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Wiley Cerilli: Social Media Marketing: 5 Restaurants That Get It - 0 views

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    Great examples of restaurants using social media
James Hodgins

5 Ways Retailers Are Winning Big With Facebook Commerce - 0 views

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    Great strategies and examples for using Facebook for retail, going beyond setting up an ecommerce page.
James Hodgins

Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Company Blog - 0 views

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    Great strategy and things to think about for any business blog
James Hodgins

QR Codes Gaining Prominence Thanks to Few Big Players | Digital - Advertising Age - 0 views

  • Macy's is behind the most visible QR-education effort, with a 30-second spot now running nationally. The spot, which was cut down from a demo posted to Facebook, YouTube and Macy's own site, shows shoppers how to use the codes and explains what they'll get access to when they scan one with their phone.
  • There are abundant in-store signs and employees are armed with more than 100,000 lanyards containing instructions on how to use the codes.
  • The Backstage Pass videos have attracted anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand views on YouTube, with a video featuring Kelly Osbourne grabbing just shy of 3,500 views; the video demo of QR codes has snared 2,200 views.
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  • the use of QR codes
  • resulted in the most-successful sweepstakes campaign it's run. More than 20% of the 25,000 entries it received during a four-week period came directly from QR code scans.
  • Best Buy has also created a "Live Mobile Scan Map" at bbyscan.com/map which tracks the items scanned in stores across the country.
  • Mr. Knisely said the company has even been experimenting with QR codes as a polling tool. A sign hanging in Best Buy headquarters asks employees to scan a code corresponding with how they're feeling. One code is positioned inside an image of a thumbs up, the other a thumbs down. When the code is scanned, employees see how many others are in a good or bad mood. Mr. Knisely says that sort of tool could be used to ask customers about their experience in the store.
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    Macy's Sweepstakes Best Buy Polling Live QR scanning tracker for Best Buy
James Hodgins

Most Marketers Clueless About Social Media Conversations | Social Media Examiner - 0 views

  • he vast majority of respondents have created a customized experience for their social channels. (Only 9% admitted to not customizing any of their channels.)
  • A vast majority of marketers (7 out of 10) say they have little understanding of social media conversations surrounding their brand.
  • About half of the marketers surveyed claim their budget will increase slightly, while about 9% see their budgets greatly increasing.
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  • About half of the marketers surveyed expect their social/digital marketing expenditures will increase slightly while 23% see their expenditures greatly increasing.
  • Almost 40% of those surveyed said they are using a few ad-hoc tools and 30% said they are reporting regularly to management. In addition, almost 30% claim they have very little understanding of the social media conversations happening around their brand or those of their clients.
  • A little over half of those surveyed (57%) feel their brand (or client’s brand) is somewhat at risk and are taking action to fix the challenge. 13% said they know they need to better engage but haven’t taken action and 7% admitted there were major concerns, but didn’t know where to start to fix the issues. Lastly, about a quarter of the marketers claimed their brand (or those of their clients) was not at risk and they were fully engaged with their customers.
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    #1: How will marketing budgets change over next year? #2: How will social media budgets change over next year? #3: Do you monitor social media conversations? #4: Are you as engaged with customers as you should be?
James Hodgins

Where Are Social Media Marketers Seeing the Most Success? - 0 views

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    Most success with Message Boards, Online video, Blogging and Facebook. Also importance of SM tools to business has increased to 86%
James Hodgins

Social Media - Small Business Marketing: Social, Search Fastest-Growing Channels : Mark... - 0 views

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    Use of Various Business Solutions Usage of Social Media Accomplishments Using Social Media Awareness and Usage of Mobile Marketing
James Hodgins

9 Ways to Transform Your Website Into a Social Media Hub | Social Media Examiner - 0 views

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    #1: Add social media buttons to your home page #2: Connect your blog with your website #3: Embed videos on your website #4: Make your website shareable #5: Add your presentations to your website #6: Socially bookmark new content #7: Add a Facebook Like box to your website #8: Feed your website #9: Use QR codes to drive traffic
James Hodgins

Which Social Sites Are Best for Which Marketing Outcomes? [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

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    Compares platforms for Customer Communication, Brand Exposure, Traffic to Your Site and SEO
James Hodgins

Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki | Dose of Digital - 1 views

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    1 Brand Sponsored Patient Communities 2 Patient Communities (Non-Brand Controlled) 3 Healthcare Professional Communities 4 Facebook 5 YouTube 6 Twitter (Pharma & Healthcare Companies) 7 Blogs (Pharma & Healthcare Companies) 8 MySpace 9 Miscellaneous 10 Wikis 11 Non-English Based Programs 12 Blogs (Patients and Caregivers) 13 Blogs (Industry Observers) 14 Twitter (Industry Observers) 15 Marketing Professional Communities 16 Additional Resources
James Hodgins

4 Innovative Ways to Use Web Video for Small Business - 0 views

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    Cool ideas on how smaller and unconventional businesses are using video.
James Hodgins

Facebook Brand Pages: "Marketers are missing an opportunity here." - 0 views

  • 84 have corporate-run Facebook pages
  • Most brand pages offered new content or comments nearly every day (average of 24 posts per month) and actively responded to consumer questions (66 percent). They also actively solicited fan comments (82 percent). Additionally, many posted branded video content (not user generated) to their pages (88 percent).
  • only 39 percent soliciting photo submissions, 33 percent promoting contests, 39 percent posting polls and quizzes for fun, and an additional 32 percent posting surveys to gain consumer feedback.
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  • need to create experiences
  • The 84 official Facebook pages boasted an average of 1.8 million fans. In a single month, fans contributed on average 857 fan posts to each corporate wall, and each corporate wall post averaged 1,456 Likes and 157 comments.
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    Even among the biggest and best brands on Facebook, there is only a .09% feedback from fans.
James Hodgins

Questions to Ask Before Starting in Social Media | Danny Brown - 1 views

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    Good basic questions to keep in mind anytime we talk with a client about social media.
James Hodgins

HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event Marketing - 0 views

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    Great list of strategies for using QR Codes.
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