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Quick toolbox for new social media tools, apps, tips, technology of interest to bloggers, content producers, storytellers, marketing & PR pros. Emphasis on practical not techhy, usable not confusable! ;-)
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Mobile Social Tools, Tactics and Inspiration

Mobile Social Tools, Tactics and Inspiration | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

Even knowing the above stats, it can be remarkably easy to underestimate the power our smartphones hold when it comes to marketing. I mean, I still work on a laptop for most of the day—maybe you do, too.

But beginning in early 2014, internet usage on mobile devices began to exceed desktop usage.

These days, more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries, including the U.S.  And Goldman Sachs has predicted that the number of people making purchases on smartphones and tablets will grow to nearly half of all e-commerce by 2018....

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Buffer shares a valuable blueprint for mobile marketing and why it matters.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, September 28, 2015 4:31 PM

Buffer shares a valuable blueprint for mobile marketing and why it matters.

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5 Mobile Marketing Tools to Reach Customers on the Go

5 Mobile Marketing Tools to Reach Customers on the Go | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

If you're looking to up your mobile marketing strategy, check out these 5 vendors that can help.

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Tools reviewed include:  MailChimp for email; Red Stamp for custom mobile letterhead, tools; mobile loyalty program Swipely; business texting tool TextUs.Biz; and Facebook's Pages Manager app.

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Forget Snapchat and WhatsApp for a second – Kik is the dark horse of the Internet

Forget Snapchat and WhatsApp for a second – Kik is the dark horse of the Internet | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

If you believe in the messaging revolution and that messaging is the killer app for mobile, then Kik has to be on your radar. If you believe in good design and a young userbase, then Kik should be near the top of your list of chat apps to pay attention to.


Having said that messaging is the killer app on mobile, it may sound like contradiction to say that messaging is also a commodity, but that, too, is true. On my iPhone’s homescreen, I have a folder that contains six messaging apps, and the messages come to me by push notification. I don’t really care which app I use to respond, but I do care about the stuff around those messaging experiences – the tools, the timelines, the connected apps. If you agree, then, that a communications platform is more important that a pure-play mobile chat app, then Kik deserves the same attention you give to WeChat and Line, and more than you give to WhatsApp....

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, November 30, 2013 8:40 AM

Message maven? Check out Kik.