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Five Reasons You Need to Focus on Earned Media

May 18th, 2011

The Most Trusted Information Comes Not From You, but From Your Customers

Ad Age

Marketers currently face a barrage of challenges and shifts in the way consumers engage with their brands. But earned media is gaining momentum, and for good reason. Today, it’s earned media impressions that are building brands and paving the way for an open dialogue between companies and their customers.

If you’ve been ignoring this trend, then you’re missing a critical piece of the revenue puzzle.

Here are five reasons to start thinking about it.

1. Earned media is the most trusted and credible form of content for a brand
The most trusted source of information about your company comes not from you, but from your highly satisfied customers — otherwise known as your brand’s advocates — in the form of the content they create such as reviews, recommendations, ratings and stories about their experiences. Read more

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Foursquare co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley (part 2)

May 13th, 2011

Foursquare’s co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley discusses how foursquare merchants are driving the sales force – crowd sourced sales force.

Merchants have never had tools like foursquare before and are willing to experiment with these new platforms. This new generation of start ups are allowing merchants to retain existing customers and attract new customers. Watch the interview below

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Can Brands Maintain Engagement on Facebook?

May 9th, 2011

eMarketer

“Likes” can go down as fan bases increase

Growing a base of Facebook fans is often a major objective for social media marketers. Whether through special offers available only to fans, the promise of exclusive content or simply through a compelling campaign that reaches already-loyal customers, marketers are building up their presence on Facebook pages and hoping consumers flock there as well.

But as fan bases grow, the danger increases that the larger community will be less close-knit and engaged than before. Link-sharing solutions provider Visibli analyzed Facebook pages with at least 100,000 “likes” and found that for brands and media organizations, pages with more fans received fewer “likes” on each individual post. Engagement went down as the number of people involved went up. Read more

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Top Tweeters: Social media champs

May 6th, 2011

Fortune

This group of companies is all about Tweeting, Facebook Liking and Linking In — among other social media tools — in order to better connect with and serve their customers. See full list

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Email Marketers In Content Business

May 4th, 2011

MediaPost

CAPTIVA ISLAND, Fla. — Meeting some resistance among marketers years ago about a “custom publishing” tack, Joe Pulizzi just re-branded it as “content marketing” and the interest level jumped.

On Wednesday at the MediaPost Email Insider Summit, the founder of the Content Marketing Institute told email marketers that they are in the content business. There is a need to publish that lets customers feel they are receiving valuable information and not just a hard sell. Read more

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Mobile Disconnect: New Burson-Marsteller Study Finds 62 Percent of Fortune 50 Companies Use Mobile Communications to Reach Stakeholders — But Few Promote Their Mobile Presence On Their Corporate Websites

December 16th, 2010

Daily Dog, 12/16/10

Sixty-two percent of Fortune 50 companies are reaching out to their customers and other key stakeholder groups using some form of mobile communications, according to a new study by Burson-Marsteller and its sister firm Proof Integrated Communications. But the research found that only 39 percent of these companies highlight their mobile offerings on their corporate websites. “It is surprising that companies with mobile offerings are not taking advantage of every channel to let stakeholders know about their mobile websites, applications, and SMS tools,” said B.L. Ochman, managing director of emerging media for Proof. “With so many customers accessing the Internet through mobile devices, companies need to promote their mobile offerings with vigor.”

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A Whopping Ninety-Four Percent of Companies Not Yet Using Social Media for Customer Feedback, According to New Study: Few Organizations Mine the Social Media Channel to Improve Customer Satisfaction

December 16th, 2010

Daily Dog, 12/16/10

A new study released this week by enterprise feedback management (EFM) and market research firm MarketTools revealed that 94 percent of companies do not yet use social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to gather customer feedback, despite consumers’ growing engagement with these mediums. The study found that the most common ways companies gather customer feedback are: email/online surveys (51 percent), formal phone surveys (28 percent), and informal phone calls (28 percent). “Despite the fact that social media channels represent a rich, continuous stream of customer feedback, few organizations are equipped to take advantage of this channel,” said Justin Schuster, vice president of enterprise products for MarketTools.

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Guided by Buyers: Four tactics to create a customer-centric sales and marketing strategy

December 15th, 2010

Marketing Sherpa, 12/15/10

The customer comes first. We all know this isn’t always the case, but employing this attitude when looking at the B2B marketing and sales process can really pay off. Benefits include a better integration of Sales and Marketing, which allows Marketing to offer tangible results and a streamlined buying experience for the customer that will lead to more revenue.

One former VP and current business growth consultant has spent more than 30 years working to promote alignment between Marketing, Sales and leadership, and offers four tactics Marketing can use to improve the marketing and sales cycle through a customer-centric approach.

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Dell To Launch Social Media Listening Command Center

December 9th, 2010

Mashable, 12/9/10

Dell’s CEO Michael Dell and CMO Karen Quintos will officially launch the company’s Social Media Listening Command Center today.

We first heard wind of this development in October when Dell’s Vice President of Social Media (social media) and Community Manish Mehta announced that Dell had plans to launch the program at Altimeter’s Rise of Social Commerce Conference. Just more than two months later, that announcement is coming to fruition with the opening of the center.

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What b-to-c tactics can benefit b2b marketers?

December 9th, 2010

BtoB, 12/9/10

Engaging customers and prospects with relevant communications is essential to marketing success. By combining marketing automation technologies often used by business-to-consumer marketers with sophisticated email tactics, b2b marketers can better establish a rich dialogue with individual prospects and customers.

Here are three b-to-c tactics that b2b marketers can incorporate into their programs to more strongly engage with contacts and drive revenue:

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