Top 25 Facebook Pages January 2013 + MORE 01/01/2013
The list of most popular pages on Facebook in January 2013 doesn’t look too different from September 2012 when we last covered the PageData Top 25.
The No. 1 and No. 2 spots are still held by Facebook’s own company pages. Facebook for Every Phone is the official page for Facebook’.... More »
America's Stunningly Overpriced Healthcare System In 2 Charts + MORE 12/02/2012
It's no secret that the U.S. spends a crippling amount of money on healthcare. Here's some global perspective from Credit Suisse. First is healthcare spending as a share of GDP. It's not hard to find the U.S. There are plenty of demographic idiosyncracies that may explain some of what we see above..... More »
Social Influence and Why Brands Need to Care #NMX + MORE 01/08/2013
Do brands care whether they have influence in social media? They certainly should, said members of the three-person panel on social influence at NMX Monday.
Jonathan Dick, Director of Business Development at Klout, kicked off the conversation with his thoughts that brands do care, though they may .... More »
Facebook Says These Are The 20 Best Brands On The Social Network + MORE 04/29/2013
When it comes to social media strategy, while brands like Oreo can create 100 brilliant Facebook posts 100 days in a row (to celebrate its 100th birthday, of course), other advertisers completely flounder. So Facebook decided to call out the brands that are doing the best work on the medium — .... More »
10 Ways To Maximize Your Professional Impact In 2013 12/29/2012
The New Year is a propitious time for businesses to re-prioritize their objectives and start afresh with renewed vigor and a clear mission. Setting – and following through on – thoughtful and apposite resolutions is an effective way to maximize results and impact for your company. In my .... More »
ATTENTION CITIZENS! Apple, Google, Amazon, And Facebook Have Declared World War 3
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Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are at each other’s throats in all sorts of ways… IT IS an epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, a tale of incursions and sieges, of plots and betrayals, of battlefield brilliance and of cunning with coin. The sequence of doorstop fantasy novels that George R.R. Martin began with “A Game of Thrones”, and which HBO has now turned into a hit television show, provides the sort of immersive experience of an alien world that has always been popular among techies…
Lead Generation and Business Lessons From the Batman
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In the fictional American city of Gotham, there resides an ever-watchful guardian, a so-called Dark Knight. As crime and corruption prevailed, one man decided to become the one thing that stood between justice and injustice. That man was Bruce Wayne. But most importantly, that man was the Batman. In lead generation, there are a few lessons which we can learn from the World’s Greatest Detective himself. Would you like to know them?Batman was born when Bruce Wayne’s parents were murdered in front of his very eyes by a common criminal…
A Look At The Epic Battle Between Google, Apple, Amazon, And Facebook
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Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are at each other’s throats in all sorts of ways. It is an epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, a tale of incursions and sieges, of plots and betrayals, of battlefield brilliance and of cunning with coin. The sequence of doorstop fantasy novels that George R.R. Martin began with “A Game of Thrones”, and which HBO has now turned into a hit television show, provides the sort of immersive experience of an alien world that has always been popular among techies…LinkedIn Releases Ads API: This Week in Social Media
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Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week?LinkedIn Introduces New Ads API: This new program will “empower developers to build custom tools and solutions specifically to help social marketers meet their goals.” LinkedIn’s Ads API program is only available to a select group of partners…
YouTube vs. Vimeo: What’s Best for Video Content Marketing?
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If you’ve ever hung out with a few video gurus, you’ve probably encountered the intense arguments over YouTube and Vimeo—which is better? What looks nicer? What option requires the most buffering?Listening to techy talk like this got me thinking—is there a marketing advantage to using one of the Internet’s two main video hosting options? Loyalists to either will say yes, but let’s evaluate the pros and cons.
From a content marketing standpoint, the variables to consider are pretty simple…