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Social Media Mavens

From Facebook to Twitter, Google+ to LinkedIn, social media is here to stay. Discover the best practices for the emerging channel with WM’s Social Media Mavens.

Zappos Tracks Pinterest Conversions with Pinfluencer

As Pinterest continues its slow but steady ascent to social media greatness, brands are turning to the platform in droves to raise awareness with their target consumers and, in some cases, even turning a profit. As more and more enterprises...

Black Hat vs. White Hat Social Media Marketing

When it comes to social media marketing, there is a long list of best practices and worst practices that brand managers should be aware of. Sometimes the lines of good and bad get blurry, and even though a brand might simply be trying...

Twitter Allows AmEx Customers to Buy Products by Tweeting

Will that be cash, check or…tweet? Yesterday, Twitter announced the kind of shocking news that users will now be able to pay for products by simply tweeting thanks to a new integrated payment system from American Express. This...

The Benefits of Social Login

Is your website’s long membership registration form negatively affecting your marketing efforts? According to a new study, it could be. The Consumer Perceptions of Social Login Study , which was conducted by Blue Researc h and...

Content Marketing Without a Blog

It’s no secret that content marketing has a phenomenal ROI (the statistics only seem to get better with each passing year). In fact, Kapost and Eloqua recently produced an eBook on the ROI of content marketing in which they stated...

Profile Optimization for 2nd-Tier Social Networks

For brands, maintaining a social presence on the Web is hard work. Not only do social media managers need to focus on engaging audience members, but they must also stay current with new features, redesigns and updates from social networks...

Viralheat Gets Smart with Social

Social media management just got easier with the Viralheat platform, because the social media marketing suite provider launched Smart Stream, which is a unified, Web-based social media management, monitoring and analytics application...

4 Ways to Go Local on Google+

While Google+ is not the most popular site on the 'Net, when it comes to social networks, is certainly one of the most important. This is especially true for local businesses, because maintaining a profile on Google+ not only helps...

Pinfluencer Launches Image Recognition Engine

Merchants that actively maintain a Pinterest profile have the potential to gain a lot of traffic from the visually driven social network. However, just like any other social network, merchants must monitor the analytics of the content...

5 Ways to Engage with Twitter's Vine Videos

Social networks can sometimes feel like a jungle, so Twitter decided to add a vine to the mix (not literally, of course). Vine is Twitter’s new mobile service that allows users to capture and share short, six seconds or less...

Profile Inspirations for the Big 4 Social Networks

In today’s digital age, it is important for every business to broaden its audience reach by maintaining a presence on four of the ’Net’s most popular social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn...

Social Media for Home-Based Businesses

When running a home-based business, the pressure of completing vital daily actions, in addition to time constraints, means social media strategy may not be your highest priority. But to outreach to an extensive customer base, build...

SDL Lends Customers an Ear

Monitoring customer conversations from multiple sources is a challenge for businesses of any size. But with SDL Social Intelligence’s August 2012 update to SM2 a business intelligence product – small and mid-sized businesses...

Social Traffic Impacts Conversions During Holidays

There are many uncertainties regarding the impact that social media has on conversions for e-commerce merchants, however, a new study from Ecwid reveals that purchases resulting from Facebook referral links grew significantly during...

Facebook’s Graph Search, 5 Oughta Knows

The world’s largest social network made waves on the ’Net yesterday with the launch of a new tool called Graph Search. The tool essentially allows people to discover information based on data that Facebook has collected...

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