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		<title>How Firms Are Utilizing Social Media To Save Capital And Reach Out To A Wider Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Firms can use social media to conduct a conference with potential clients and also save on travel expenses. They can hire new employees by conducting interviews and demonstrate their product to potential clients by using video conferencing. For a new firm which is looking to enter into a competing market, improved technology helps them to minimize expenses and increase profit and productivity. Along with social media, video conferencing can be used as an effective business tool to get in touch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/how-firms-are-utilizing-social-media-to-save-capital-and-reach-out-to-a-wider-market/</link>
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		<title>Social Media In 2012: Three Major Predictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The field of social media is constantly changing, and as such it is quite difficult to make any predictions about it, and expect it to hold true for a long time to come. Still, by observing prevailing trends on social media in the last quarter of 2011, we have made three predictions, which we believe could hold true for at least the first half of 2012. Here they are:
Mobile users will outshine PC users in terms of social media usage
Even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/social-media-in-2012-three-major-predictions/</link>
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		<title>Clever Use of Internet Memes Can Give Your Business Promotions A Humorous Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that just a few days ago, a man in Malaysia has used Internet memes like “Victory Baby”, “Socially Awkward Penguin”, and “Y U No Put Ring On It” to propose to his long term girlfriend? Indeed, it is just another use for these delightful little combinations of pictures and texts that have been gaining popularity at exponential rates ever since those were first made up, not too long ago.
Can you think of some ways, in which you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/clever-use-of-internet-memes-can-give-your-business-promotions-a-humorous-touch/</link>
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		<title>How You Can Use Social Networking Sites To Boost Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each day holds a new record for each of the networking sites, who are constantly competing with each other to increase their popularity. Inclusion into a circle of friends having similar aims in life can be mutually beneficial. You will find ones who will have similar interests as yours, with whom you can soon start a conversation. Interacting with a new person in the real world is not very easy for a few of us, but the virtual world of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/how-you-can-use-social-networking-sites-to-boost-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Social Media: ROI vs. Correlation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you regularly run social media campaigns for various clients? Then maintaining proper ROI for all those clients must be a major headache for you. Well, there certainly is a fine balance that you have to maintain in every single social media marketing campaign that you may run, between correlation and ROI.
So, what is this correlation, you ask? Well, simply put, it is the relationship between business success achieved by the company, and the ties of social media to that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/social-media-roi-vs-correlation/</link>
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		<title>You Cannot Restart Your Social Media Campaign… But You Can Fix Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have your inexperienced employees been making some major mistakes while interacting with others on the social media accounts used for promoting your business? Have you been considering drastic measures like closing down the accounts and creating new ones for carrying on social media marketing for your company? Well, guess what – that route is closed! Even if you manage to build another account, the people already on the last account will think twice, or even thrice, before accepting your requests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/you-cannot-restart-your-social-media-campaign%e2%80%a6-but-you-can-fix-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Marriage Between SEO And Social Media Can Do Wonders For Your Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been conducting both search engine optimization and social media marketing for your business website for quite some time? Well, hopefully, you have ensured that your actions for both those marketing processes complement one another. When combined, SEO and SMM can form an immensely powerful combination, while both are about half as effective when carried out separately.
However, before you can combine SEO with SMM, you need to locate the common tools that benefit both the techniques. You may already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/marriage-between-seo-and-social-media-can-do-wonders-for-your-business/</link>
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		<title>Engage Your Visitors To Maximize Conversion Rate Through Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies that have recently launched their social media marketing campaigns often find that they are unable to convert visitors to their social media channels. Are you the owner of one such company? Are you noticing  hundreds of “likes” on your company&#8217;s Facebook page and thousands of followers on Twitter channel, but very few (if any) conversions? Well, then you might not be “engaging” your followers in the proper manner. Yes, that&#8217;s right! Having thousands of followers without interacting properly with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/engage-your-visitors-to-maximize-conversion-rate-through-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Be Careful About When You Post Social Media Updates For Your Retail Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you been promoting your retail business through social media networks for quite some time now, but failed to make much of a difference in the revenue counters? Well, are you sure that your updates are being checked by maximum number of users? Yes, you would be surprised to know many companies carrying out promotional campaigns on social media channels do not get too many hits on their updates, even if those give news of epic discounts and bundled offers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/be-careful-about-when-you-post-social-media-updates-for-your-retail-business/</link>
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		<title>How Hospitals Can Use Social Media To Streamline Healthcare Procedures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that hospitals have been using social media networks to streamline healthcare processes for quite a few years now? Even in 2009, more than 100 hospitals across the globe had presence on various social media networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Now, the number has increased at least 5-6 times!
That should not come as a surprise to anyone, though. Hospitals are one of the busiest types of organizations out there, and could certainly benefit from the widespread reach that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.pisocialmedia.com/how-hospitals-can-use-social-media-to-streamline-healthcare-procedures/</link>
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