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		<title>Social Media Metrics All Companies Should Measure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Top Community Management Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media gives companies a new opportunity to build relationships, engage and communicate directly with their community. As the new social media chair of the San Francisco American Marketing Association (SFAMA), community management is a big part of my job description. I was looking over our own social media the other day. We have built [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=424&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Increase Your Facebook Subscribers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many business’s top goals is to acquire new more subscribers, likes, or fans,  However, fans do not magically appear from the Facebook mist. People need to be enticed to be a fan. These are some of the more commonly used ways: Add your Fan page to your email signature, invite email subscribers, add compelling videos, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=396&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mashable &amp; Ben Parr: Changing the way we view news!</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/06/12/mashable-ben-parr-changing-the-way-we-view-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mashable is an elite news website that focuses on technology, web culture, social, and digital media. It also covers the latest in news in business, mobile, entertainment, online video, and gadgets. One of the best things about Mashable is that it provides a thorough analysis of trends, reviews new websites, offers amazing social media resources and guides. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=386&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social B2B Marketing</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/04/10/social-b2b-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Golden Ashby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[B2B marketers today interact with companies over a variety of channels, and the new Social Business is becoming an increasingly important component of the conversation. Forrester Research predicts that B2B firms will spend $54 million on social media marketing in 2014, up from just $11 million in 2009. These firms are incorporating “social media marketing” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=336&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Radian6 Social Media Listening Insights</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/04/08/317/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies want to gather insights on who’s talking about their brand and what they’re saying. Radian6 a popular social platforms available that companies should consider when listening. They announced yesterday that they have come up with a new set of tools for their social media listening platform – Radian6 Insights. Insights are now integrated with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=317&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Now Converts Personal To Business Page</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/04/06/302/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about technology is it&#8217;s always changing. You can now change your Facebook personal profile page to a business page. This is great for people who incorrectly setup a personal page as a business page. Setting up and maintaining a profile for anything other than an individual person is a violation of Facebook’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=302&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Social Business</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/03/07/what-is-a-social-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A  Social Business is defined by Wikipedia as a non-loss, non-dividend company designed to address a social objective. This definition explains how profits are solely used to expand the company’s reach and improve the product/service. The old social business is characterized by the impact of the business on its surroundings, instead of the overall profit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=230&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social CRM</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/01/26/165/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Customer Relationship Management (SCRM) is a strategy that monitors, engages, and builds customer trust. You can use consulting firms such as Golden Opportunities GO 2.0 to design a social media strategy to build brand awareness, and visibility to manage your companies interactions. GO 2.0 uses a perfect mix of new media, search engine optimization [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=165&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Optimization Strategies</title>
		<link>http://goldenopps.com/2011/01/07/309/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 03:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I blogged about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and talked about how it was one of the most important tools for building brands online. Now we are going to talk about Social Media Optimization (SMO), which works hand in hand with SEO to build your brand on the traditional and social web. These are two of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenopps.com&amp;blog=6547842&amp;post=309&amp;subd=goldenashby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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