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Create A Successful Content Strategy
Earlier this week we posted our predictions for the top five trends in social media for 2011. One of those predictions was the large extent in which social media content would grow this coming year. In order to help you be a part of this growth in content during the year, we at Socialmash Media ...
Top Five Social Media Trends for 2011
2010 was the year of social media. Today, everyone and their grandmother has a Facebook, which has turned Facebook into the new Google. Now that social media has become so ingrained in peoples’ everyday lives and become such a big part of the way business is done, we here at Socialmash Media came up with ...
Stop Collecting Facebook Fans – Engage Them
When it comes to Facebook, many brands and businesses take “the more ‘likes’ the better” approach. While I’m not going to try and say that businesses shouldn’t concentrate on growing their Facebook fan base, I do believe many businesses are not focusing on their true numbers and their true goals for their social media strategy. ...
Do you have an Offline Social Media Strategy?
Social Media is a fantastic way to connect and engage with your customers, potential customers, and build community around your brand. Networks like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Foursquare allow you to reach hundred and even thousands of people online. But unless your business is exclusively online you still want them to walk through your business’ ...
10 Facebook Tips to better Manage your Business Page
Small businesses across the U.S. are quickly adapting to the benefits of social media. A recent study conducted by the university of Maryland’s Smith School of Business found that small business technology adoption rates in the U.S. had doubled in the past year, from 12% to 24%. The study also concluded that one in five ...
Being social has its rewards. Like a FREE iPod Touch.
Didn’t your mother always tell you to play nice and make new friends. Well, over here the message is the same. (Mother was right!) We here at Socialmash like being social so much that we’re willing to reward you just for the effort in the form of a spakin’ new iPod Touch. From now ’til ...
What’s a Fan or ‘Like’ Really Worth?
“I Like You.” That phrase used to be worth only the self gratification it brought the recipient, but Facebook has nearly changed all that. Users on Facebook can now “Like” nearly everything across the web, subsequently sharing this information with their network of friends. But what are those fans actually worth to a company? Everyone ...
The Marketing your marketing could be like.
If you haven’t heard about or seen Old Spice’s commercials or Youtube video responses you likely either live under a rock or you have a phobia of the internet. (Aside: What would you call that? Internetphobia?) Two weeks ago Old Spice launched a several day viral internet campaign where Old Spice Guy, Actor Isaiah Mustafa, ...
Ford reveals new Ford Explorer via Facebook.
Can an intense social media campaign help Ford sell their new Ford Explorer? They’re sure hoping so. Ford is the latest corporate giant to embrace the use of social media to market their product and they’re doing it in an interesting way: By debuting their new Ford Explorer today exclusively on Facebook. Normally some big ...
How Business is Building Loyalty with Foursquare.
Foursquare? You mean that game I played at recess in middle school? Uh, not quite. We’re talking Foursquare, the mobile geo-location social game. Foursquare allows users to check-in to physical locations, share their location with friends, leave tips, earn badges, and attain “Mayorships,” where they can proudly proclaim their awesomeness by checking-in more often than ...