Archive for the Social Category

Top 5 of the Best Facebook and Sweepstakes Applications

03 Feb 2012

Everybody loves a good contest or sweepstakes; we can all agree free stuff is awesome.  Not only do we love running contests and sweeps, but fans and customers love them as well. The best contests and sweepstakes are a fantastic way to grow a social community, excitement for a product, and reward loyal fans of a brand.
Room 214 has run a number of successful sweepstakes and promotions for clients. We have developed custom applications to run contest and sweepstakes for brands and explored a number of different tools that can run them as well. The choice of a developing a custom system versus using a platform depends on a number of factors: budgets, customization, and time frame among others. Considering these factors can help you make the determination if a custom application or a platform is right for your business.
We have reviewed many tools out there, and they all have…

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Why Instagram is Perfect for Brands

16 Jan 2012

Instagram is now the world’s largest mobile social network. When you look at it’s astounding growth numbers it’s hard to deny that brands should think about a presence in the community.

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Get Facebook Parent-Child Features

06 Jan 2012

If you work for a company that has dozens or even hundreds of locations, it’s been a nightmare to figure out how to best use Facebook places to your advantage. Sure you want to try some check-in deals, but you have no idea how to claim/admin/manage all of the individual locations.

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Fans & Followers: What are they really worth?

08 Dec 2011

Remember back in the day, when folks were still trying to figure out what exactly to do with all this “Social Media” mumbo-jumbo? Conference rooms around the globe were full of marketing professionals, khakis freshly pressed, saying things like “OK…we’re on Facebook. We’re on Twitter. Now what?”

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