The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 11, 2014

2014 has been a great year for social media marketing. Buoyed by the success stories from 2014 bigger brands and bigger budgets will come to the platform whilst inventory remains the same or declines, at least in the UK or US. Facebook is forecasting Q4 revenues of $3.6-3.8bn, 3.8bn, up 40-47% on the year ago quarter.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

This news follows on the heels of a great close to 2015, where year-over-year revenue was up for 61 percent over 2014 revenue for the survey participants. Ask them if they wouldn’t mind sharing positive feedback on your website, newsletter, social media channels, or an online review site. But what really works?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2014

2014 and the Future of Social Media, Through the Eyes of Buffer written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Enjoy this guest post from Leo Widrich COO at Buffer. 2014 is going to be a huge year for social media. Pictures will continue to be hugely valuable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The Future of Social Media written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mike Stelzner. What’s next in social media is a topic that seems to create a great deal of angst in marketing circles. So, the future of social media is integration!

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2013

Use Social Media And Special Offers. Social networking is an invaluable tool for retailers nowadays. However, simply marketing via social media is no longer cutting-edge enough to attract large numbers of consumers. Either way, the possibilities offered by social networking are endless!

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. We believe the long-term opportunity is potentially larger and more profound than the various innovations we’ve seen in social networking, messaging and video… We believe the economic opportunity for immersive co-experience is vast.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

Newzoo, a video game research firm, reported that 2014 revenue for mobile gaming was $25 billion – up 43% over revenues from 2013. Gaming has become more social and interactive in itself, and in 2015, we can expect to see more integrations with various social networks, including Facebook and Twitter.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. Thanks to Raven Cobb, Clearstep, Inc ! #6- 6- Lord Alan Sugar. Photo Credit: Paul Bowley.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Fast forward to 2014. So, what SHOULD you do in 2014? By now you must have realized what’s WRONG, now is the fun part; here’s what’s going to work in 2014 and even after the next Google update. The beauty of backlinks in 2014 will be earning them in a lot more logic ways. Next: So, how can you remedy this?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. Alignable is a network exclusively for business owners , conceptualized by Eric Groves and Venkat Krishnamurthy. Next-Gen Networking.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2016

When Automation Goes Wrong: A Better Approach to Social Media written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Given the sheer scale of social media and the number of social channels (there are over 90 social networks ) – and the volume of people using them (Facebook has over 1.59

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! I’m sure you’ve noticed the proliferation of social click-bait media designed to get people to click the latest story on silly topics. – crowdspring.co/Uo7qiz.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Thanks to Deaver Brown, Simply Media ! #16- Photo Credit: Garrett Hayes. It’s official, Discord is our favorite disruptor going into 2022.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Social Media Marketing World. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! The conference brings the top marketing, technology and social media professionals together to share their tips and tools on making the latest marketing trends work. Social Media Strategies Summit.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2014

By Lance Brown, VP of Product Development at Huzzah Media , provider of innovative digital solutions for small businesses. However, 7 out of 10 small business owners say time and cost restraints prohibit them from improving their online presence, according to a new study from Huzzah Media.[1] Take it Social. So, where to start?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Kate Cooper is a social business thought leader and managing director of BLOOM Worldwide , a social media agency powered by insight. Unlike some social networks Jelly has pretty clear and simple proposition, making it easy for brands to quickly get up and running and start engaging with their customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

As outlined a while back by Adam Holden-Bache on Social Media B2B , I’m convinced that business-to-business has more money and more untapped opportunities, still waiting to be found: Find strategic partnerships. Segments that come to mind include product tracking, navigation, safety, security, local business search, and payments.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 9, 2015

What can you do so that you’re not remembered as a social network called MySpace or Google’s Orkut? While it was a joke, but Trevor Noah gets him to move from writing letters, to phones to eventually asking people to share thoughts on social media using a hashtag. Starbucks War on Christmas?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

Social media recommendations induced an average of 26 percent of purchases in 2014, according to a study by Mckinsey and Company. Consumers are beginning to trust social media more and more for their buying decisions. Companies have to incorporate social strategies into their marketing efforts in order to compete.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

In fact, social media platforms like Facebook have become useful sources of product endorsements. We are now almost as likely to buy a product because of an online review or recommendation from someone within our social media circles as we are after seeing a TV ad(3). Social Commerce. Omni-Channel Retailing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Social and Guest Blogger Networks. Social media is becoming an increasingly pay-to-play environment, especially on Facebook. An alternative is to target bloggers and media outlets directly. Buffer, a popular social media sharing tool, leveraged a guest network to generate millions in revenues.

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Brandanew

JULY 2, 2015

Everyone can market on social media – well, according to them! Nevertheless, the unpredictability of social media hasn’t discouraged marketers across the world to try different antics every time a product or service is launched and some of them aren’t just successful, but highly inspiring. Honda #Cheerance Event.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Useful content optimized with keywords also attracts more search engine traffic and links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 10, 2014

How to Set Social Media Up from Scratch written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing We just started working with a mid-size software company and, in digging in to build their marketing system, it quickly became clear they had no real social media integration. Social Media'

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 18, 2015

According to Convince and Convert , 80% of social network members have received unsolicited email or invites. As of 2014, the average number of daily business-related emails sent and received per person is 121. It’s a positive addition to their brand experience. Context Is MIA. Format correctly. One email, one goal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Outsourcing social media. Many small business owners are devoting a significant chunk of their capacity to social media marketing, albeit sometimes with limited results.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Join my private newsletter and get the Complete Guide to A/B testing: Jan 31, 2014. Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Tommy Walker.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Social networks have their own switching costs. WhatsApp focused on driving user adoption, and Facebook bought the company in 2014 without knowing how to monetize users. Zuckerberg paid , in other words, for the network-based moat: “WhatsApp is on a path to connect 1 billion people. The primary goal is user acquisition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Content continues to dominate media headlines and marketing programs at many startups and small businesses. There’s very useful insight, especially for B2B (business-to-business) marketers in a recently published 2014 Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks Study.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Though it may seem obvious, according to the CMO Survey , which collected responses from Fortune 1000, Forbes Top 200, and other high ranking Marketers, found that the state of analytics even now in 2014, is quite dismal. First, your advertising is either Paid, Owned, or Earned Media. Display ads are Paid Media.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Small businesses rarely have the time or resources to invest in outsourced customer service support, and some are finding it more efficient to serve customers via social media platforms: one LinkedIn study from 2014 revealed that 81 percent of North American SMEs use social media [5]. Build a following.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Fairly, their choice of marketing strategy is justifiable with all these successful user-generated content campaigns trending in various social media platforms. User-generated content is pervasively dominating social media as if it were an epidemic outbreak, which is good. April 4, 2014. June 3, 2016. Refinery 29.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Social media is littered with tales of companies that withered under the pressure of hypergrowth, were crushed by so-called ‘toxic V.C.s’

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

Additionally, giving away smart outstanding products results info Free “Word of mouth” sharing in social networks which gives the brand additional impressions and exposure. We launched our first collection on Kickstarter (end 2014) and pre-sold 500 watches from our campaign. 16) 2 Things.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It continues to worm its way into innumerable agency and media company presentations. Additionally, the study did not note whether the small businesses that didn’t have a website had an active social media presence (e.g., According to a 2014 study, still the only study on the topic as of November 2020…). Image source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2014

Using Visual Media to Boost Your Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing It is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Clayton Wood – Enjoy! Visual media is emerging as a very important and powerful tool in online marketing.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses.

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