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Marketers are ready to adapt their processes to content strategy, but the change will be stark

March 30, 2010

Edward Boches of Creativity Unbound asked some influential folks who went to SxSW what was their one big takeaway from the conference.
Kristina Halverson, CEO of Brain Traffic spoke to the readiness on the client side to make process changes that will enable content marketing strategies.
“My takeaway? Clients are ready to coordinate their currently siloed interactive [...]

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The Kelsey Group examines NCI’s DigitalSherpa initiative

March 12, 2010

Over the past year, the team at NCI has been developing a social marketing service under the umbrella of Digital Sherpa for local advertisers. The service was launched commercially into the multi-family market last August and into the home design market in December.
Our attention over the past months has been focused on executing on [...]

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Social media adoption by small business tops 75%, U Maryland survey shows

March 2, 2010

eMarketer shared an interesting piece of research from the University of Maryland’s business school this week.
The survey looked at the use of social media tactics by small business.
The key takeaway: Small businesses are rapidly adopting social media. 75% have created a company presence on sites like Facebook and 69% say that they actively [...]

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Why targeting Influencers online will leverage your Community of Interest

January 12, 2010

E-marketer shared some research today from Synovate on behalf of the forum-based ad network PostRelease that details the “influencer” behavior of Internet users.
The research was on a base of 1000 adults, divided fairly evenly between men and women. These respondents were high-influencers, with 68% playing some kind of role in a purchasing decision.
The number [...]

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A social media case study: Spynergy Cycling Studio

January 8, 2010

Bill Pryor, a colleague of mine, posted a great comment to my post on the ground level view of social media the other day. Somehow, the comment disappeared. Bill gives a very detailed look at just how social media has helped his business.
Here’s the comment:

Dan, as an SMB owner myself, I own [...]

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Local business & social media: A ground level view

January 6, 2010

Over the past four months I’ve had the opportunity to visit a number of markets around the country to give my presentation “The Hidden Power of Social Media: How to Improve Your Networking, Increase Your Web Traffic & Generate More Leads Just by Being Yourself.”
More than 700 people have attended these sessions. The attendees [...]

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What is your Community of Interest & how can you use social media tools to help tend it?

December 30, 2009

A core element of successfully leveraging social media to build your business or personal brand is to identify and target your Community of Interest.
This simple starting point is too often overlooked when people begin to incorporate social media tools into their marketing.
What is your Community of Interest? It is a group of people who [...]

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