Strategy

How Branded Communities Leverage Your Social Strategy

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Branded social communities are to your social marketing strategy what your company website is to your internet marketing strategy. You’d never run online advertising campaigns, banners ads, or search marketing campaigns without having a place to send prospects, a place where you control the entire messaging, would you?

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The Lowdown on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for B2B Marketers

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I had a strange experience at my local cigar shop over the weekend. I was sitting at De La Concha, puffing away on the house cigar, when I wound up in conversation with another guest. He works in the risk management profession – and I was a marketer in the insurance industry for a while – so we found we had a bit to talk about. Before he left, we wanted to exchange business cards, but neither of us had them on hand. So, he asked me if I was on LinkedIn. I spelled out my name, and he sent me an invitation to connect on his BlackBerry.

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