social media marketing

See full article: www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/03/23/daily24.html?jst=b_ln_hl

FULL ARTICLE: www.podcastingnews.com/2009/03/24/advertisers-switching-to-social-media/

This is an article I was recently interviewed for:
From: http://medillmoneymavens.com/2009/03/05/social-media-marketing-businesss-new-bff/
BY HOLLIS TEMPLETON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
While everyone—and I mean everyone—is wired to social networking sites, marketers are tapping into mainstream use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
It’s called social media marketing and it allows companies to manage brand reputations, get closer to their customers [...]

Great article over at www.web20portals.com on finding more followers and people to follow:
http://www.web20portals.com/web-20-news/14-twitter-directories-to-find-new-friends
14 Twitter directories to find new friends
Digg.com founder Kevin Rose is at it again with a Twitter directory called WeFollow. And although it’s capturing much of the limelight right now, it’s not the only service of its kind. In fact, there are [...]

Forrester indicates in their new report that companies are bullish on social media marketing, and over half intend to increase budgets even though the economy could be experiencing recession in the next six months. A new report from Forrester on the social media scene has found that over half of the 145 interactive marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their social media budgets. “Social Media Playtime Is Over,” the title for this report revealed 5% expects to decrease budgets and 42% will remain the same with their outlay.

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