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Process: A Pragmatic Approach to Social Business

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If you are among the few remaining outliers who still haven't made the leap into social media but know you must, reading this post and the sage advice within is an excellent first step. Read More »

6 Parts of Your Company That Should be Listening to Social Conversations

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Social media listening is not just a task for your customer care reps. These are discussions that your marketing and PR team, R&D team, Sales folks and others need to hear. Read on to understand who should be listening and the benefits of why. Read More »

5 Ways to Make Twitter Less Noisy

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Twitter is noisy and likely to only get more loud with the projected increase in adoption. Here are 5 tips to turn down the volume. Read More »

7 Ways to Get Your Blog Posts Shared On Facebook

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Read on for 7 surefire tips to get your blog content shared on the world's most popular social network. From recommendations on best day of the week to post to using digits there is bound to be something you aren't doing now that you could be. Read More »

Why you shouldn’t join every conversation about your brand online

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We hear quite a bit about online brand reputation management (particularly with the proliferation of social media monitoring tools available today) and to that end the following post seems to run counter-intuitive to what most marketers have adopted... Read More »

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5 tips to increase engagement on your Facebook Page

Posted by: The Next Web on February 2, 2012
Advising brands to get active on social media is, in the words of Black Eyed Peas, “so 2000 and late.” Every brand smaller or bigger has at least a Facebook…

5 tips to increase engagement on your Facebook Page

Posted by: The Next Web on February 2, 2012
Advising brands to get active on social media is, in the words of Black Eyed Peas, “so 2000 and late.” Every brand smaller or bigger has at least a Facebook…

Savvy Speaks: Tips for Engaging in LinkedIn

Posted by: savvyb2b on January 31, 2012
LinkedIn is sort of the dark horse of social networking; just about every professional we know is on it, but it doesn’t get a lot of attention in the media compared to its flashier cousins, Facebook and Twitter. How do you use LinkedIn to your best professional advantage? The...

How to Build Online Trust through Reviews from Your Social Media Community

Posted by: Web Success Team on January 31, 2012
Building online trust is critical for an online business. Since your customers don’t often get to meet you face-to-face, in order to sell your products and services you have to build trust and confidence through your online voice instead.

Sharing Your Way to B2B Social Media Lead Generation

Posted by: MarketingProfs on January 31, 2012
Social media has always involved sharing quality content with your network, but in its current state, B2B companies need to understand how social media can connect with their sales cycle. Companies need to find prospective customers for their products and services, and they need...

The Automation of Social Media

Posted by: Search Engine People Blog on January 31, 2012
Over-automating your social media leaves you open to numerous potential problems. Post from: Search Engine People SEO Blog The Automation of Social Media

Google+ Growing Your Social Network: Quantity vs. Quality

Posted by: Search Engine Land on January 31, 2012
There is an ongoing discussion trying to better understand what Google+ brings to the table. Recently, the stats were released that Google+ now has 90M users and about 60% log in every day. Will Google+ ever be that “Facebook killer” that everyone …

Facebook Timeline Likely Coming to Business Pages Near You

Posted by: Hubspot Blog on January 31, 2012
Earlier this week, Facebook announced it will finally be rolling out Facebook Timeline to all users in the next few weeks, replacing the design of existing personal profile pages. While Timeline won’t directly affect the look of your Facebook business page (yet), the rollout...

One Size Fits All Social Media – Is There Such a Thing?

Posted by: Social Media Explorer Blog on January 24, 2012
Are the big four right for everyone or is there a smarter way to spend your social media time?

Not Lovin’ It: 5 Ways McDonalds Could Have Prevented a Hashtag Nightmare (& How You Can Avoid One)

Posted by: MarketingProfs on January 24, 2012
Like an awkward actor on stage, McDonalds has found itself at the mercy of hecklers. McDonalds promoted a tweet for feel-good stories regarding the brand, #McDStories, only to find the hashtag taken over by Twitter users with a sense of the absurd. Now, #McDStories serves as a case...