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Word of Mouth Marketing and Social Media

Sometimes the most recent and powerful innovations in marketing turn out to be new handles for things that have been going on forever. Social media is a great example because in an important sense, social media is no more (and no less) than people talking. Social media is what happens when a delicatessen makes a [...]

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How to Use WordPress SEO Plug-Ins

Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft’s Bing are critical marketing channels for mid-size businesses. We love using WordPress as a marketing platform because these search engines love blogs. Your site and it’s updates will be “found” by Google quickly if it’s based around a great blogging engine like WordPress which has several powerful plug-ins for optimizing search [...]

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Basic Introduction to Twitter Lists

The recently released Twitter Lists function is Twitter’s most useful feature. Twitter Lists allow you to group Followees. Creating Lists is particularly useful for accounts with many many Followees because you can organize them into manageable categories. Up until now, these Twitter users struggled to efficiently monitor more than a few hundred accounts. Some useful [...]

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YouTube Humanizes B2B Social Media Marketing

YouTube is a powerful media channel with serious value for mid market B2Bs. Despite being one of the largest search engines, YouTube’s size and SEO influence is frequently overlooked. The numbers are stunning. Twenty hours of video are uploaded each minute. YouTube CEO, Chad Hurley, recently proclaimed that the site has well over one billion [...]

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Chirping at BMA Milwaukee About Social Marketing ROI

Mark Bradford and Rob Lambert, Co-Founders of ChirpUp.com, present "Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Measuring ROI for Social Marketing Campaigns" January 14, 2010 at BMA Milwaukee.

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Unleash Your LinkedIn Business Network!

Cliché or not, we say it all time… “You get what you put into LinkedIn.” Actually, you get way more! With over 50 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is an immensely powerful B2B marketing channel. If you’re thinking about social media marketing, start with LinkedIn and dive in. Having a Profile Is Not Enough Too frequently, [...]

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Social Media B2B Marketing ROI Finally Emerges

Finally!  We have a credible study that substantiates social media marketing ROI for major B2B brands. The research found that companies with the highest levels of social media engagement increased revenues by 18% in the last 12 months, while the least active declined by 6%. Above and beyond correlating financial performance with deep social media [...]

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How Should B2B Marketers Use Facebook Fan Pages?

Forget Facebook for a minute and just think about your business. Every successful mid-market B2B has “fans”. They’re your customers, relatives, employees and dear friends. These people watched you create a thriving business. And during tougher times, they may have helped you survive. These people know exactly who you are. They trust you. These “fans” [...]

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LinkedIn Groups B2B Marketing Tips

Join LinkedIn Group Target Market, Not Your Competition Try joining groups where you might actually interact with your target audience, not just your competition.  I know you’re thinking “duh”, but seriously… it’s surprising how often marketers instinctively and exclusively join groups dominated by their competition. Accountants, for example should surely join a few major accounting [...]

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ChirpUp Speaks to Vistage on New Media Marketing

ChirpUp discussing new media as revolutionary marketing force with Chicago's Vistage executive coaching and leadership chapter. Mature mid-market businesses have a powerful democratizing channel to tell their story. Mark Bradford will share emerging B2B and B2C methods for "being heard"...creating relationships, generating “buzz”, competing and winning!

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