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As the hype of social media begins to die down and companies re-evaluate their efforts with a steely-eyed look at the cost versus benefits, I think it is time to re-visit this important question: Does everybody need a social media strategy?
If you’re only looking at social media strategy for success, you’re only seeing half the picture.
By Mars Dorian, Contributing {grow} Columnist Control. Humans are suckers for it. There’s a little Darth Vader in all of us – the little dictator who only supports
It’s getting more difficult to stand out online, isn’t it? Mars Dorian provides a colorful guide to cutting through the noise and becoming the signal.
Your most loyal customers don’t see you as a company. They see you as a friend? Hos can you use social media to make that friendship flourish?
Beyond loyalty, “emotional branding” builds a fanbase that will defend you no matter what. Here are the six stages of that process.
Is journalism the new marketing? Does “truth” sell? The social web has brought these fields together in ways that might surprise you!
Even if you were not caught up in the Royal Wedding frenzy, if you were a breathing human being you couldn’t help but catch a
By Sidneyeve Matrix, Contributing {grow} Columnist We know that people prefer to connect with other people, not brands. Not too long ago, Mark wrote about
Let’s start this post with a little quiz. I’ve assembled a few Twitter avatars from my Twitter stream. Take a look at the line-up and
I crawled through the nooks and crannies of the UK and France over the past two weeks and while I enjoyed my share of fine

Unless you’ve been in a cave this week, it would have been hard to avoid the splendid, amazing and entertaining Old Spice media blitz, which
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