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Video: How First Republic Bank makes business better by listening to their customers

Like in any relationship, to get your customers to love you and want to talk about you, you have to listen to them first. But it’s more complicated than just tracking what people say about your company. According to Kathleen Fetters, First Republic Bank’s Social Media Intelligence Executive, getting the most out of listening means…

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Video: How TD Ameritrade gives their employees ownership in social media

It’s hard for employees to get excited about spreading the word about your company if the only way they can do it is through corporate red tape. For TD Ameritrade’s social team, to make social media a part of everyone’s responsibility they had to enable and empower other teams, not command and control how they…

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Lessons from Umpqua Bank on being a remarkable neighbor

[Welcome back to our Word of Mouth Marketing Lessons newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using this handy form.] From handing out chocolate with every deposit to the 40 hours of community service every employee serves each year, Umpqua Bank is known for…

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How NCR Corporation launched a blog for their BtoB financial customers — live from BlogWell

Come to our upcoming BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media conference in San Francisco to hear Farmers Insurance, Rogers Communications, Target, Yahoo!, NVIDIA, Hitachi Data Systems, Verizon, and Autodesk share 8 great case studies on corporate social media. This event is all about how big brands use social media. No agencies, no startups —…

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3-Minute WOM Lesson: How regulated brands can create word of mouth

[Welcome back to the You Can Be a Word of Mouth Marketing Supergenius! newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using the handy form on the right.] No matter what industry you’re in or how much regulation you may be facing, you can earn the…

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How CME Group is connecting with their fans on Twitter and LinkedIn — live from BlogWell

Come to BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media on November 9 to hear SAP, SunGard, American Express, Scholastic, BlackRock, Johnson & Johnson, The Hershey Company, and Pfizer share case studies in corporate social media. You’ll learn how to get started, get past roadblocks, and make your social media program phenomenal — in one afternoon,…

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SmartyPig uses word of mouth to encourage savings

SmartyPig offers a free online financial savings service that allows users to create profiles, establish savings goals and have their friends and family contribute. Founders Mike Ferrari and Jon Gaskell describe the concept: We thought, what if we could give our customers the opportunity to make their accounts public (or not), so that their mom,…

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