Get Your Campaign in the Social Stream This Holiday Season Roger Katz | Social Media Smarts | | | There's a lot more to successful social promotions than getting a Like; thankfully, the land grab for Likes is over. Yes, brands should continue to invest in growing their audience on social, but the KPI for brand marketing this holiday season is mindshare. Is your social audience participating, engaging, and most importantly, sharing in the social stream? Did your promotion get passed along? When you reached one social fan, did you successfully reach their friends and colleagues,... | Twitter Pulls Trigger on $1B IPO Plans Matt Kapko | Social Media | | | Twitter just tore the roof of its business, letting the public, potential investors and any armchair quarterback on Wall Street take the deepest look to date into its financial dealings and prospects. By revealing its S-1 documents that were previously filed with the SEC, Twitter set in motion its plans to raise as much as $1 billion selling 472,613,753 shares and becoming a public-traded company under the symbol “TWTR.” While Twitter’s initial public offering is expected... | Create Audience Experiences That Drive Recommendations Dave Evans | Social Media Smarts | | | Predictable traffic and favorable recommendations drive business. Accomplishing these feats is easier said than done; however, the easiest way to ensure positive recommendations is to create experiences that are talked set in a context where sharing is easy. We've seen many real-world examples of this recently. Here are three instances of online experience creation that stand out, alongside a fourth "extra point" that may surprise you. 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The site, which takes it look from Pinterest and other visual-based communities, lets members who start liking specific products set up a personalized newsfeed, where they see shopping recommendations from people and brands they chose to follow. The site also shows them what products are trending in the community and... | Total Cost of Ownership Needed to Grasp Relationship ROI As advertising shifts from big splashes toward ongoing conversations, we need a TCO approach to better understand relationship ROI. Gary Stein | Strategies | Print version 5 PPC Iterations You Ignore at Your Peril Andrew Goodman shares five typical PPC tactics you can't afford to ignore and suggestions on how you'll have to iterate once you get them running. Andrew Goodman | Paid Search | Print version Personas: The Magic Behind the Mirror Personas are complex creatures, like your customers. Learn to create personas that are truly effective in helping you develop your content marketing and persuasive strategy. 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