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How to Create a Facebook Contest

Running a contest on your Facebook page is a popular and effective strategy. According to a poll conducted by Econsultancy, special offers and promotions are the first reason for Facebook users to “like” a Facebook page. By running a contest, you can have the opportunity to make your Facebook page more fun, build a list of people interested in your business and expand the number of your fans. If you

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July 31, 2012

How Do Large Companies Promote Using Social Media?

With millions of people using social media sites, companies have turned towards social media as a virtually unlimited resource for attracting new customers and making new sales. There are several ways large companies can use social media to promote their brands and take advantage of these opportunities. Offer Exclusive Coupons Many large companies offer exclusive coupons only to customers who join their Facebook and Twitter pages. This strategy is particularly

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July 31, 2012

Crowdsourcing and User-Generated Content

Marden-Kane helps business owners and marketers develop strategies for marketing though the use of such promotional marketing tools as sweepstakes, contests and instant-win games. Our company has vast experience in launching campaigns with impressive returns. We use concepts such as crowdsourcing and user-generated content to solicit feedback from customers and help business owners improve their products or services. Some of our most reputable clients have used these concepts to achieve

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July 31, 2012

Facebook and the $104 Billion Question.

Facebook made playing tag cool again. We’re speaking, of course of tagging and being tagged in photos. This social functionality may seem easy to take and easy to forget but like a gateway drug it cut a path for businesses to attempt to tap into more consuming behaviors from highly engaged Facebook users. It is not the number of total users spread around the globe that matters to businesses. The

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May 18, 2012

What UGC Means to Your Brand

The premise is that branded content is marketing currency. That’s always been true, but today the content is coming as much from the actual buyer experience as from the marketer. Sorting through the enormous amount of user generated content for the purpose of extending brand value is something brands must seriously look into. Buyers consume content about a product or service that educates them, provides points of differentiation between providers

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October 20, 2011

Is Social Media Free?

There has been a lot of discussion with clients about the value of integrating Social Media into promotion plans. Some clients believe that since all the tools are widely available (“free”), that the efforts around Social Media should be provided for “free”. This is where the disconnect often starts. While clients are correct in stating that creating a Facebook Fan Page, or Blog, or Twitter presence is relatively easy, they

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July 22, 2009

My sweepstakes got picked up on the blogs. Is that bad? No it’s good!

When a sweepstakes generates a million entries it is likely caused by the inclusion in many major online sweepstakes gaming sites. Sites of this variety have increased exponentially with the monetization of page views for online advertising purposes. An initial investigation of a recent sweepstakes turned up the following placements which is probably a small subset of the total number of sites where the sweepstakes appeared. powersweepstaking.com; vacationstakes.com; freesamplesite.com; bigbigforum

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April 30, 2009
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How to Create a Facebook Contest

Running a contest on your Facebook page is a popular and effective strategy. According to a poll conducted by Econsultancy,

Read More

How Do Large Companies Promote Using Social Media?

With millions of people using social media sites, companies have turned towards social media as a virtually unlimited resource for

Read More

Crowdsourcing and User-Generated Content

Marden-Kane helps business owners and marketers develop strategies for marketing though the use of such promotional marketing tools as sweepstakes,

Read More

Facebook and the $104 Billion Question.

Facebook made playing tag cool again. We’re speaking, of course of tagging and being tagged in photos. This social functionality

Read More

What UGC Means to Your Brand

The premise is that branded content is marketing currency. That’s always been true, but today the content is coming as

Read More

Is Social Media Free?

There has been a lot of discussion with clients about the value of integrating Social Media into promotion plans. Some

Read More

My sweepstakes got picked up on the blogs. Is that bad? No it’s good!

When a sweepstakes generates a million entries it is likely caused by the inclusion in many major online sweepstakes gaming

Read More
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