Twitter has recently started selling ads in the form of Promoted Tweets & Promoted Trends (both still in beta). While there are only a handful of advertisers (for example, Starbucks and Disney) currently using these ads, marketers are pondering the value of them. Twitter obviously has value as a tool to have conversations with a broad audience. Is it valuable as an advertising channel?
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Improve Your Tweets Using HootSuite’s Twitter Stats
An important part of any strategy is measurement — so you know what’s working and what’s not and where to improve. Using Twitter to have conversations and provide useful information to your intended audience can be a valuable part of your online strategy. But how do you know what your audience likes or dislikes? Taking a look at your Twitter stats using HootSuite can give you some good insight to improve your tweets.
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Measurable Effects of Old Spice Viral Campaign
Old Spice has turned their “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” ad campaign into a viral sensation by having the “Old Spice guy” respond to people’s comments and tweets via videos which were posted on YouTube (click on the response videos on the right) — my favorite is below. The move has gotten quite a response, but only time and sales will tell whether it was successful for the brand’s bottom line. Sales can a bit of time to react, but there are some measurable effects that can give insight into how the ads are doing now.
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