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How to Run a Successful Social Media Contest

May 24, 2011

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. However, if executed as part of a comprehensive social media strategy, social media contests can produce tremendous results no matter how large or small

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Startup Company Eliminates the Cold Call With Twitter

May 23, 2011

Many salespeople swear by cold calling. But the inherent problem with it? Interrupting people when they're otherwise engaged. The person might be amenable – or might be turned off.

"We spent a lot of time cold calling or direct emailing," said Craig Robertson, co-founder and CEO of ecycler.com. "We would catch people when they were busy and they didn't want to talk to us."

ecycler.com, founded in 2009, is an Internet-age twist on the cash-for-cans concept. Rooted in the belief that one man's trash is another man's treasure, the site

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A Simple Way to Calculate Social Media Return on Investment

May 20, 2011

Social media return on investment (ROI) is simply a measurement of efficiency. It's a lot of things to a lot of people: "return on inactivity," "return on innovation" and "return on engagement."

However, in a stricter sense, social media ROI is defined as a measure of the efficiency of a social media marketing campaign. This definition might sound complicated, but in reality, it's quite simple.

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