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Just what is an “organic” strategy? By some definitions, it is an inbound marketing strategy, centered around word of mouth and through engagement. But MarketingTech founder Douglas Karr does not believe it is enough. Karr is also the president and CEO of DK New Media, and as he described, at least one client has invested marketing dollars in just the one strategy—organic growth. Karr likened an † [...]

How to: Get the most out of Twitter | Find groups you like on LinkedIn

How to Get the Most Out of Twitter Just cultivate 100 true fans, writes Mediabistro’s All Twitter. “If you can keep 100 people happy, excited, buzzing, giddy and enthusiastic about YOU, then these people will become your evangelists. They will become your marketers, and your PR team. Your army. And they’re far more valuable than the professionals you’re paying to do this for you now.”   [...]

How to: Create custom tabs for Facebook Pages | Decide between Groupon and LivingSocial

How to Create Custom Tabs for Facebook Pages Creating custom tabs within a Facebook page encourages users to interact with a page. But creating one can be difficult if you are not well versed in HTML or CSS, writes Exploring Social Media. It points to ShortStack http://www.shortstackapp.com/ as a tool that makes the process easier. It works by creating an account us  [...]

How to: Publish scores for a Facebook user | Find the best people to follow on Twitter

How to Publish Scores for a Facebook User Facebook just made several enhancements to Apps on Face book - one of which allows developers to publish scores and achievements in the app. In this blog post Facebook explains how its Graph API for achievements and scores work. Briefly, these stories c  [...]

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How to: Set up a Foursquare brand page | Reconcile data from different analytical tools

How to Set Up a Foursquare Brand Page Lisa Barone at Small Business Trends walks readers through this process. FourSquare started letting business owners create official brand pages in January but most SMB firms found they couldn’t participate because their following wasn’t large enough. When Foursquare   [...]

How to: Create and manage test users with Facebook | Submit URLs to Google with Fetch as Googlebot

How to Create and Manage Test Users with Facebook Facebook has introduced new functionality for developers to create and add test users to an app from the developer site. Test users are invisible user accounts associated with an app created for the purpose of testing its functionality, Chris Dentel explains in this blog post - in short, they are not visib  [...]

How to: Use display to best support search ads | Connect LinkedIn and Twitter

How to Use Display to Best Support Search Ads Marin Software outlines five steps in this blog post, including a focus on performance. Identifying which sites and keywords are producing a knock on effect enables the marketer to establish areas of focus and understand any correlation between metrics. If increasing spend on certain targeted display channels appear to be dr  [...]

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Closing Bell: Google search optimized for tablets | Facebook launches bug bounty

Search: Google Search optimized for iPads, Android tablets. Local business site challenges Google ranking. Mobile Computing: Android Market update al  [...]

How To: Get +1 to work faster | Track Mentions Of Links Shared On Twitter

How to Get +1 to Work Faster Google has introduced two updates that make the +1 button and the page loading it faster. One requires nothing from the user: it is a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster. Google has also introduced an asynchronous snippet that allows the web page to continue loading while the browser downloads the +1 JavaScript. "By loading thes  [...]

How to: Sync your Facebook Page updates with Twitter | Get the best mix of technology to optimize a mobile landing page

How to Sync Your Facebook Page Updates With Twitter As a disclaimer, Inside Facebook starts out this post warning readers that it shouldn't do this. Read here for the reasons why. That said, for firms that insist on standardizing content to both platforms, Inside Facebook says it is easy: navigate to www.facebook.com/twitter and click the Link a Pa  [...]

How to: Track link click-throughs on Quora | Create heatmap tables in Excel

How to Track Link Click-Throughs on Quora Actually, you can’t. Quora does not let you track links in answers, writes Chris Thomson, Quora administrator in response to a question on, where else?, Quora. Using your own links for tracking purposes is not allowed, he reminds readers, but it does tell you how many times a question or answer has been viewed. To find that informati  [...]

How to: Deal with Klout | Best use QR codes in a campaign

How Not to Tweak Your Klout Score The Klout score on social influence has been gaining traction - enough so that both people and marketers are interested in seeing what they can do to tweak their number. This is what not to do, writes Business Grow.   [...]

Closing Bell: Apple lowers iAd buy to $300K | Coalition to fight piracy | Free apps drive more revenue

Online Ad Market: Apple lowers minimum iAd buy to $300,000. Social Media: How to combine your Facebook and Google+ feeds. Anti-piracy: Coalition   [...]

The Golden Road (to Unlimited Branding)

While 1960s countercultural jam band pioneers The Grateful Dead do not have an image associated with the traditional business world, they do have much to teach marketers, writes Copyblogger.  [...]

Pepco Follows Social Media Playbook in Power Outage

This past weekend more than 301,000 customers in Maryland and the District of Columbia lost power after unusually harsh thunderstorms hit the area. The storm, which clocked in at 90 miles an hour in some parts of the area, was over within 20 minutes. The power outage, though, lasted for days with service not restored for many until Thursday. Customers quickly became disgruntled with the utility, posting their ire on Twitter and in the blogosphere. Unlike other PR crises - last winter for exam  [...]

The Pros and Cons of Crowdsourcing a Marketing Campaign

Crowdsourcing is expected to be one of the top trends for marketers this year, according to the digital experts at Last Exit. The concept certainly resonates with cash strapped companies: tap an online community for ideas on how to advance a brand, or develop a product or, in many cases, both. However as the concept gains traction thanks to success stories - Netflix developed   [...]

New SocNet Tools Seek Missing Revenue Link

CMOs are seeking better ways to link social media advertising and investments with related revenues. Some companies, most notably Procter & Gamble in the UK, have begun experimenting with "pay for engagement" strategies. In September, the company decided to pay publishers when a consumer downloads a game or otherwise indicates he or she has interacted with the site instead basing compensation merely on site visits or number of eyeballs. (  [...]

How-To: Track Rep and Keywords from a Unified Feed

In a media climate in which anyone can publish material about anything they like, anytime they wish, it is crucial for marketers to keep a close eye on what others are saying about their brands. To simplify the process of scanning thousands of blogs, review sites, "tweets," forums and social networks, Search Engine Journal's Ann Smarty recommends Feed Killer, a simple  [...]

How-To: Lessons Worth Learning from Twitter's Success

This How-To was syndicated from Rohit Bhargava's Influential Marketing Blog. Mr. Bhargava is the SVP at Ogilvy PR and author of Personality Not Included. By any measure, the growth and popularity of Twitter has been phenomenal. To say that Twitter has   [...]