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Interview with Entrepreneur Evan Mendelsohn, Co-Founder of Tipsy Elves

Deirdre Breakenridge

I was familiar with search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. Search engine optimization helped us rank for big search terms like “ugly Christmas sweaters” while social media helped our sweaters go viral and drive engagement and brand awareness. Interview Mentoring PR 2.0

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4 Reasons To Add Customer Storytelling to Your Marketing Mix

Contently - Strategy

According to a study from Oracle and Brent Leary, “ 80% of consumers have purchased products in direct response to social media content. When it comes down to it, consumers are skeptical of businesses, so it’s no surprise they trust social media influencers, peers, and celebrities to give them advice on new products.

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3 Steps to Equip Your Company Blog for the Road Ahead

Cision

We see it every day: fast food chains challenge devotees to gather retweets for “ nuggs ,” personal care products advocate for women’s equality and airlines get called out — for both successes and major fails — in viral videos. But without a distribution channel, your company blog is like a car without an engine.

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The Top 50 Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Cision

As Cision’s social media manager, I use top 50 and top 100 lists for three purposes: To follow individuals who will help me stay in the loop when new trends and statistics emerge within my industry. Every year, Cision creates a list of the top 50 social media influencers on Twitter. ” https://t.co/XuswAAsGAo.

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5 Ways Social Media is Used to Mislead or Misinform

Waxing UnLyrical

I have a confession to make: I’m not 100% in love with social media. Don’t get me wrong, social media. Using social media to lie is unfortunately easy. This format makes it inevitable that we will not always get the big picture purely from social media. Quit using social media?

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War of Ideas: How to Fight and Win on the Social Media Front (Part 1)

Melissa Agnes

Part 1: Debunking the Unpredictability of Social Media and the Digital Landscape. Social media’s impact on crisis doesn’t just exist for organizational crises or emergencies such as natural disasters. World leaders are currently fighting in a war of ideas where social media plays a threatening role.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

Today, it is so much easier and it’s a lot more transparent with the advent of search engines and a social web. On Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and all those other social networks. A laptop, the web, and a search engine and you have the starter tools to begin this spying caper. Miscellaneous social networks.

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