Social Media Communities Create Markets: How to Build Loyal Tribes of Brand Evangelists

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Building communities takes time, patience and commitment to providing value to members. You must inspire them to engage, share and be part of the heartbeat.

How to Drive Visitors to your Facebook Page Promotion

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You’ve decided to run a promotion on your Facebook Page. You’ve setup the tab and you’ve launched it live. So where is all the traffic?

16 Content Marketing Golden Rules to Increase Social Engagement

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Many business leaders under estimate the work required to develop good content marketing that drives real results. Many think it’s as easy as a simple blog post and you’re done. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Are You Really Ready to Build a New Website or Blog?

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If you want to achieve ROI on your website investment you must know your audience, set goals and implement an integrated strategy to engage your visitors.

Top 25 Social Media Blog Posts of 2012 from @PamMktgNut

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Top 25 social media blog posts of 2012 from our CEO, Pam Moore’s blog on “The Marketing Nut”. Key findings and learnings improve content marketing, increase blog traffic and return on investment.

Social Trust Factor: 10 Tips to Establish Credibility

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When building an online persona and brand usually we start with the most basic aspects including over arching brand, logo, colors, core messages etc.  All of these are foundational to success.  We develop our plan, develop our platform, create and launch our brand presence, integrate social with our business goals and start the social media [...]

Social Media Plan – 10 Steps to Get a Grip

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Do you feel as though your social media program has taken on a life of it’s own? Do you feel the chances of you getting a grip on social media in your lifetime are well… slim to none? Has the social media beast got a hold of your budget, resources, and ROI? Are you at a loss for how to get it back?

Social Media is Still About the People – IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2012 Takeaway

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Yowza, what an amazing experience at the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Orlando last week. IBM seriously rocked our business, social and personal world. They brought home the most important aspect of social media which is the people.

If I Were a Social Chamber of Commerce or Association President

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Associations and Chamber of Commerce organizations hold a soft spot in my heart because they were of course one of the first business networking groups. They have deep roots and have the potential to offer much value to businesses new and old.

34 Social Media Truths in a Nut Shell

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The Social Media Truth series is based on a keynote presentation I did at the Rochester Institute of Technology last year. I have been writing on the core concepts since then and it has served as a foundation for much discussion. I used the content as a test project to practice what I preach, build and execute an integrated plan around one solid piece of content.