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6 Tips for Marketing and Branding Across Social Networks

Posted by Dean Whitney on 28 May 2009 | 1 Comments

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Participating in online social networks such as Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Digg etc., is an important part of digital marketing. Social networks allow you to connect with influential consumers whose conversations help you to develop a stronger reputation as well as influence over search engine rankings.

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If it’s a bird and a plane, it may be a Super Brand

Posted by Steve Merino on 22 May 2009 | 2 Comments

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The launch of BioClinica.

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Are You On Track to Building an Effective Social Media Marketing Program

Posted by Dean Whitney on 22 May 2009 | 0 Comments

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  1. Do you have a “Publishing Plan” to create meaningful content and reach your target audience?
  2. Are you actively listening to and having conversations with people in places they frequent such as blogs and online communities?
  3. Are your empowering employees and customers to act as “brand evangelists?”
  4. Do you have a systematic plan for your teams to promote your brand, your content and build reputations on a daily basis?
  5. Are you establishing a “Co-creation Experience” with your target buyers? An experience where their suggestions and insights shape the future of your offering? Can your customers become members?
  6. Are you planning “Research Initiatives” that will help your organization learn prior to making major investments in marketing initiatives?
  7. Is your strategy “Agile”, with regular checkpoints to analyze results and trending, to look at both qualitative and quantitative data, adjust your tactics and fine-tune your initiatives?
  8. Are you able to derive lead intelligence from your website? Can you analyze how specific events, content, activities affect traffic and lead conversion? When a website visitor converts to a lead can you tell what site they came from, which pages they read and see what they are interested in?
  9. Do you have a systematic program for keyword discovery and acquisitions? Are you sharing target keywords with your team so they can use them in when creating content (blogs, comments, twitter updates etc.)?
  10. Are you willing to “Lose Control” of the conversation?

 

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Web 2.0 Meets Marketing 101

Posted by Adam Peck on 13 May 2009 | 0 Comments

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The RFP started out just like any other.

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Hi, my name is Jeannine, and I’m addicted to Twitter

Posted by on 6 May 2009 | 0 Comments

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Growing at a staggering rate of 1,320%, Twitter is undeniably the “next big thing” in social media. I used to think Twitter was utterly inane and just the latest way for egocentric MySpace fiends to get attention.

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