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Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/586da8bb/think_before_you_e) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Think Before You Engage: 100 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Social Media Marketing Campaign" to their offering.

Be sure you've addressed the most important questions before using social media to market your company or brand!

From small business owners to job seekers, social media marketing campaigns are being started every day. However, without the proper prep work, campaigns fail, brands or organizations are impacted, customers are not engaged, and money and efforts are wasted. This invaluable guide answers all the most important questions to consider before starting a marketing campaign using social media so you can avoid common pitfalls.

Social media guru and author David Peck presents you with a working knowledge of the different social media tools that are needed to effectively embark on a social media marketing campaign.

- Guides you through defining goals, setting up a web site, using pertinent social networks, linking sites together, building a community, and monitoring progress

- Features numerous real-world stories that offer unique insight on what to do and what not to do

- Shares simple tips for developing a web site with no code required

- Sifts through the enormous amount of social media available and helps you select which is most appropriate for your needs

- Addresses how to locate and engage people and then keep them coming back

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BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire -04/16/12)- Awareness Inc., leading provider of on-demand social marketing management software (SMMS), today announced a new weekly Social Scorecard. The Awareness Social Scorecard monitors week-over-week social media fan gains and losses by brands representing industries most actively using social media as part of their marketing strategy to determine who won the social media 'battle' that week. Social media winners from the initial Social Scorecard include Pringles, Monster Energy, McDonald's, Nike and Reebok. Pepsi's Twitter account is the only social property that decreased in followers.

The Awareness Social Scorecard tracks the social media performance of brands and companies in nine industries -- Airlines, Footwear and Athletic Apparel, Comics, Fast Food, Beverages, Celebrities, Favorite Foods, Hospitality Loyalty Programs, and Gaming. It reports weekly gains and losses to Twitter followers and Facebook fans, identifying the week's winners in each of the industries monitored and analyzing fan growth by channel and industry. It uses this data to identify notable weekly performances and attempts to correlate performance to campaigns and/or events.

The first Social Scorecard, released last week, reports social fan growth for from April 3-10, 2012. It shows all industries, except Airlines, are seeing significantly more Twitter growth than Facebook growth. It also identifies the most competitive industry/ network category for the week as Footwear and Athletic Apparel on Twitter, with each brand experiencing a growth rate over 1%, leading to a total category growth of 3.6%.

The brands selected for inclusion demonstrate a consistently high level of sophistication in their social media programs:

"Using the technology powering the Awareness Social Marketing Hub, the new Social Scorecard will encourage a little friendly competition among leading brands using social media by revealing which companies were the big winners each week," says Mike Lewis, vice president of marketing and sales for Awareness, Inc. "The Scorecard will also serve as a benchmark for those marketers wanting to emulate the best-in-class performance of leading brands."

The Social Scorecard will be updated each Friday at http://www.awarenessnetworks.com/learning/social-media-score-card-main.

About Awareness, Inc.Awareness, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise-class, on-demand social marketing management software (SMMS) for marketers to publish and manage social content, engage with their audience and measure the effectiveness their social media activities across multiple social media channels. The Awareness Social Marketing Hub is built upon Awareness' expertise with some of the world's leading brands and marketing agencies including MLB, Sony Pictures, Comcast, Likeable Media, Associated Press, Cox Communications, Mindjumpers and American Cancer Society.

About The Awareness Social Marketing HubThe Awareness Social Marketing Hub is built to address the challenges marketers face managing multiple social channels. The Social Marketing Hub is the first enterprise-class application for serious marketers who want to plan, implement and measure meaningful social media strategies across the organization.

Interested in learning more or seeing the Hub in action?

Connect with Awareness

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Weekly Social Media Winners: Pringles, Monster Energy, McDonald's, Nike and Reebok

30-03-2012 11:12 Listen to MarketingSherpa discuss the strategies behind the monetization of your social media marketing channel. Join us as we reveal the following in this hour-long webinar, courtesy of Facebook: • How to get to the Strategic phase of social marketing maturity • How priorities for social marketing are changing in the C-suite • What's driving the investment in social media programs • How integrating social media increased revenue 25%-40% quarterly • Tactics for measuring social media's contribution to the bottom line • A formula for calculating social marketing return on investment

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30-03-2012 02:30 Social Marketing is the design, implementation and control of marketing activity intended to promote social causes or ideas within a target group in a society; a form of non-profit marketing. - created at

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Salem, MA (PRWEB) March 30, 2012

As we enter the second quarter of 2012, many companies have resolved to finally take the leap into social media marketing. According to Amy Grishman, CEO of Social Focus Marketing, "Social media provides smaller companies with the opportunities to market themselves in the same way major, global brands do. However, for small businesses with limited staff, the task may seem especially daunting as many questions undoubtedly loom. Where should we start? How do we start? How are Facebook and Twitter going to help my business? Who will take on the responsibility?" Here are five tips Grishman says will help any company get started:

1.Recognize the benefits and define goals. All too often CEOs and campaign managers are only concerned with how social media marketing will translate into revenue and ignore the other benefits. Often overlooked is the opportunity to connect with current customers and clientele, raise brand awareness and improve brand reputation, acquire feedback, crowd source new ideas and products, and the list goes on.

2.Join the following five networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn, and YouTube. It will only take a couple of minutes per network to sign up, and each is designed with step-by-step instructions to make the process as seamless as possible for even the most novice user. Companies skeptical about joining YouTube should consider that, according to Nielsen, 90% of all web traffic will be video by 2014. Taking advantage of the vast pools of Internet users who frequent these networks is essential, and companies should secure their names on these platforms.

3.Measure results. Although there are many platforms through which to track social media data, Google Analytics will provide a panoramic view of an overall marketing strategy. This powerful tracking software is free and will diligently monitor website activity, visits from social media profiles as well as other websites, visitor demographics and much more. This data offers insight into customers' activity, and measures the overall health of a marketing campaign, allowing a small business to rapidly respond to changes in consumer behavior, and to adjust their marketing strategies accordingly.

4.Companies should add social media links to their websites, blogs, email signatures, and business cards. Adding social media links in all the aforementioned places will help grow fan base in an unobtrusive and organic way. Once profiles are active, companies should spread the word to give their profiles an initial fan boost; letting their personal and professional networks know.

5.Outsource, if needed. Finally, it is important to keep fans actively engaged. Allowing accounts to languish will be more detrimental than not having accounts at all. If a small business cannot find time to log into their profiles more than a couple times per week to post updates, communicate with fans, answer questions, etc., it may be time to consider outsourcing social media management to an Internet marketing firm. For a fixed fee every month, one can hire a social media management team adept at engaging audiences and promoting brands effectively (most often this is much more cost effective than hiring an additional staff member). This team will represent a small business and provide sales, marketing, client/customer service, and PR all in one.

Social media is an organic and essential part of business today. Long gone are the days when people would see their local shop owners daily and stop by for a chat, but as the world has grown bigger, it has also grown smaller again through the connectedness of social media. Customers will be stopping by for a chat virtually, possibly from thousands of miles away, and they are talking about a product or service to someone else possibly thousands of miles away in the other direction. Small businesses cant afford to miss this opportunity!

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