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    How MarketingProfs Manages Its Brand on Twitter (an Ann Handley Interview)

    by Michael Stelzner / January 27, 2010

    social media expert interviewIn this video I interview Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer for the 358,000 member organization MarketingProfs.

    Ann talks about how she manages being the public face on Twitter for her organization. She also shares how her own Twitter strategy has evolved over the last 2 years.

    In this video Ann also discusses the challenges of having employees represent your brands on social media and how to approach social media policies.

    This video contains many great tips for businesses using social media. Here are some of them to listen for:

    • How Ann mixes business and personal tweets on Twitter
    • Why businesses struggle to humanize their brand 
    • Why it's important to identify your goals for social media and to put bumpers in place
    • How to set social media policies that work
    • Why employees represent their business in a wider environment today and how this impacts the hiring process
    • How social media beginners should start by wading in and listening before they speak

    Be sure to check out the Marketing Profs blog and website where you can find an overwhelming amount of marketing resources, including a Social Media ROI Case Study collection.

    What takeaways do you have after listening to Ann? What's your experience of Twitter? How does your social media policy work for your company? Please share you comments below.

    Tags: Social Media Strategy

    About the authorMichael Stelzner

    Michael Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner and the Social Media Marketing World conference. He's host of the Social Media Marketing Podcast and he's founder of the Social Media Marketing Society. He also authored the books Launch and Writing White Papers.
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