Unlocking Social Media Ad Spending - Integrating Social Media: Traditional Media for Reach, Interactive Media for Targeting, Social for Engagement

Forecaster eMarketer has raised its outlook for U.S. social networks advertising spending this year by nearly 30 percent. As I discuss in a post at GigaOM Pro, chances are, the next big advancement in social media marketing will be less about the actual technology and more about coordinating and integrating across media formats: traditional media for reach, interactive media for targeting, and social media for engagement. For this to happen, three social media advertising areas need help: scale, distribution and targeting, and format.

via gigaom.com

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Posted via email from Social Persuasion - The Social Media Marketing Agency Blog

Constant Contact Acquires NutshellMail to Move into Social Media Marketing

E-mail marketing giant Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a service that lets businesses track and post updates to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn via e-mail.

via mashable.com

It's a mashed up world where pretty much everything will be social media enabled -- so much so that we'll soon stop calling it social media because most sites and tools online will come socialmediafied by default.

Posted via web from Vancouver Internet Marketing Consultant - Brent Purves