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Dark social – for those who aren’t up to speed – is social sharing that creates inbound website traffic from sources that web analytics tools like Google Analytics are not able to track. According to Simply Measured, inbound traffic typically comes from one of the following sources: 
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10 Tips to Align Your Email Marketing and Social Media by Douglas Karr on Marketing Technology
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July 27, 2016 9:50 PM
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An intelligent way to categorize social media efforts.
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How Email Engagement Compares to Social Engagement by Douglas Karr on Marketing Technology
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Click through for details on each, if needed. Decent rules for the road.
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the Modern Marketing Essentials Guide to Social Marketing - a guide which speaks directly to the fact that in 2014 92% of marketers state that social media is important for their business, up from 86% the year before according to the 2014 Social Media Marketing Industry Report—conducted by Social Media Examiner. This scoop comes to you compliments of ineomarketing.com.
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And if needed, a description when you click through. More precise than Brinker's Landscape or IDC's work.
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March 24, 2015 5:47 PM
Great social media marketing resources and well organized... 
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March 27, 2015 8:06 AM
Social media management has grown to become a major business. These are some of the tools used by the professionals. But you too can use them to manage your own accounts. They provide great sources of content and the ability to schedule posts on a variety of social media.
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An excellent guide on the basics to running a highly focused effort that involves LinkedIn. The secret: an independent influencer. Don't forget to use webinars as a part of this effort.
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Digest... Here are five reasons why social media marketing has become overrated. 1. The organic reach is pretty close to zero Look at the two largest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter. According to the Moz Blog, the average life span of a tweet is 18 minutes. Jeff Bullas, a leading social media expert, estimates the organic reach of Facebook is around 2.71 percent, or less.
2. Anyone can buy social media followers. Most of us have probably gotten the tweets that promise thousands of Twitter followers for only $30. It's the same thing with Facebook and most of the other social media platforms. You can buy followers to inflate your numbers.
3. People are tired of being sold to on social media. People log onto social media to see what their niece just did, catch up with friends, watch funny videos, and let friends know what's going on in their life. They realize they will get sold to on social media but there comes a point when it's too much.
4. Social media platforms are theirs, not yours. New York Times best selling author Crystal Paine shared the story of a major setback to her business with Michael Hyatt in an article titled "Don't Build Your Social Media House on a Rented Platform." She had built a huge social media following that she depended on for traffic and new leads. One Facebook algorithm change plummeted her organic reach to between 1 percent and 3 percent. Someone following you on Facebook is Facebook's potential customer, not yours. Yes, they're following you, but Facebook has their name, email address, and controls what they see from you.
5. Email marketing still beats social media marketing any day of the week. This is the main point that I hope you take away from this article. Email marketing is still the best way to reach your present and future customers. Social media provides a great, and mostly "free" way to reach people, but people still respond best to email.
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Social is the path of least resistance. Tackle the hard stuff first, then use Social, e.g., LinkedIn, SlideShare. And paid, not owned.
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October 11, 2014 10:15 PM
The article 5 Reasons Why Social-Media Marketing Is Overrated is an article by Kimanzi Constable that lists and elaborates on five reasons that social media marketing is not as beneficial as it may seem. Basically, the article is explaining that social media marketing still can help businesses, but it should not be the most important part of a marketing strategy.
The first reason why social media marketing is considered not the best is that the “organic reach” is close to zero. The reach to consumers is limited for several factors, and “according to the Moz Blog, the average life span of a tweet is about 18 minutes.” (Constable). The next reason why social media marketing is overrated is because anyone can buy social media followers. Buying social media followers does not general human followers that would be able to interact with marketing tactics and advertisements, rather, computerized followers, or ‘fake’ accounts. Next, people are tired of being sold to on social media. People want to log on to see what their friends and families are up to, not see advertisements and marketing strategies. Number four in the list is that social media platforms are “theirs, not yours.” This point is explaining that the followers a business may have are not just their clients, but also the social media sites. The last and most important reason why social media marketing is overrated is that email marketing still beats social media marketing. Email marketing has a direct target, the virtual mailboxes of billions of people. It’s hard to miss the emails. But social media marketing tactics can go unseen if someone doesn’t log on at the right time, or they can be hidden through filters allowed by social media platforms.
Overall this was an interesting article that provided some great insight for businesses seeking social media marketing tactics. What I took from this is that social media marketing should still be used, but more time and funding should be focused on email marketing, as it is more successful.
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October 14, 2014 12:35 PM
This article is discussing how social media marketing is not the main aspect a company should rely on for their marketing needs. Social media marketing can become overrated if it is not being used properly for the companies needs. Number one, organic reach approach is becoming less successful because research is showing that Facebook posts and Tweets have a short life spam. Number two, buying followers or likes on sites and post is not the best strategy in bringing in a new market. Those paid likes are not measurable in how successful the social media site is for the company that is trying to gain more customers. Number three, people are not trying to be sold on their social media sites. The main reason anyone gets a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., is too keep up to date with their friends and family, not to read sales pitches. If someone is willing to like a companies page they do not want countless posts about their products and how to purchase them. Number four, this idea is interesting because the article is stating that you shouldn’t build your market on a social media site because the social media site is getting all of the business in the end. This means that all of the marketing shouldn’t be done on social media sites and companies should have other types of marketing. Facebook own the customers information when they join the social media platform. Number five, email marketing is more successful than social media marketing. This article states that email’s and email list create a life-long customer for the business. The main idea from this article is that any social media platform that is going to be used for a companies needs to be right for that specific needs and wants of the business.
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Basic/ Digest... -- > Recognise that you need to have the customer’s attention before you can sell, they need to be more than just remotely interested. -- > Respecting the platforms with your content format, and respecting the consumer by creating quality brand interactions is important – simply tweeting vacuous comments or promotional material is not social media marketing. -- > Balance! We must all learn to balance the two-way, value-add storytelling element of social media, where we build community, with the necessary shameless promotion when we must promote and go for the sell. -- > Integration of digital comes via content in the most part, repurposed and reshaped appropriately for different channels and platforms. -- > Amplify with advertising, of course, I’m not saying that stuff’s dead or that SEO is redundant, or even above the line spend should be a crime – but in terms of priorities for the most of us – it’s time we market like it’s 2014 and on the terms of customers first .
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Social marketing needs to have a purpose to engage, not one way communication. Lots of shouting out there, going one way. Not a lot of quality engagements. Question: can you engage in quality communication with a very large audience?
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Excerpt... Only a few of the marketers I interviewed received a green light from their CMOs to move forward with their social marketing proposals. How did they do it? They crafted a "winning" business case that included: Real data. Our successful marketers included insights from sources such as listening platforms, marketing systems, and web analytics. Those that did not have data available turned to third-party research to fill the gaps. Without data, there is no platform to build the business case. Key RaDaR objective(s). An effective business case identifies the key RaDaR objective that helps establish the purpose of your social program or initiative. It answers the questions: Are you trying to extend reach? Provide more depth on your brand and products? Develop relationships with your customers? All of the above? A detailed strategy. A good business cases lists the social marketing tactics that will be implemented. A great business case provides a detailed action plan that will help achieve the stated RaDaR objectives. Key stakeholders. Stakeholders are the pillars that support the entire business case. They are critical to the outcome of the social marketing proposal. Successful marketers never underestimate the influence of key stakeholders and always involve them in the process of creating their business case Cost/benefits analysis. Effective business cases include a quantitative and/or qualitative analysis that determines the costs, benefits, and risks involved with implementing or not implementing the proposal. Impact to business outcomes. Every business case should clearly articulate the impact the proposed program will have on business outcomes. Will the proposed social marketing initiative help the company meet its revenue goals through increased leads? Will it help a cost-control goal through support-call deflection? Will it contribute to a rebranding strategy through positive brand sentiment?
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You have to put in place social media monitoring and measurements so that you don't have to go through this nonsense next year. Just be sure that you measure the categories that are important to the C-Suite.
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Digest... 1. You're Invited! Different from almost any other marketing medium, social streams are sacred ground—even more so when on mobile—and should be respected as such. It should be top of mind for marketers that useless irrelevance will not be tolerated; unlike, block, mark as spam, and negative comments are a simple click away. However, it can be assumed that these consumers have a certain level of affinity or interest, and that they are open to a wide range of brand posts. The light bulb moment: A thoughtful content strategy that balances these considerations is required. Mutual value is the rule, not the exception.
2. The Party Is Fleeting Though you may gain access to the social stream, marketers need to realize that post effectiveness—especially on Facebook and Twitter—fades quickly. Usually within hours of posting, content has already peaked and begun to trend downward. Even the most viral of brand posts last only a few days. The light bulb moment: Unlike banner ads or other traditional digital marketing approaches, posts don't grow in effectiveness over time; as a result, for every campaign marketers must have a multitiered posting strategy that emphasizes a consistent cadence with new content and posts.
3. Scaling the Dialog It is a profound paradox that it's difficult to scale reach on the world's largest social networks—mostly because the networks need to control "organic" reach so they can charge for extended reach. To influence significant numbers of people via social streams, you need to aggregate large fan communities and then, in many cases, pay per post or share to increase your campaign scope to existing fans, friends of fans, and beyond. Successful social media advertising requires integrated strategies that consider how organic, earned, and paid media work with content and interactivity to drive outcomes. They are all inexorably intertwined and must be planned and executed accordingly. The light bulb moment: To drive real business outcomes, native post types with links to your .com won't cut it. Marketers must consider full strategies that include targeted reach, rich media and interactivity, amplification and appropriate social/mobile conversion events. When you couple that with Nielsen's consumer trend data, the argument to create interactive campaigns in the social stream really becomes common sense.
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A very intelligent, thoughtful post that delves deep into the social stream of conversation. The last point is quite important, as it really points to the possible need to boost the social budget so as to include paid.
Toltec Global Services's curator insight,
October 31, 2014 2:12 AM
What is the best way to measure social media success? There are three key "lightbulb" moments that turn on when success is reached.
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The Internet has drastically altered the way in which information is shared, and has had a profound impact on marketing. With these trends in mind, let’s discuss my predictions for the top online marketing trends of 2014.
1. Content Marketing Will be Bigger Than Ever One of the main ways that companies are establishing authority and gaining trust with consumers is by consistently creating valuable content through a variety of channels. This typically involves relevant industry information that provides insight or entertainment to an audience. Doing so allows a company to steadily build rapport with its demographic and develop a loyal following. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the top B2B content marketing strategies are social media, articles on a business’s website, eNewsletters, case studies, videos and articles on other websites.
2. Social Media Marketing Will Require More Diversity Consequently, it has become common for businesses to branch out and experiment with multiple networks with the aim of reaching the maximum amount of consumers. This diversification seems to prove fruitful for many companies because it often builds brand equity by making it easier for consumers to recognize a particular brand. For help figuring out which social media networks are right for your business, see my article “How to Determine Which Social Media Network Fits Your Business.”
3. Image-Centric Content Will Rule Successful blog posts that receive the most social shares also usually have a common characteristic: they pepper in some well-placed pictures to break content up and emphasize certain points. Another example is infographics, which combine images with a minimal amount of text to explain a topic and provide statistical information or data from research studies.
4. Less Will be More With many consumers feeling burned out by a constant barrage of information and advertisements that scream “look at me”, some of the most innovative marketers are going the opposite direction. The’re now making efforts to tone-down their campaign messages and not overwhelm consumers with hype.
5. Mobile-Friendly Content Will Be Necessary Due to the widespread (and quickly growing) use of smartphones and tablets, it’s necessary for companies to create content that’s accessible to mobile users. According to Forbes, “87% of connected devices sales by 2017 will be tablets and smartphones.”
6. Ad Retargeting Will Grow in Effectiveness This is a marketing strategy that has really caught on recently. In a nutshell, it works by utilizing browser cookies to track the websites that users visit. Once they leave a certain site, the products or services they viewed will be shown to them again in advertisements across different websites.
7. SEO and Social Signals Will Become Even More Intertwined Although social signals still don’t typically carry the same weight as traditional inbound links, it’s pretty undeniable that they play a role in organic search rankings these days. After all, they’re one of the three pillars of SEO. Since the goal of Google and other search engines is to provide users with the most relevant and highest quality content possible, it makes sense why they would factor in the number of social shares that a blog post, article or product page receives.
The more people that are sharing a piece of content, the higher quality it’s likely to be, and therefore its position should increase within the search engine results pages. It’s no coincidence that the top-ranking search results tends to have lots of social shares, while those ranked lower have fewer.
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There's far more than these 7 trends, but I can understand the article given the generalist publication. But within the confines of the aforementioned, let me add: 1) Smaller chunks of content... 2) ...delivered in animated fashion... 3) ...repeatable and shareable. And don't forget retargeting: one of the great unused B2B marketing tactics out there today.
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September 20, 2013 2:04 AM
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B2B marketing firm Leadtail has recently released the B2B Social Marketing Report: Marketing Executives on Twitter. The aim of the survey was to Some notable results:
For all the information, I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read the whole Leadtail report.
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It's a good report, but pales in comparison to the BaseOne Report.
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Helen Wilde's curator insight,
September 19, 2013 8:58 PM
May be stating the obvious, but logical and a nicely collected group of simple, free, strategies.
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In today’s social orientated marketing landscape most business have taken the leap of faith into social marketing. If you are one of these business you know how time consuming and resource intensive social marketing can be. Condensed... 1. Use smart scheduling for maximum engagement Using a service like Swayy or Buffer will increase your productivity, allowing you to share more quality content each week which will result in more engagement and more fans and followers. 2. Spread the workload among your staff Designate time slots to each individual and spread the workload among your entire team. The more your team gets involved with your social marketing the more likely they are to feel connected to your brand and be able to provide important insights on how you can improve your business. 3. Be aggressive with social buttons Automate the growth of your social communities by placing social buttons linked to your social profiles within emails, newsletters, and other marketing material. 4. Open your blog up to guest bloggers If you plan to publish two posts a week (the minimum in my opinion) then choose one of these slots and open it up to guest bloggers from your niche. Every niche has many bloggers and these bloggers are always looking for guest blogging opportunities.
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Simple, basic advice. Social Marketing 101. Regarding #1: know which time segments are most effective through your analytics.
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Condensed... I recommend rethinking your strategy to improve you ROI as you launch your digital strategy with effective social marketing:
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Surprisingly, SEO'ing your content is not included, nor is the inclusion of social media analytics. These are two steps that we would recommend from the beginning.
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Excellent primer.
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