Last week I had the opportunity to speak at our annual Social Ad Summit about best practices for Facebook marketing. During the presentation I discussed a number of strategies that can be implemented immediately. You can watch the videos of the presentation below.
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Want to learn how to leverage the best social media marketing techniques to boost your online marketing performance. At this week’s Social Ad Summit, we will be discussing the latest techniques being implemented by the leading agencies and brands.
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I’m pleased to announce the third annual Social Ad Summit being held on October 1st in New York City. The primary focus of the conference is the latest strategies being used in social media marketing and advertising. In contrast to previous version of the conference which had a developer focus, we are going to focus entirely on the marketing and advertising space. What are some of the best campaigns being run and what are the best practices for developing the leading campaigns?
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We’ve been making quick changes to the Social Ad Summit agenda over the past 36 hours but I’m happy to announce a number of new speakers including Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, who will provide the closing keynote. Since we’ve been shifting things around at the last minute, I’m providing one more discount code for today. If you are interested in attending the event, you can use the discount code “jimmywales” to get 40 percent off via the registration form.
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We’ve finalized our agenda for the upcoming Social Ad Summit in New York City being held on October 5th. For today only we are providing all interested attendees with a discount of 50 percent off. The event is bringing together marketers, publishers, ad networks, and industry executives. As this space is constantly evolving, we think it’s important to bring together the current leaders and other participants to discuss the trends and the future of marketing on the social web.
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The second annual Social Ad Summit is coming up in three weeks in New York City and we’ve finally lined up our speakers and have finished most of the preparations. If you haven’t purchased your ticket yet, it’s not too late! Are you still on the fence about going? Below are seven reasons you should attend. Also make sure to enter your email in the form at the end of this article for a chance to win a free ticket. We’ll be giving 5 away over the next few weeks at random to members of the Social Ad Summit list.
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As the deadline for this year’s Social Times 25 came to a close last week, I received a lot of submissions. Many companies have also asked for an extra few days. Given that we’ve been busy rolling out other projects, I’ve decided to extend the deadline by one week (this Thursday, August 27th). Also, we’ve decided to allow nominations from those individuals who don’t work at any marketing firms but have seen social media marketing programs that illustrate excellence.

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With the surge in new branded digital media campaigns and programs we’ve decided to add a new component to this year’s Social Ad Summit being held in New York City and we’re calling it the “Social Times 25″. The Social Times 25 will showcase campaigns/programs that creatively and effectively leverage social technologies and digital media to increase engagement or achieve other marketing objectives. Over the past few weeks we’ve highlighted some of the campaigns and programs in this space but we don’t have time to acknowledge all of them.
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A few weeks ago we announced the first speakers for this year’s Social Ad Summit. Today I wanted to announced a second batch of speakers and also state that we’ve decided to open up registration. The primary reason for opening registration is that managing the invites while blogging and planning the conference was getting a bit overwhelming. We’ve actually had a large volume of invite requests (close to 1,000) but filtering through them was getting to be a task.
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Just over two weeks ago we announced the 2009 Social Ad Summit and today I’m happy to present the first 8 speakers for the event. The conference is being held at Tribeca Rooftop in New York City on October 5, 2009. So far we’ve had a great response and expect this event to sell out based on the number of inquiries we’ve received so far. If you haven’t received the registration information for the event yet, head over to the Social Ad Summit website and enter your information on the homepage.
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