending to Zero: How to Meet the Challenge
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Social Organic Reach Is Trending to Zero: How to Meet the Challenge

10y Roger Katz

Social Organic Reach Is Trending to Zero: How to M...

Social networks are maturing and evolving by answering the need to monetize the value they are creating. Brands need to mature and evolve, too. Read M...

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Google+ Death Would Be a Burden Lifted
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Google+ Death Would Be a Burden Lifted

10y Paul Chaney

Google+ Death Would Be a Burden Lifted

Although Google+ has some virtues, on the whole it would be a burden lifted to not have to think about including it in the social media mix. Read More...

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Social Media Content Marketing: Trash the Content Calendar and Post Really Great Stuff
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Social Media Content Marketing: Trash the Content Calendar and Post Really ...

10y Krista Neher

Social Media Content Marketing: Trash the Content ...

In a cluttered social media world, good isn't good enough anymore. Content has to be great if you want to break through, drive shares, and get noticed...

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Brand, Expert, and Social Content — Successful Content Marketing Needs All Three
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Brand, Expert, and Social Content — Successful Content Marketing Needs All ...

10y Roger Katz

Brand, Expert, and Social Content — Successful Con...

The combination of brand, expert, and social content results in fresh, interesting content that appeals to a variety of audiences at all points in the...

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Beyond Storytelling
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Beyond Storytelling

10y Chris Pile

Beyond Storytelling

Storytelling for companies is outmoded, according to Ty Montague, who advocates "storydoing" as the way forward. Read More...

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Breaking Down Pinterest’s Updated Policies and What This Means for Marketers
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Breaking Down Pinterest’s Updated Policies and What This Means for Marketer...

10y Ekaterina Walter

Breaking Down Pinterest’s Updated Policies and Wha...

With the changes to Pinterest's Acceptable Use Policy, marketers may have to rethink the way they use the social site. The policy update includes modi...

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Market Through Shared Interests and Passions Using Social Media
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Market Through Shared Interests and Passions Using Social Media

10y Paul Chaney

Market Through Shared Interests and Passions Using...

Marketing to people who have similar interests may carry a greater value proposition than marketing to those who don't, even though they may be social...

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The Hierarchy of Social Engagement Value
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The Hierarchy of Social Engagement Value

10y Roger Katz

The Hierarchy of Social Engagement Value

In the hierarchy of social engagement value, simple likes and retweets come at the bottom, followed by sharing of brand-related content, sweepstakes, ...

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The Future of Digital Isn’t in Advertising
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The Future of Digital Isn’t in Advertising

10y Vincent Teo

The Future of Digital Isn’t in Advertising

It's not enough to tell a compelling story. You need to provide easy access to behavioral change and that's where the true value of digital comes in. ...

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Your Corporate Website Is Dead — but Social Audiences Can Bring It Back to Life
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Your Corporate Website Is Dead — but Social Audiences Can Bring It Back to ...

10y Roger Katz

Your Corporate Website Is Dead — but Social Audien...

Brands should turn to their social audiences, who can provide content that is authentic, constantly changing, and often beautiful and unexpected, to i...

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What’s Up With Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition?
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What’s Up With Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition?

10y Paul Chaney

What’s Up With Facebook’s WhatsApp Acquisition?

The real reason for the acquisition is that any site that moves people away from dependence on Facebook also chips away at its ability to sell ads, wh...

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Use Social Media to Flip the Sales and Marketing Funnel
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Use Social Media to Flip the Sales and Marketing Funnel

10y Paul Chaney

Use Social Media to Flip the Sales and Marketing F...

Social media can be used to flip the sales and marketing funnel and prompt customers to do much of the marketing and sales for your brand. Read More...

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$4 Million for 30 Seconds -- Will Brands Continue Scoring with #Hashtags After the Big Game?
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$4 Million for 30 Seconds -- Will Brands Continue Scoring with #Hashtags Af...

10y Roger Katz

$4 Million for 30 Seconds -- Will Brands Continue ...

During last year's Super Bowl, many brands embraced hashtags as a way to promote fan participation and prolong the conversation -- will this trend con...

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2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers
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2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers

10y Aaron Kahlow

2014 Digital Marketing Winners & Losers

These 5 key factors will separate those that make big gains in their digital & social media marketing efforts from those that will not in the pivo...

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The Growing Social Media Power of Women and Marketing Strategies For Reaching Them
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The Growing Social Media Power of Women and Marketing Strategies For Reachi...

10y Ekaterina Walter

The Growing Social Media Power of Women and Market...

Twitter may have started as a male-dominate platform, but a recent study by Beevolve.com found that women now outnumber men on Twitter by 6 percent. R...

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The Blueprint for a Real Content Marketing Plan
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The Blueprint for a Real Content Marketing Plan

10y Aaron Kahlow

The Blueprint for a Real Content Marketing Plan

Aaron Kahlow shares his cliff notes, down and dirty version of a content marketing blueprint, with everything important for content marketing in 2014....

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Binge Watching: The End of Second Screen Social Sharing?
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Binge Watching: The End of Second Screen Social Sharing?

10y Paul Chaney

Binge Watching: The End of Second Screen Social Sh...

Even though interaction may not take place in real-time, marketers can leverage viewer interest by participating in program-related conversations and ...

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