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7 Lessons On How Startups Use Social Media To Succeed

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If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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GumGum Ranks NBA Teams On Social Media

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Which NBA team is winning, on social media? Los Angeles-based GumGum , the image recognition, computer vision, and advertising technology developer, has rolled out a new service called GumGum Sports Scoreboard , a new tool which helps benchmark and analyze media value generated from NBA team-owned social media accounts.

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How The Promise Of Social Media Advertising Is Measuring Up For Adly

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We caught up with CEO Walter Delph to hear how the promise of social media advertising has measured up to reality, and what that means for brands and marketers today trying to leverage the new reality of social conversations. We''re the leading social advertising platform that leverages celebrity relationships.

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BAT Launches Social Media Efforts With Celebrities

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Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , the new startup of Ryan and Chad Steelberg, said this morning that it has launched social media campaigns for three companies. Brand Affinity Technology runs a platform which matches celebrity endorsements with marketers.

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7 Keys To Optimizing Your Investment In Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay If you are a business owner today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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GumGum Analyzes Sports Teams Sponsorships, Advertising

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Santa Monica-based GumGum has launched a new effort to apply its technology to analyze sports sponsorships and advertising. The company said it is partnering with Catalyst Sports and Media, founded by Happy Walters and Josh Swartz, on the effort to bring the product to the sports market.

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. Yet these seem to be the least effective attributes of banner advertising. The global advertising market is estimated at around $475 billion / year with only 12% of this online and measurable. Holy Shiitake !