How to Use Photos on Facebook: Sizes, Dimensions, and Types Facebook Begins Testing Sponsored Results, Its First Search Typeahead Ads Heads up, Google. Facebook is testing a new format of search ads called Sponsored Results that lets advertisers show ads in the Facebook search typeahead to users looking for a particular Page, app, or Place. It basically will let businesses divert traffic from each other. For example, a competing game company could target Zynga’s CityVille so anyone searching for “CityVille” would see an ad leading to their game alongside the organic search result leading to Zynga’s game. The Sponsored Results will look just like organic results in the typeahead search box atop every page, except for being marked with a tiny word “Sponsored”. Sponsored Results are not keyword ads. The Sponsored Results will not appear on the full Facebook Search results page, only in the typeahead. This new ad format can only direct users to on-Facebook properties, but that includes an on-Page application or a specific Page post. Advertisers can target multiple entities that people are searching for at a time.
Altitude Branding – World's Best Branding and Marketing Blog Social Media Explorer Scott Monty 10 Steps for Successful Social Media Monitoring Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @attensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company's blog. Recently I wrote about the differences in social media monitoring and measurement, as well as the importance of doing both. However, taking the first step to actually start monitoring can be daunting. How do you engage? I've developed these throughout my career and as part of my regular listening, participating and contributing to the space. 1. Why are you monitoring? Having an end goal in mind will help you target your resources correctly, select the right tool for the job and be more effective in the end. 2. Social media is relationship and conversation media. 3. Recall that monitoring is keyword-based, and thus selection of the right keywords is important. 4. 5. 6. 7.
10 règles pour réussir son concours sur Facebook Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Digital Business | Jeremiah Owyang discusses how technology enables companies to connect with customers By Jeremiah Owyang, from Silicon Valley In many respects, Silicon Valley sits atop the world. Its growth and influence has made it the globe’s top location for innovation, STEM jobs, IT patents, venture capital funding, and Internet and software growth, and Unicorn startups galore. And yet there’s also been a shift in the Valley’s culture. One could argue that there’s an emergence of signs that strikingly resemble Detroit in the glory days of the age of transportation. In Detroit’s case, where I visited earlier this week, the Motor City reveled in its dominance in the 1950s, but growing social unrest soon culminated in a massive riot in the late 1960s. Here are four threats, aside from natural disaster, or whole scale physical attack for Silicon Valley today, along with a futuristic probing of their possible conclusions in the coming decades: Threat Two: Lack of Economic Diversity Means FragilityOne industry in a single city is a risk.
How To Write Your Social Media Plan in 8 Steps Maybe it’s because you’re in marketing. Maybe it’s because you’re from the younger generation assumed to be digital natives. Or maybe it’s because you’re already experimenting with social media and your success has been noticed. For whatever reason, The Powers That Be have chosen you to write your company’s social media plan. Where do you start? Here are some ideas on the main topics you need to cover in creating an impressive, yet realistic social media plan that garners executive buy-in and a clearer path to success. 1. Start your social media plan with some startling statistics and pithy quotes about the huge shift away from traditional publishing towards social media. If you wrote this plan two years ago, you would have leaned on the endorsement of old media with quotes like this: “Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. But now you can tell the big opportunity of social media by just relying on social media’s accomplishments. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Facebook Earns 58% More Per Ad Than Last Year, Mobile Ads Clicked 4X More Than Twitter Ads Facebook yesterday saw a decline in share price on a report of falling user numbers in key markets like the U.S. and Europe, but in a sign of how it is firming up its business, Facebook is also making significantly more money and getting more sticky with its advertising, on the back of newer, more targeted ad formats like Sponsored Stores and mobile ads. The latest quarterly report from ad agency TBG Digital, out today, indicates that cost per thousand impressions (CPMs) on ads on the social network rose by 58 percent compared to the same period last year, with overall engagement also up by 11 percent, a reversal of the decline seen last quarter. And among Facebook’s newer units that target people more directly, Sponsored Stories saw 53 percent more engagement than standard ads, and mobile ads had four times the engagement of Twitter ads, says TBG. What’s behind the rise? Meanwhile, it looks like the introduction of those newer formats is also having a knock-on effect in ad engagement.
5 Tips To Make Your Blog Posts More Social This is a guest post by Andrew K Kirk from Face The Buzz. Social Media and Blogging have always played nicely together. Bloggers need platforms to distribute posts and Social Media thrives on material for users to consume – it’s a great match. Put these 5 tips to use and your blog can become much more social, which means more readers and deeper interaction. 1. Twitter’s Embedded Tweet feature allows you to incorporate any tweet into your blog. Marketing Principles Learned from Volkswagen – @socialmouths ow.ly/ccBii— Francisco Rosales(@socialmouths) July 12, 2012 Of course you can see the tweet text, but you can do so much more. 2 . You just wrote a killer blog post and your readers are now much wiser. Shareaholic With over 1.6 million downloads, this social sharing tool is used on a lot of sites. Digg Digg Face The Buzz Blog used Shareaholic – that was until I found Digg Digg. 3. I really like this technique because it is beneficial for your reader and you. Choose your text. 4. 5. Disqus