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Tuesday
Mar092010

A Handy Guide to the Social Landscape

One of the primary barriers to entry for businesses trying to figure out social media is that they aren't clear on how it can help them.

There are so many social media outlets—which ones should you use, how should you use them, and what kinds of results should you expect? So many questions!

Here's a handy-dandy guide to the social media landscape, courtesy of CMO.com.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF

I like this because it tells you how to leverage the most popular social tools to support specific branding goals such as:

• customer communication

• brand exposure

• driving website traffic

• SEO

This is a terrific resource to pass around and share with your colleagues.

Ciao for now—

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Thanks to Drew McLellan of McLellan Marketing Group and to Stephanie Quilao for putting this on my radar!

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    As I speak to conference audiences across the country about social media, one of the questions I always get asked is... how do I know which social media sites to use? Of course... there is no single, magic or easy answer to that question. It all depends on your goals, your overall marketing strategy, your resources and your industry. It's not a cookie cutter sort of thing.
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    Handy visual: A Social Media Cheat Sheet: http://bit.ly/axaPGf by @DrewMcLellan
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    Social media marketing is expected to dominate this year -- so much so that 81% of CMOs plan to link their annual revenues to their social media investment, according to a recent survey by The CMO Club and Bazaarvoice. But the growing list of online social media sites makes choosing the right route complicated. From Facebook to YouTube to Digg and beyond, which media outlets will net the most bang for the buck in terms of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic, and SEO?

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