Articles Tagged Facebook:
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Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrFeb 23, 2013
Social Media Explained with Coffee
Coffee is one of those incredible pleasures in my life that I can’t do without. I’m sipping on a freshly roasted dark French Roast right now, and it’s fantastic, brewed in my stovetop espresso maker. My best friends own a coffee shop. There’s nothing I love more than discovering some non-chain coffee house when I’m on the road. Most of…
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Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrFeb 20, 2013
How to Get More Shares on Facebook
Companies who market via Facebook often don’t realize the damage that they do by not making each and every update a compelling one. There’s so much activity happening around each user that Facebook can’t possibly display every update. As a result, they often only display posts that are shared and/or discussed to a great extent. Shares have more weight in…
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Content MarketingDouglas KarrFeb 8, 2013
Feeding the Content Beast with Rallyverse
Companies with great content strategies aren’t limiting the value of their program to content that they alone write. There’s a massive quantity of content hitting the web every single second… some good, some bad. The ability to tap into that firehose, pull out the gems, and share it with your audience is a huge advantage over your competitors. If you…
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E-commerce and RetailDouglas KarrDec 13, 2012
Social Commerce Best Practices
This holiday season some doubt was spread as to the impact of social media on e-commerce sales. Since the holiday season is dominated by discounting, I tend to disagree that social’s impact is diminished. 8thBridge has developed this infographic that reviews e-commerce platforms and how social impacts the purchasing process. 8thBridge are makers of the Graphite, a social commerce platform…
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Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrNov 28, 2012
Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business
Releasing a new mobile version of Facebook for tablets and mobile devices may have been one of the best moves they had ever made. Facebook is now seeing a 67% year over year growth according to this infographic from Qwaya, Reasons Why a Mobile Facebook is Serious Business. It’s time to start taking Facebook on mobile seriously. The whole world…
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Marketing & Sales VideosDouglas KarrOct 18, 2012
Viral Humor: Social Media and Feminine Hygiene Products
A Facebook product page promoting your feminine hygiene products is probably already a challenge. Adding a witty, sarcastic comment on the page that went viral could have been a bit embarrassing. Here’s a censored comment from Richard on the Bodyform Facebook page: Hi, as a man I must ask why you have lied to us for all these years. As…
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Marketing & Sales VideosDouglas KarrOct 12, 2012
Enterprise Social Media Management from Syncapse
In an enterprise corporation engaged in social media, there’s a ton of activity. From support and sales conversations to marketing and promotions, conversations need to be properly routed, quickly responded to, and assured that they are handled properly. Almost every week we hear of another major corporation that accidentally publishes an embarrassing tweet because they lacked any command and control…
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Content MarketingDouglas KarrAug 21, 2012
The Dramatic Impact of Online Visual Storytelling
There’s a reason why we use so much imagery here at Martech Zone… it works. While the textual content is the focus, the imagery balances the pages and provides a means for readers to get an instant impression of what is to come. Imagery is an understated strategy when it comes to developing your content. If you haven’t already –…
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Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrJul 27, 2012
The Art of the Mobile Check-In
I’m not sure if I’m in the minority on geographic services, but I enjoy using Foursquare and checking in everywhere. The funny thing is that I don’t often share my check-ins, nor do I ever take advantage of the specials that they offer. So why do I do it? Hmmm… I haven’t figured that out. I do like the fact…
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Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrJul 14, 2012
You Are The Product of Facebook
Joel Helbling stopped by the office on Friday for a great lunch where we chatted on a number of topics. Joel quoted someone who said that, as a social media company, you have to decide what your product is… the people or the platform. Many people (myself included) look at the valuations of a platform like Facebook and think it’s…