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How to Run a Successful Social Media Contest

How to Run a Successful Social Media Contest
Are you planning to run a social media contest (like this one)? Today it’s possible for anyone to achieve success engaging consumers online, thanks to the growing popularity and relative ease of execution of social media promotions. The fact that anyone can run a promotion doesn’t mean that everyone should, and it certainly doesn’t mean that a promotion guarantees social media success. So if you’re thinking of running a contest or sweepstakes, here are some key considerations. Start With the End in Mind Before jumping into a social media promotion, there are several important questions to ask: What are your marketing objectives? Which promotion is right for you? Consumer Engagement Model for Promotions At the base of the pyramid is the traditional enter-to-win format. This basic sweepstakes requiring users to Like the brand and complete a simple form to enter resulted in a doubling of Likes in a matter of days. Plan, Prepare and Prepare for the Unplanned Execution Over Concept

10 Ways To Be More Likeable Online Dave Kerpen is the CEO of award-winning social media agency Likeable Media and the author of Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, & Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks). I asked him to provide a list of the top ten ways to be more likeable online, and these are his recommendations: 1. Listen first and never stop listening Twitter search allows you to listen to people talking about you and your competitors. 2. As tempting as it might be to answer that person on Twitter or LinkedIn with, “Hey, I’m an accountant, call me”, resist. 3. How can you help your customers and prospects? 4. There’s a temptation to delete negative remarks or complaints from your Facebook Page or blog. 5. The next two most important words in social media marketing are “Thank you.” 6. 7. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are like the world’s largest focus group, there for you 24/7. 8. 9. You like when people are real with you, right? 10.

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5 YouTube Marketing Tips for Better Engagement Jason Weaver is the CEO of Shoutlet, an enterprise social management software company he founded. He has been involved in social media strategy development since its inception for brands that include Disney, SC Johnson, and eBay. In addition to its incredible success as the de facto portal for video uploads and viewing, YouTube is itself a community. For brands, it provides an additional viable opportunities to spark discussion with followers. It’s a place to build relationships and create a space for users to converse with each other about branded content. Just as Facebook has become an incredibly popular place for brands to maintain a dialogue with their customers, YouTube offers a similar opportunity, although the conversation is driven primarily by video content. So how do companies make the most of the conversations happening on YouTube? 1. A classic example of this is “Will it Blend?” 2. 3. 4. 5. “10,000 people in Acme’s YouTube community ‘liked’ this video.

The Most Complete Twitter Application List Available - 2011 Edition I believe this is the best, most complete and accurate list of valuable Twitter applications available on the internet right now. To be fair, I absolutely have merged and plagiarized other older and outdated lists that I found (the larger ones are credited below). However, I spent a good deal of time to clean out the dead applications, delete the apps that were overly quirky or being developed, focus more on the apps that increase productivity, and add in many of the new great apps that have come out over the past six months - particularly in the productivity / business apps section where my primary interest lies. I have also tagged the tools that cost money / have a premium option ($) as well as if they have a valuable free option (F/$). Finally, while application selection can be a personal thing, I tagged my favorite app (*) in each category. Simple Web Based Clients and Twitter Viewing Tools Twitter.com (*): Can't go wrong with this -- web, iPhone, etc. Track The Latest Trends and Tags

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