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Everything you need in marketing, you learned in kindergarden.

Inspired by Jay Boer’s 5 Ways to Add Marketing Helpfulness (which is a great article by the way) I’d like to expand on ways to use social media to increase helpfulness. Essentially, the idea is that if your business is helpful to your consumer, they will remember that next time they are in the market for the product or service you offer. I mention this very same topic in my recent interview with Tractor Beam Marketing.  I say that social media has karma and businesses aren’t really used to having to consider karma in the way they do with social media. Its a new platform and a new way of understanding. I think its particularly powerful when what is shared is not directly self-serving.

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Quality or Quantity?

Would you rather have 100,000 Twitter followers, 95% of whom don’t RT, @mention or even acknowledge you or 2,000 who hang on your every word and identify with your tweets in a passionate way? True, in either case, your REAL fans are likely to be in the mix, and your job is to identify and cultivate them.

Don’t you feel like you’d be fooling yourself to think that simply having fans or followers is enough? How can you activate people who just don’t care? Simply following your Twitter feed or Facebook page is an awfully low entry point, wouldn’t you agree?

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Digital Storytelling

I was reading an interesting article today about digital advertising. Essentially, the article supposes that the reason that TV and radio still get larger budgets than digital is the ability to tell a story.

Telling a story is the most important aspect of branding. Give people something to relate to. Its true, you can’t tell a story in a banner ad.

But you CAN tell a story in an engaging cross-platform way using social media. From Facebook to YouTube to even Twitter, stories are told every single day. Big stories. Mundane stories. Social media IS story telling. At its heart, that’s ALL it is.

A good story invites engagement. Engagement that TV doesn’t offer. Interconnectivity that radio can’t provide.

If you aren’t telling a story through social media, ask yourself why not? Better yet, let’s talk about here, together. What’s your story? How are you using social media to tell it?

Blogs and why I am a Wordpress evangelist..and you should be too.

When was the last time your marketing efforts included a content calendar? For social media, content is hugely important. If you don’t have a content strategy, you don’t have a strategy, no matter what social media tool or platform you are using.

Also, if you have a website you should be incorporating an SEO strategy, which utilizes and employs key words. At the very least, you should understand what keywords are important to you and how competitive those key words are in the Google-sphere. Once you understand your key words, they should be used accordingly in your website and all of your social media platforms.

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Engagement is a top priority for businesses

Social media and event marketing are the two most effective ways to engage customers. They create passionate brand advocates. Customers who identify themselves by the owners of a particular brand. They give marketers a chance to listen to customers instead of just pushing information.

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