The latest trends in branding or rebranding of companies are out of the box. A lot of creative thinking and marketing techniques are required to be successful in today’ tough economy.
Social Media Topics
Social Brand Visibility: Klout
Klout measures the impact a brand or a person has on the social media network. It is a social media analytics company.
How to Protect Your Digital Brand Online
One of the first things the small or large business manager needs to learn is how to protect your digital brand online. Your digital brand is comprised of everything that is online about you so it is important to know what is already there before going any further.
Social Brand Visibility: Connotea (Great Academic Tool)
Essentially you can create a library of important articles for research and study. There is nothing to download to your computer and there is no need for cutting and pasting. References can be public, private or shared with a selected group.
Social Brand Visibility: Multiply, Social Media for Grown Ups
While Facebook is hip, young and aimed at teenagers and young adults, Multiply’s average users range from the late 20s to the upper 30s. Facebook wants to help you increase the number of your virtual friends, while Multiply aims to help you stay in touch with your existing, real friends, colleagues and family.
Can you buy Reviews? The new marketing tools to beat the system?
There are many sources for reviews on the web to help your product or service get the attention it deserves. It is also a great way to find out what the public thinks about you. Some are well known like Amazon.com but there are many others that can be a valuable resource too. Some of the sources for reviews are targeted towards specific products but most are varied.
How to be Proactive about Social Networking and protect your Brand
Social networking is here to stay and if you want to stay in business you had better learn to proactively manage it. It involves more than setting up a Facebook page or Twitter account, it involves searching, responding, and making sure there are positive things said about you on the web. It also involves employee training so rules are defined before a problem occurs.
Social Brand Visibility: Gowalla, Mobile Web
Founded in 2007, and launched in 2009, this Austin Texas Company is the brain child of Josh Williams and Scott Raymond. It is a competitor to Foursquare and had a similar launch. Foursquare took off immediately and now Gowalla is catching up with them.
Top Ten Twitter Tools for 2011: Used by Banks and Businesses
One of the greatest things about using Twitter to promote your business is that it is free. Some of the tools used to manage Tweets are not free but many people find them invaluable and don’t mind paying for the benefits.
Picking the Right Social Network for your Brand
As for internet visibility, or digital brand as it is being called now, 2010 proved, without a doubt, the power of the social network. Facebook just passed Google in the number of hits per day. People are using the internet to connect and be connected more than they use it to perform searches.