This is a book about how to use email to deliver low cost but very effective newsletters to hundreds and perhaps thousands of prospects, clients, customers, and other interested subscribers.
This book draws upon the wisdom and experiences of successful e-marketers. It includes additional resources such as an email newsletter glossary, checklists, and links to web sites.
The purpose of this book is to help you prepare effective email newsletters and to devise an email newsletter program that will help you achieve your goals. After reading this book you will be able to create very effective email newsletters for your business. Have fun!
Twitter is revolutionising the way information is spread across the globe and constantly gives us an indication of what our planet thinks, feels and does 24 hour a day. "Don't tell Ashton" is an extraordinary social experiment launched by students from the Berghs School of Communication in Sweden with the aim to explore the possibilities of social currency and prove the revolutionary power of Twitter and its 140 characters. How does it work?
Well, It is the first social artwork made by Twitter users! All you have to do is to join it by tweeting about it, so your profile picture will be visualised in the artwork giving a sense of your everyday online impact...the more the followers you have, the bigger the picture is in the frame. The artwork will be later made into a physical piece by Swedish artist Jon Holm. But, please don't tell Ashton Kutcher! He's got enough followers to fill the entire frame!
Here is a video with the explanation of the project...have a look!
And here is a video of the case history that proves the huge success of this social experiments.
This infographic from Get Satisfaction represents an interesting look at the evolution of the social consumer and the social crm. It also shows the change that social media is bringing to consumer behaviour and how this is leading brands to engage with consumers differently from the past.
Here is the Altimeter’s latest maturity roadmap on how to integrate social media into a website; it is based on dozens of interviews and evaluations of existing websites and covers lots of interesting case studies.
The roadmap shows us the evolution of the social corporate website through a six-steps path:
Here is a very useful how-to-do guide released by StrongMail. It covers best marketing practices, tips and practical advices to build your facebook community in five steps. The approach is not different from the basic of Marketing 101:
Understand your consumer and define your brand’s value proposition
Build awareness and acquire fans
Deliver value and engage your base
Test, track and measure performance
Optimize your efforts based on your learning and performance
I was looking around at my company for an online service supplier to get some job done online when I bumped into a brilliant site called Fiverr; a smart site that gets cool things done for you for just five dollars! Can you believe it?
Fiverr is a marketplace where users can claim any kind of task and service they are willing to provide to others at the cost of $5. The services provided range from social media services for business to content creation to financial services to funny and unusual performances. Have a look at the Fiverr social marketing page just to have an idea of what you can get for $5!
This site is also an easy way to make instant cash on the following services:
Gifts
Graphics
Video
Social Marketing
Travel
Writing
Postcards
Advertising
Music & Audio
Fun & Bizzare
Tips & Advice
Business
Technology
Programming.
Here is a video showing how Fiverr works and how to make money with it.
Facebook is an incredible channel for spreading your content to a huge and active audience; anyway, posting a video or a status update doesn't matter if no one sees it!
Here is an interesting presentation from HubSpot which is full of Tips&Tricks to get your content seen and shared on Facebook. It explains how Facebook ranks and filters content and what we can do to make sure our content makes the cut. I've olso included in this post the 2011 Facebook Page Marketing e-book.
These are 20 handy ideas for an effective content building strategy!
Post a variety of content to attract interactions from a higher percentage of your users, raising your affinity score.
Focus on positive and fun content on Facebook. Sex sells.*
Talk about Facebook - Facebook is the number one most shareable topic on Facebook.*
Respond to comments that your fans post on your content to increase the number of interactions per post.
Respond to comments that your fans post on your wall to increase your affinity score.
Experiment with targeting posts to get a higher feedback score (percentage of impressions that turn into interactions).
Post regularly, but not too frequently (more than once a day) to give each post a good chance of gaining traction.*
Post content outside of main work hours - Facebook users interact more when they're off the clock.*
Include images on blog posts you publish to create a more eye-catching post.
Don't forget to write an appealing meta description for any links you post, because Facebook automatically pulls this in for links.
Use share links on your blog articles and landing pages to encourage users to post your content directly.
Integrate landing pages within Facebook to get higher conversion rates - Facebookers don't like to leave Facebook.
Post videos directly instead of links to articles with videos, so users can watch the video within Facebook.
Include links in video descriptions to drive traffic back to your website.
To share photos but protect your copyright and get better analytics, use Flickr integrated with your Facebook account.
To share photos for maximum interactions, post photos directly to Facebook.
Refrain from using complex language or jargon in your posts for maximum response.*
Ask questions and specifically ask for feedback from your fans.
Use Facebook Insights to measure which content performs the best on your specific page.
Encourage user-generated content, including user-created photos, comments, or links.
Here is an handy e-book - released by BuddyMedia - which reveals us the 5 most important metrics we should be tracking on Facebook:
Tab View
Engagements
Clicks
Submits
News Feed Impressions
I hope you can read it directly from this page. Anyway, you should be able to download it somewhere here below or here
But let's now have a closer look at these Top Five Metrics:
1. Tab View: Tab View is roughly equivalent to Page View metric; it lets you know how many people are seeing your custom content. If your daily Tab View is lower than your daily Fan Increases, you've got your users going to the wrong place. But, if your Tab Views are higher than your daily Fan Increases, you're doing a good job of driving return visits.
2. Engagements: Engagement is the first action you want your users to take on your Page ( click-to-view for a video or click-to-vote for a poll)
3. Clicks: If you think at your Facebook Page as a driver to your website, the best way to measure users transictioning is by using a tracking URL from your analytics platform, so that you can identify how many referrals you're getting from Facebook to your website as well as how deep these fans are making it into your conversion funnel.
4. Submits: Submitions are the social equivalent of Conversions. You get success if you can get users and fans share your content with their friends via News Feed. On Facebook it's all about whether or not your user submits and shares.
5. News Feed Impressions: It relates to the amount of time your posts are displayed in your fans' News Feed. By tracking your News Feed messaging you can see how many times a day your content is hitting the Feed and the percentage of users who are interacting with that content.
Here is the e-Book! Hope it works...and please, let me know if you find it helpful.
Hi! My name is Pasquale Quarta, I'm a strategic planner and this is my "social notebook" I'd like to share with you. It tells us about smart Social Thinking in the Digital Revolution featuring people's behaviors and insights, social media strategies, digital trends and interactive marketing ideas...