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Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 6, 2011 · 6 Comments
Share I’m a huge fan of LinkedIn. In addition to being the biggest business social network with some 135 million+ users worldwide, it is a social networking platform that delivers business leads to me and to my clients on a regular basis. Without question, LinkedIn proves itself worthy of the time we invest there – [...]
Filed under Apps, Featured Articles, Free Resources, Linked In and Business Networking, Mobile and Location Based Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips and Training, Social Media Tools · Tagged with apps, CardMunch, iPhone apps, LinkedIn apps, LinkedIn apps for productivity, LinkedIn for business development, networking apps, social networking
Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 5, 2011 · 8 Comments
Share I wrote a post a week or so ago about receiving what I thought was pretty horrible customer service at the hands of a local dentist. The post received a lot of feedback and it wasn’t really all that surprising that I wasn’t the only person to have received such crummy customer service at [...]
Filed under Brand and Reputation Management, Business Intelligence, Customer Service, Digital Marketing, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, Online Marketing · Tagged with brand management, Dr. Jeffrey Brown, examples of great brand management, Francisco Rosales, free tools for brand management, free tools for reputation management, how to manage your brand in the online space, online tools for brand and reputation management, reputation management, reputation management services, reputation management tools, Romanelli Dental, SocialMention, SocialMouths, tools for reputation management, Ubervu
Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 29, 2011 · 6 Comments
ShareMarketers and brands alike are excited because Google+ recently announced that businesses can now build pages. If you’re a nonprofit interested in using Google+, you’ve come to the right place. A week or so ago, we covered how businesses can explore using Google+, and now, we’ve got some suggestions for our nonprofit friends on maximizing G+. [...]
Filed under Blog Marketing, Content Marketing, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, marketing, Online Marketing, Pop Culture and Current Events, social media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips and Training, Social Media Tools, Strategies and Tactics, Website Marketing · Tagged with Direct Connect, free resources for nonprofits, Google, nonprofit organizations, nonprofits and social media, social media for nonprofits, social networking for nonprofits
Posted by Michelle Mangen on November 10, 2011 · 3 Comments
Share We love tools. And tricks. And treats. Oh wait, that’s a different post! Seriously, we’re messing with documents on a regular basis (or at least I am, since my job is to keep everyone else – and our clients – not only looking good, but sane). And one thing I’m asked about on a [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 8, 2011 · 6 Comments
Share Google announced yesterday that businesses can now create and build Google+ pages, the latest in a series of Google+ announcements—and one that brings to life a highly anticipated feature in what was, until now, a consumer-driven site. It’s no surprise that a number of businesses have already jumped on the Google+ bandwagon, including NPR, [...]
Posted by Michelle Mangen on November 2, 2011 · 7 Comments
Share It’s no secret that at V3, we like tools that help make social media marketing and analysis better, and things that help us do what we do more efficiently and effectively. And when it comes to tracking impact, gathering stats and reporting, we love those tools even more. We wrote about Visibli last October, [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Free Resources, Online Marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips and Training, Social Media Tools, Tactics and Tips · Tagged with free social media resources, free Twitter tools, how to track social media engagement, How to Track social media stats, Obtaining Click Through Rates on Tweets, Social Media Tools, Twitter Statistics, Visibli, Visibli stat tracking
Posted by Shelly Kramer on October 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Share The Social Media Masters Conference made a stop in Kansas City last week and it was great to be a workshop presenter. The topic I tackled: Corporate Blogging: How to Use Blogging for Leads and Sales, is a perpetual favorite. I speak at conferences several times a month in cities all over the U.S., [...]
Filed under Blog Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Events / Training, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, marketing, Marketing Tips, Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing · Tagged with content marketing, corporate blogging, corporate blogging best practices, inbound marketing, inbound marketing strategies, kansas city marketing agencies, Kansas City Social Media, Kansas City Social Media Marketing, kansas city social media masters, social media club, social media masters
Posted by Michelle Mangen on October 20, 2011 · 23 Comments
Share It’s a fact: there are rarely enough hours in the day to get the work you need to do done. And adding social media into your marketing mix only makes it more complicated. Know you want to use social channels (Twitter in particular) and participate in social media, but also know that you can’t [...]
Filed under Digital Marketing, Featured Articles, Free Resources, marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips and Training, Social Media Tools, Strategies and Tactics, Tactics and Tips · Tagged with Buffer, Buffer App, Buffer for Twitter, Free Twitter Scheduling Software, Free Twitter Software, free Twitter tools, How to Schedule Tweets, Timely, Timely App, Twitter Scheduling Tools
Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 23, 2011 · 9 Comments
ShareIf you work in social media, PR or marketing, likely you already know of and use a bunch of social platforms and tools. Most of us know the big dogs — platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., but there are a LOT of other social sites and tools out there that you might not know about. [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Free Resources, Online Marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Tips and Training · Tagged with Erik Qualman, Jay-Z, Overdrive Interactive, social media, social media monitoring, social media resources, Social Media Tools, Socialnomics
ShareWhat better way to celebrate an exciting announcement than with something free? This weekend, that’s exactly Skype’s plan. The service, which has already established itself as a cost-effective way to communicate via phone or video chat, has made itself even more indispensable with availability on iOS. You can now download the Skype WiFi app and [...]
Filed under Apps, Featured Articles, Free Resources · Tagged with apps for business, business resources, free Skype weekend, new apps, Skype app, Skype iOS, Skype iPad, Skype iPhone, Skype iPod Touch
Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 9, 2011 · 9 Comments
Share With the rate at which information travels in our digital age and with mobile data consumption on the rise, people are less patient than ever before when it comes to website load times — and mobile users demand speed. We are obsessed with speed. If browsers aren’t loading quickly enough, those of us who are mobile [...]
Filed under Blog Marketing, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, Marketing Tips, Marketing Tools, Mobile and Location Based Marketing, Online Marketing, Website Marketing · Tagged with Jon Aston, Kansas City Marketing Agency, Kansas City mobile marketing, mobile, mobile marketing, mobile technology, Strangeloop, web design, website conversions, website design best practices, website load time
Posted by Katherine Meyer on August 8, 2011 · 2 Comments
ShareWhether you love them or hate them (or maybe even have no idea what they are), QR codes are quickly gaining popularity as marketing tools. We have talked a lot about how mobile communications are the next big frontiers–and people like Patrick Donnelly, CEO of QR Arts, laud these 2D barcodes as “…an opportunity to turn a [...]
Filed under Apps, Featured Articles, Free Resources, marketing, Marketing Tools, Mobile and Location Based Marketing, Online Marketing, Tactics and Tips · Tagged with free QR code generators, Kansas City mobile marketing, marketing, mobile apps, mobile marketing, mobile strategy, mobile technology, QR Arts, QR code best practices, QR codes, ZXing Project
Posted by Katherine Meyer on August 2, 2011 · 4 Comments
Share What you say? There’s an app for creating a book of Facebook memories? WooHoo! Before you laugh, remember that people love stuff. Harry Potter fanatics buy Lego figurines, replias of invisibility cloaks and wizard wands. Twihards (a/k/a those obsessed with the Twilight series) buy dolls, clothes, posters…heck, they probably even buy Twilight-themed sleeping bags. Ergo, if the societal [...]
Filed under Apps, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, social media, Social Media Marketing · Tagged with app for Facebook book, Cabot Soup Swap, Facebook apps, Facebook memories book, social media, socialmedia, socialmedia apps, SocialMemories
Posted by Katherine Meyer on August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Share We recently wrote about using a cool Instagram app that takes your stellar Instagram stream and converts it into a screen saver for your Mac. Well, we found another cool way to leverage your Instagram photos with — wait for it — the newest, and to some, the hottest new social channel out there, [...]
Filed under Apps, Featured Articles, Free Marketing Resources, Free Resources, Marketing Tools, Pop Culture and Current Events, Social Media Tips and Training, Tactics and Tips · Tagged with apps, Google Plus photos, Google+ tips, Instadrop, Instagram, integrating Instagram into Google+, Kansas City Social Media Marketing, photos into Google+, Picasa
Posted by Katherine Meyer on July 13, 2011 · 4 Comments
ShareSo there are a ton of plugins out there that beef up your browser and generally make it more dynamic and useful. One cool plugin I stumbled across that does just that is Rapportive. Rapportive is a free plugin for Chrome and Safari users. Sorry IE users! A quick aside — why in the world [...]
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