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What Social Media Is Most Important To You?

What Social Media Is Most Important To You? | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Most Important Social Media
Friend asked a great question but in the wrong way. Social Media isn't important to me in and of itself, but each social media channel can help communicate marketing messages and thus become valuable and important.

Key is "matching the hatch" to borrow a fly fishing term.

Matching the hatch puts the right kind of content, what Gary Vaynerchuk calls "native content', on each social net when THAT information is important to communicating a marketing message. Here is how I answered:

Depends on what I'm trying to accomplish.

If I want comments and discussion GPlus.
If I want feedback from friends Facebook.
If I want to generally test Scoop.it.
If I want a "set it and forget it" content solution Paper.li.
If I have something happening now or want to newsjack Twitter.
To raise money on creative or gaming projects Kickstarter.
If I want to share videos YouTube.

If I want to serialize stories Storify.
If I want to test an infographic Pinterest. 
If I want to do something with audio then SmartCloud.
If I want to create sustainable and potentially "evergreen" content then I use WP blogs. Content becomes "evergreen" based on how it performs (views, shares, conversions).
If I want to sell something ecom then Shopify. 

Match the hatch to get the most from your content, your growing social media tribe, your time and content marketing and curation efforts.  


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malek's curator insight, January 15, 2014 11:00 AM

It's the singer, not the song. Thrilling article about match the hatch for your content

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10 Reasons Your Business Still Doesn't Use Pinterest

10 Reasons Your Business Still Doesn't Use Pinterest | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Here's our admittedly tongue in cheek list of reasons your small businesses still might not be using Pinterest. Join in the fun.

 

Recent reports suggest Pinterest is well on its way to being one of the biggest social networks ever.

 

A study last month indicates that while Facebook still maintains its domination with 67 percent of American Internet users, Twitter, the second runner up with 16 percent of the same audience, may soon be overtaken by Pinterest, which now has about 15 percent.


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Marie Skødt's curator insight, June 6, 2013 8:22 PM

Også om Pinterest 

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The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann

The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

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“Pinterest, which CEO Ben Silbermann describes as a tool that helps people find inspiration, is now the third-largest source of referral traffic on the Internet.


But growth wasn’t easy for the company, Silbermann told a rapt audience at Y Combinator’s Startup School at Stanford University on Saturday.


The way Pinterest grew had little to do with Silicon Valley wisdom. It was about marketing — mostly grassroots marketing — not better algorithms.”

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Animoto Adds Pinterest to Share Awesome Photo Videos

Animoto Adds Pinterest to Share Awesome Photo Videos | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Make the visual connection with your photography audience using Animoto videos that add spiked punch to flat image! Now you can share those videos to Pinterest, the latest favorite for the visually stimulated kids, err, people. Get those images in Animoto and start a brand spanking new campaign for your photography business. ANY business could benefit from a great video!

 

Social Media Photography is a tool. Embrace it!

-Nakeva

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Pinterest Get a Little More Personal With New 'Edit Home Feed' Feature

Pinterest Get a Little More Personal With New 'Edit Home Feed' Feature | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Pinterest wants to make the site more engaging and interesting for you, so in the next few weeks it will be trying out new ways to help you see more of the pins you like, and fewer of those you don't.

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10 Creative Ways to Market on Pinterest | Jeffbullas's Blog

10 Creative Ways to Market on Pinterest | Jeffbullas's Blog | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it
Pinterest is a fast emerging visually oriented social network that provides a platform that can bring out the creative marketer. So how can you market your business on Pinterest whether you are a B2B or a B2C company?

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France Lafleur's curator insight, February 13, 2013 7:07 PM

Le pouvoir attractif des images et Pinterest.

Joakim Baage's curator insight, February 22, 2013 10:29 AM

Make sure images are part of your content marketing mix!

TalkativeMedia's curator insight, March 12, 2013 3:31 PM

Pinterest is a "must" for today's small business. If you have a niche market, you cannot afford to be without a Pinterest profile.  

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13 Examples Of Positive Impact Of Combining Photos With Social

13 Examples Of Positive Impact Of Combining Photos With Social | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

If you are curious of why Facebook bought Instagram for so much money or why Pinterest is worth so much money... the answer is our societies shift to attraction to photos is the age of information over-load.  Also, we have been hard-wired to visual communication since our cave-man days.  Here are 13 great examples of how and why adding strategic photos to social media can help your marketing.

Ken Morrison

Social media photos: how to expand your social media presence with photos that attract and engage readers.


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B2B Marketing & Pinterest: 5 Tips for Becoming the Ultimate Pinner

B2B Marketing & Pinterest: 5 Tips for Becoming the Ultimate Pinner | Latest Social Media News | Scoop.it

Want the skinny on using Pinterest to promote your b2b marketing? Follow these five tips and kick-start your brand’s expansion into this emerging social media phenomenon.

 

1. Advertising and infographics rule the b2b marketing pins

 

Today, B2B marketers can get tons of great examples of award winning infographics and advertising campaigns on Pinterest. For that alone it’s an amazing resource. However, for other types of marketing, well, my fellow marketers, we have some work to do. Imagine a Pinterest page filled with pins of amazing fashion, inspirational interior design, stunning landscapes, and a screenshot of your low production value product demo video…um, it’s nice you have a presence, but how does that pin of a crappy screenshot of a crappy video look next to the rest of these other magnificent pins?

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/Jc8ObA


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