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Jan 5 2010

Essential reading for online community managers

Social Media - 7 months ago - cgseo

Image by austinevan via Flickr A good friend of mine started a new job for the new year – working in social media for a UK charity. She asked me what reading I could recommend for somebody looking to…

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Essential reading for online community managers


Internet Marketing- Why You Need It

Internet Marketing - 7 months ago - admin

You have a business. You have a website. Now you need a marketing plan. Why? Because even though it might be easy for customers to find you offline, it’s not going to be so easy online. There is no roaming around or ‘happening upon’ certain pages online. With billions of websites out there, customers aren’t just going to stumble in that often. You need a solid plan that you can rely on.

Social networking, article marketing, link building, blogging, and keyword optimization are going to be important tools in your marketing. You can find a variety of tools to use and use them how you’d like. The only thing to figure out is what works best and what you like.

If you choose, you can hire professional marketing services to help you out. Internet marketing and running a business give you so much to think about that it can easily become overwhelming. However, hiring someone else to take care of your marketing could prove to save you a lot of stress.

Choosing a marketing company isn’t really complicated. You just need to find a company that you can get along with and who is going to do what is in your best interest when it comes to marketing. The marketing service should help you to determine which marketing tools are best, and understand how each one works.

Without proper marketing, you cannot have proper success. People won’t come visit your site unless you tell them that it’s there. You can’t throw a party and invite no one, and then expect to have guests. You have to send out invitations. Marketing works the same way. The tools are your invitations, and often your only link to potential customers.

Targeted marketing works better than general marketing, too. What is targeted marketing? Well, it’s a tool that you can use that focuses on marketing quality instead of quantity. When you focus on 50 people who WILL use your product/service, you will get better results than if you focus on 200 people that might or might not use it.

Advertise where your audience is. Even if it cuts down your visibility, it will actually be more helpful because more people will actually see your advertising. It doesn’t matter which tools you use, either, as long as you choose the tools that suit you best.

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2010 – Welcome to the Age of Customer Service

Social Media - 7 months ago - admin

At the end of the last decade we saw Amazon snap up Zappos for $928 Million. Combining two of the most customer focused organizations I am aware of on the web and making one of the most powerful cus…

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Just because I buy a product does not mean I want have a relationship with it

Social Media - 7 months ago - admin

While brands still try hard to “crack the Social Media code,” most seem to understand consumers no longer find the prospect of being friends with a brand more engaging than the single click it took to…

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Hello Rabbits!

Social Media - 7 months ago - admin

I rarely put posts up where I talk about myself, but this will be the exception. That’s because from today I’ve got a new job.  The former digital division of Cow has been hived off into a sepa…

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Benefits of Running Polls on Twitter

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If you’re “on Twitter”, no doubt you’ve noticed different Tweeple running polls from time to time. We ran our first poll on Twitter over 3 years ago which resulted in the post, “Guide to Twitter a…

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Quoted: China Daily on Social Media

Social Media - 7 months ago - admin

Tiffany Wong recently published the first of a multi-part series in China Daily on Social Media, speaking with myself and Jonathon Zhu, who runs the Hong Kong Internet Project. Zhu has come out with…

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Quoted: China Daily on Social Media