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Social Media Marketing (Web 2.0 Marketing) For Fun and Business
Jun 17th
Social media marketing uses social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to engage with prospects on an ongoing basis. Social media sites encourage discussions, feedback and sharing of information between you and your prospects.
Social media marketing has really sprouted its wings within the last couple of years And its no wonder, YouTube has about 28,000,000 viewers and Facebook has over 100,000,000 users…and over 50% log in daily. That’s why social media marketing is essential to your businesses success.
You’ll see immediate benefits like prospect awareness of your “brand”, you’ll become closer to your customers and find out more about their needs, you’ll build customer loyalty by relationship marketing and social media marketing is cheap but very powerful.
There is several different types of social media marketing, from social media networks like Facebook and Twitter to social bookmarking sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon and it can easily overwhelm you if you don’t have a strategic social media marketing plan.
One important point before you jump into the social media marketing area. There’s a saying that “When a promoter moves in, the prospects move out”. What that means is that you should not use social media only to promote your business. More >
I want a marketing firm to handle the social media for my company. How much would that cost?
Apr 29th
I know Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are great ways to help promote my company, but I don’t have the time to learn them. How much would a marketing firm charge me to run my social media?
Web 2.0: the new election superweapon
Apr 13th
Web 2.0: the new election superweapon From Twitter and Facebook to viral ads and crowdsourcing, technology appears to offer parties powerful new ways to engage voters The phrase is fast becoming the most overused cliche of the 2010 election, yet it all starts from a misunderstanding. When the pollster Deborah Mattinson predicted a ” Mumsnet election”, endless speculation about middle-class mothers’ voting plans followed. But what …
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Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves (Hardcover)
Feb 21st
From Publishers Weekly
In this clear-eyed collection of case studies, Fast Company contributing writer and NYU journalism professor Penenberg examines the engine driving the growth of web 2.0 businesses like Flickr, YouTube and eBay to Facebook and Twitter: the viral loop. The concept behind a viral loop is simple-in order to use the product, you have to spread it, thus creating massive, user-driven growth cycles-after all, Penenberg explains, social networks like Facebook are wo (more…)