35 Smart Social Media Business & Consumer Insights

Social media is “not just about engagement, it’s about being engaging.”

This and 34 other key insights should help to soften even the most hardened old-media marketers. Understand why the old tricks don’t work, and you’ll not only succeed, your business will be that much better for it, and you’ll have lots of new friends too!

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35 Smart Social Media Business & Consumer Insights from @BrianSolis – Top Rank Online Marketing Blog

4 Ways to Get the Most out of Email Marketing

A lack of integration between email and social media, despite outstanding popularity and influence, is due to a failure by retailers to really engage with customers.

Interactivity, sales and serious loyalty are all being left on the table when your email marketing is less than stunning. If you’re just sending out the same old sales flyers, you’re missing out on the better part of your campaign’s potential.

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4 Ways to Get the Most out of Email Marketing – Small Biz Technology

3 Phases of Social Media SEO | Where Are You At?

The song of Content Marketing and Social Media is being sung far and wide. But as this new approach to online marketing takes hold, you can start to observe patterns in the way people approach it.

Where is your SEO and Social Media integration heading and how far along are you? With so many tunes and rhythms to manage and sort out, only a good conductor can lead you to real harmony.

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3 Phases of Social Media SEO – Where Are You At? – Top Rank

Why Google Will Clean Bing’s Clock On Local And Mobile

It’s nice to think that, just maybe, Bing is going to give Google a run for its money. But in important areas such as local search and mobile search, it’s likely that Google will remain far ahead in the game.

The key of course, for Google and for Bing, is in that one area that makes social media so social is relationships. Google, as big as they are, is going to foster that all important relationship with you, and both you and Bing could learn something from it.

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Why Google Will Clean Bing’s Clock On Local And Mobile – Biznology