Articles Tagged Twitter:
- Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrApr 29, 2013
How Consumers Use Social Media to Find Local Businesses
People use social media to find and engage with local businesses in various ways, leveraging the platforms’ features like search and discovery tools, user-generated content (UGC), and influencer recommendations. Social media platforms have become essential for regional companies to connect with their audience, increase brand awareness, and drive sales. Statistics highlight the importance of social media for local businesses: Facebook…
- Content MarketingJesse ThomasMar 14, 2013
How Not To Freak Out About Content Marketing
So your business has a blog and a presence on all the major social platforms, and maybe a few industry-specific ones too — great! Now what? How do you fill these channels, and more importantly, in this 24/7 news cycle, how do you get your content to cut through the noise and stand out? It’s a tall order. Everyone has…
- Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrMar 5, 2013
How to Write the Perfect Tweet
Aside from having something great to say, there is a pattern to writing a good tweet on Twitter. (Are you following me and the Martech Zone?). Gerry Moran has written a great post and put together a blueprint for publishing the perfect tweet. Gerry recommends three social media goals for your tweets… amplification, engagement and conversion. I couldn’t agree more!…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Analytics & TestingDouglas KarrOct 19, 2012
Tellagence: Social Marketing Intelligence
Marketers tend to treat social media as they would other traditional media. Find where the most eyeballs are and chase them. The difference is huge, though. Within social networks, there are three activities: Observation – an audience that simply follows and captures the information for their own personal use. Interaction – a community that responds and provides feedback to the…
- 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…
- 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 –…
- Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrAug 1, 2012
Strategies for Effective Tweeting
I love the data in this report from Buddy Media and infographic from Fusework Studios. The data points to the opportunity businesses have to engage with customers when they are available, ask their followers to take action, and keep the message simple. Of course, I always encourage our clients to test and measure, too. Perhaps your competitors aren’t tweeting on…