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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

The same messaging rules that apply to classic public relations and branding apply to social media. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

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The same messaging rules that apply to classic public relations and branding apply to social media. Social media is about maintaining a dynamic conversation between you and your customers. Other popular benefits were keeping up with the industry, monitoring online conversations, and finding vendors/suppliers.

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Twitter Link Roundup #57 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. Today’s issue of crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter (marketing, strategy, 2011 outlook) – [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011 – [link]. Customer conversation in a service economy – [link]. More about this bizarre purchase in the “Other&# section below. Need a logo? Tap global design network – [link]. How can crowdsourcing work for your business? – [link]. – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #81 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – [link]. Consider participating in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 – [link]. How to Create Compeling Advertising – [link]. Why would people “save&# ads to review later?

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Twitter Link Roundup #77 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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helping Twitter-enable Charlie Sheen for a direct-to-fan conversation – [link]. Exciting Web Design Trends to look out for: 2011 Edition – [link]. Bizarre to see agencies blaming clients for agencies’ failure to evolve their business models – [link]. Half Of U.S. 12-Year-Olds Are Facebooking – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #69 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

One-way, outbound, non-conversational messages still work – [link]. The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011 – [link]. What’s next for social media marketing (slides) – [link]. Celebrities in Advertising Are Almost Always a Big Waste of Money – [link]. Crowdsourcing Examples in Business – [link].