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You want people to “get” social media. You’re new to this realm but excited about the possibilities. You get frustrated at the misunderstandings that swirl about.
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Inspired by Matt McGee’s Twitter list on The Local Search Industry I thought it would be great to start putting together a list of our own on the B2B Marketing & Lead Generation “Twitterati” (The word that I just came up with for the who is who on Twitter). Twitter has been a great source of communication, networking and also keeping up with the l
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Everyone wants to know how to succeed in an online world of blogs, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The key is to understanding how your offline networking skills still apply in a social media world.
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The Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost and time. Social tools like blogs and social networking sites are helping crowds form around very discrete topics.
But what is missing from these crowds are leaders. Like any social network that you may join you have those that join and just lurk, those that maybe make a comment or contr
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Let the Motrin ad backlash be a lesson to those who think ‘viral’ is always a good thing.
Viral equals a positive message. There can be good viral campaigns and bad viral campaigns. The reputation crisis which detonated this past weekend which was witnessed by just about every single mom-blogger existent in the blogosphere gives us the bad vers
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of networking, and what impact leveraging your small business networks has on your business.
Darren Rowse @ Problogger.net put together a great post (and nice graphic) detailing what makes up his social media network at Problogger, which looked something like this...
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Social media tools, such as blogs, Twitter and Facebook, represent the next big thing for growing businesses to get the word out about their products and services. So what does this mean for traditional public relations? Some bloggers have gone so far as to pronounce PR dead in the water. No surprise PR folks don't want to hear that, so they gath
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As social media has experienced a meteoric rise, it has given birth to a new form of marketing, social influence marketing, which focuses on engaging consumers on their own terms—what they want, where they want, and in the language and format of their choosing. The question that continues to haunt marketers, though, is what do they want?
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It’s not easy. Twitter, for most people, is the chance to engage with like-minded people, or geographically similar people, or otherwise to align your interests along certain lines. Most people have a hundred, or a few hundred. Some folks feel the crush of too many tweets at around 300-1000 followers. Still others don’t follow back that many peopl
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When you hear the term Generation Y, what do you think of? iPods? Instant messaging? Online communities? If so, you’re on track. But as a B2B marketer, you should add target market to that list. And if you don’t think this demographic is part of your audience, think again.
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While the principles and advice in that column apply to all of the "big three" search engines, there's one QS factor that's only part of Google AdWords: the Account Quality Score. It affects keyword minimum bids -- the bid prices Google says are the lowest ones Google will accept in order for a keyword to be eligible for ad display. Late last
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This is the Networking 101 guide. Networking tips on how to successfully build relationships with other bloggers and benefit from those relationships
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The Internet. How? By making more information available online, our habits are changing. We’re teaching one another new tricks and evolving together. We’re sharing more stories by way of social networking. We’re learning new ways for doing the same old things. We’re willing to be talked into most anything, especially if we read it on the web, i
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So if you haven’t jumped on the social networking bandwagon yet, here are the FIVE simple steps you need to follow to get started.
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Should small/local businesses bother with social media? Or is local search where it’s at — targeting potential customers in their own cities and towns? The good news is that small business owners don’t have to choose one or the other. Listed below are eight sites at the intersection of social media and local search.
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