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What should you monitor about your company in social media?
There are various tools and advice about what you should be monitoring in "social media," meaning Twitter searches, blog searches, etc..
What kinds of things should you monitor? Are there broad ...
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Has using the Facebook Like button been beneficial for your business?
I know it's still relatively early in the life span of the Facebook Like button, but I'm curious if anyone here has had a positive ROI from using it. Did it result in increased sales, profits, ...
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How do I find a bona fide Social Media consultant?
Everybody and their brother claims to be a social media "expert" these days.
How do you find a consultant who actually knows what they are doing?
How much should they cost?
What should you get for ...
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How To Get Featured in the Media
For my new startup, I've tried contacting numerous blogs, newspapers, news channels, and other media channels to help feature my startup.
I've written kind, catchy, short, and to the point emails to ...
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What would you spend 15 minutes a day of “Social Media” on?
I work in the B2B market. Many of our clients are owned and managed by the entrepreneur or owner. These are not high-tech companies. They make things, they manufacture, they develop, they produce and ...
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The network effect: your best friend - your worst enemy
The network effect is the thing that makes certain products or services useless until everybody is on board. But once everybody is on board then said product or service becomes very useful.
Case in ...
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What's your favorite book or resource for social media marketing?
I learned quite a bit of relevant information in reading David Meerman Scott's excellent book, "The New Rules of Marketing and PR"
I'm looking for similar focused, tactical, and useful resources to ...
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Managing multiple online personas
I currently own a resume writing business, but am also starting up a separate B2B copywriting business as well as another online marketing site. All of these ventures have very different customers, ...
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Best practices for Twitter B2B lead Generation
One of our client companies has just launched an aggressive Twitter campaign on behalf of the product with a focus on securing B2B clients.
What best practices do you recommend for leveraging ...
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Ignoring Facebook - is it safe?
I was wondering, if its safe to entirely drop facebook out of the focus and not bother with it at all.
The company in question is B2B and sells enterprise level software with licenses range 10k - ...
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What is the best platform for managing various social media networks?
Other than Hootesuite which I'm currently using, is there any other form of social media managing services that works?
Thanks,
Smith
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What do you think of Quora?
If you've had a chance to play around with Quora, what do you think of it?
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Developing a social payment system
I have seen sites like klout.com used in measuring social influence of people. I want to know if it's possible to develop a payment system where people pay using their social influence. For example we ...
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How to use social media to drive traffic to my website
I have a new startup idea that I have recently taken the initiative to create.
I have a good background knowledge in customer development, agile development, internet marketing etc. My only concern ...
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Approach to online marketing
What online marketing strategy do you use if you run site that sells services? Where do you start?
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How to Set Up Your Social Media Profiles?
Right now I am about to embark on a social media campaign for a client. I'm pretty well versed in how to leverage social media (Twitter, Digg, StumbledUpon, etc) to gain traffic and awareness.
I ...
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Should company A have different social network identities for each service/website?
Let's say company A produces various online services that fill different needs. Do you think they should have a separate Twitter/Facebook fan page for each service? Or should there just be one main ...
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How to successfully use a LinkedIn company page?
I created a LinkedIn company page a while back, but never did anything with it. Now I’m considering spending a little bit of time trying to use the company page to create brand awareness and ...
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Will social media take over traditional means of marketing?
With the increasing number of social media websites, and businesses all over the world using social media for promoting and branding their products, will this over take the traditional way of ...
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Facebook pages for different websites
I am having problems getting my head around facebook pages. I'm a technical guy, and I have read the facebook docs as well as a few blogs on why to use facebook pages - however, I don't quite get it. ...
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Early stage strategies of growing your customer base for online start-up?
I wonder what do you recommend are the best strategies for growth and promotion of your online start-up in the early stages after launch?
How do you get your name out there and how do you effectively ...
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Promoting sub-communities of a social website?
I'm currently working on a social website that bases itself on specific sub-communities (something along the lines of Reddit meets Pintrest for lack of a better description). What are some effective ...
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Is marketing the most important thing?
I was reading about the creation of mingle2.com, and what struck me as curious is that at that time (in 2007) the online dating market was well on its way to being saturated (aside from niche areas of ...
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How can social media create value in innovation and product development?
An increasing number of companies are trying to make sense of the world of social media tools and their implication for innovation and product development.
I'm doing a research to better understand ...
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Blog that covers Social Media tools and Social Media analysis
I'm familiar with Mashable.com, but what I'm looking for is a blog or site that just covers social media tools. By tools I'm referring to things that help you analyze the social web. Below are some ...
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Does anyone have advice about entering the social media apps and games space? [closed]
I'm interested in entering the social media apps and games space. I personally have several years of experience in interactive media development for the web (both programming and design) and some ...
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When (and why) should a small, niche company spend resources *promoting* Social Media Marketing rather than an email newsletter?
What are the types of situations (or examples) of when a small, resource strapped company should divert resources from other areas (product development, email newsletter) to Facebook?
Some general ...
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What aspect of your startups workflow could be better, or how have you improved it?
I have asked a few fledgling tech startups about what they wish they didn't have to spend as much time on.
The answer is almost invariably 'not coding' and 'context shifts' as exemplified by ...
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How 'bout a combined StackExchange/Wikipedia hybrid solution?
Our start-up site will use a listing of product/service categories. I want our site's community of members to decide what categories/subcategories get added, as well as, other aspects about each ...
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Offering customers a discount in exchange of social media publicity - Does this make sense?
Yesterday, I added the following special deal in my service web site :
Help us promoting the site (blogging/tweetting about it, sharing the link in facebook, google+, delicious,… and committing to ...
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Getting engagement on Twitter
We launched our company Twitter account by getting a few thousand other Twitter users to follow us -- by following them. The result was like a crowded pick-up joint on Saturday night. People were all ...
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Should I have 1 blog for each product or 1 blog for the company?
We have several products in several different areas (some are in the same areas). Should we start a blog for each product or should we write in our company blog everything?
What's the best strategy ...
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How to spot a good social media marketer
It's a bit subjective but helpful and on-topic IMO, mayebe should be made community wiki
I've been in contact with some guest bloggers lately which are interested in publishing posts on my website's ...
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Is building fans on a Facebook fan page or Twitter with Fiverr worthwhile?
I've seen Fiverr used to build fans to a new social network page or profile, build links (spammy) for a website, or design a logo. Is it an effective tool for building fans to a social media page (in ...
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Best way to do Social Media Management?
I am aware that the use of social media is a must for most of the companies. When it is about my start up, what is the best way to manage them? In the beginning I will take care of them but thinking ...
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How to generate revenue from a website using visitor counts? Is there a standard way for doing it?
I want to build a web application that would showcase realestate properties of different owners. One way to generate revenue from this is charging for their property posting and for featured posting? ...
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Rebranding a New Web Company
I have a website that I have been working on for a few months and I have a pretty decent social media following as well as a lot of visitors on my website and we have decided we need to change the ...
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Pricing for the premium content?
We are in a process of launching a new start-up. It is a web based software application/platform providing business networking services. Although not directly comparable, however for the illustration ...
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Securing your company's name on twitter?
I'm currently using @zeeenmedia because someone on the other side of the world has an account, used only intermittently, named @zeeen.
Is there a good way to contact that user to work out a swap?
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Social Media Auction website startup
I need more vendors to join my startup, likebids.com, but I only have 10 so far. Can anyone give me more information on where to find the right advertisers that would be interested in our concept?
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What social media information or solution do you miss?
I am looking into building a social media tool and would be curious to know what the entrepreneurs here are missing.
Is there one information (raw data, aggregated data, chart, etc) that would help ...
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What do you do when you have an idea _and_ money but no expertise or experience creating a technical product?
I know that seems like a "how do I cope with my spoil of riches?" type question and I apologize in advance for being the type of amateur class that for all I know has a popular tumblr blog dedicated ...
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Concentrated course on Social Media in top schools
Are there any top or mid level schools that offer an MBA degree with a concentration on Social Media, SEO, etc.?
I would like to also know whether theses concentrated courses would also include ...
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Outsourcing “product development” for Tech startups
what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing "product development" eg new social media website project?
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How should I use Google Buzz?
While twitter has proven to be a great tools to get the word out about your ideas, there has been less hype about how Buzz can do similar things.
I'm curious as to whether Buzz is just a tool for ...
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Internet Marketing lessons/course for a startup founder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to promote my business using social networking
Hi All,
I am going to roll up my sleeves and learn internet marketing to make my startup succeed. Need help with ...
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How can we get more sales for our daily deal app? (not Groupon clone)
We've launched our group buying app (no, we're not a Groupon clone) for online retailers about 3 weeks ago. Traffic has been okay, and we have a fair number of sign-ups for the trial. We've only had 2 ...
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DMCA for Startup Social Media sites
I will be launching a social media website very soon that will include user generated content like video, and images.
It is my understanding that sites based around user generated content draw many ...
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How to start spread the fire
I've gotten a page up and running. It's some what appealing but not the best in the world. I am wondering how I can start spreading the word, fire, using Facebook.
I've gotten the site up, I've ...
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I don't agree with my social media marketing team. Please advice who is right
I am working on developing a platform that allows sports fans to interact with their star athletes. I have outsourced social media marketing for initial 2 months. Now we have developed differences ...
