TechCrunch
Watch out TwitPic, Flickr is finally waking up to the power of letting users share links to their photos over Twitter. Flickr members can now sign up for the Flickr Twitter Beta, which allows them to send out a Tweet whenever they upload a new photo via email. Here is an example from a Twitter employee (see screenshot), w (Read More)
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Most business owners are interested in the marketing benefits of using social media but become quickly confused because they are trying to build friends, create fan pages, set up Twitter accounts, set up LinkedIn profiles, etc. Are you beginning to see the mistake here?The business owner (interested in marketing) has begun (Read More)
: This is a great article Charles. I really love the point about network with prospects rather than networking to get prospects. After all if you put out entertaining, enlightening, or educational content prospects will find their way back to our site where we can network till our heart's content.
Mashable!
Social media is a relatively new phenomenon, but Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon and other social media websites have become an increasingly important source of website traffic. This also creates a massive demand for data related to social media. Where are users coming from? What topics excite them? These are questions tha (Read More)
TechCrunch
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In it, he argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising. “The problem is not the medium, the problem is the message, and the fact that it is (Read More)
: It is a long post. However much depends on other medium available for advertising. Mobile internet browsing is on a rise and you will find advertisements in this area.
Net users do not click banner advertising but when they want to buy a product, they recall it.
I have noticed the word "Save $ 130" being used to market new products for a short time ie product is offered 1/3rd the price. A good campaign would lead to fall in advertisement budget but improve sales.
Regards,
Santosh Puthran
See example Cut your ad budget by word Save in the campaign
: There is also the behavioral targeting solution: Companies like wunderloop allow marketers to make ads fit the internet user’s centers of interest, the information collected remaining anonymous. Because ads are personalized and relevant to each internet user, campaigns can see a 400% click increase. A man will never see an ad for a lip stick unless he is looking for one. It is important to give access to internet user information that actually interests them.
: This article is BS. Advertising is alive and well, on and offline. Advertising will always exist online and it will only grow larger with more and more users coming online every day.
ReadWriteWeb
In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that's exactly what's occurring. According (Read More)
: interesting but not really clear who the survey group was. >250 employees could mean 250-100,000. a $100k budget for a fortune 500 company to spend on social media is nothing.
: "According to a new Forrester Research survey of 145 global interactive marketers in both B2B and B2C companies with more than 250 employees, the use of social media as a marketing tool is on the rise. What's more, Forrester reports that over 50% of marketers said they will be increasing their spending on social media marketing in the coming months."
Submitted by Darknight247:
Having gotten closer to “the last mile” of the Internet, I’ve come to observe that in most situations the local sales organizations of the incumbent media are more encumbrance than asset. (Read More)
: This is an overstated article. Its true, social media is important to the exposure of every organization. I like what it has to say, but it could have been presented in smaller increments. Thanks for the information. Alice Stanforth Remember, we are thinking of you, at www.thinkingofyouinc.com.
ZDNet Blogs
As a journalist I work with a lot of PR people because they help me get my job done. These days many PR people have to also work with bloggers and also advise their clients on how best to make use of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and any other social media.I recently met a senior PR person who says she advises clients about soci (Read More)
: Wow, I did learn that social media or marketing is about relationships, and once I applied this, I began seeing a big difference in my marketing efforts. Don't pitch people, get to know them first.
Submitted by Darknight247:
It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr; your online personality is not only part of your overall brand, it becomes an interactive experience for you and your business. So, who is the face or voice of your brand and what do they share? It’s a very important decision in and of itself. (Read More)