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Archive for April, 2010

It’s pretty obvious by now that using social media isn’t just simply setting up a Twitter account and a Facebook page. It isn’t just about broadcasting your message or giving your sales spiel over and over again. And it isn’t always easy to measure the return for your efforts once you do get your hands dirty with social media and marketing campaigns. But it is important that you do attempt to measure the results, whether you’re using the information to adjust your tactics to those getting better results, or you are asked to justify the time and money spent on it. Read More→

Categories : Social Media
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Twitter @AnywhereWith just a few lines of code, you can integrate Twitter’s new @Anywhere feature into your business blog or website, promoting a more engaged readership and enabling follows and Tweets right from your site!

“Twitter @Anywhere is an easy-to-deploy solution for bringing the Twitter communication platform to your site. @Anywhere promotes a more engaged user base for your site. Use @Anywhere to add Follow Buttons, Hovercards, linkify Twitter usernames, and build deeper integrations with “Connect to Twitter.” “

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Categories : Twitter Uses
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Mobile geolocation applications such as Foursquare have a lot of potential to increase consumer engagement at local businesses, and many small businesses may be overlooking the possibilities there for building loyalty and growing their customer base. With a little thought, mobile marketing campaigns used in conjunction with Seth’s thought about margins might just provide the leverage needed for a small local business to go from surviving to thriving. Read More→

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Facebook PagesFacebook has announced some changes in the works for its Pages feature, with the term ‘Become a Fan’ being replaced by ‘Like’, and the term ‘Fans’ to be changed to ‘Connections’. The world’s largest social networking site has also mentioned a plan for the ‘Like’ button to be able to be implemented in publisher’s content on their own websites, not just Facebook. Read More→

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There are so many ways to connect our different social media platforms together these days – almost too many. For example, we can feed our Twitter updates to Google Buzz, send our StumbleUpon reviews to FriendFeed, feed our YouTube favorites to Twitter, and our Diggs to Facebook.

But is sending all of our activity to every single platform helpful? Is it even ’social’? Or is the shotgun approach to social media causing us to lose traction with our followers and fans? Read More→

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