1. Social Media In Sports Review: January 2013

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    Teams, such as the Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Lightning, and more are starting to round-up their social media efforts and display them in visually appealing, informative manners that suit the social fans looking to intake loads of information very quickly. The Seahawks have done a terrific job of visually linking their fans to their team through the use of Twitter and Instagram tags. Crowd sourcing contests have been a key for marketers for the past several years and technology is making it easier than ever to source this data. Teams like the Lightning have taken a similar approach, but visually displayed the data a bit differently. They have included the sourced data but have made it a point to share the hashtags they wish the fans to use. They have also leveraged this space to inform the fans of any teammates on Twitter, including their prospects and “personalities." Currently, many of these hub spaces are clean and free of sponsorship but how long will this last? Once hubs like these start to pick up viewership traction, I expect these to be prime real-estate. Until then, teams will have to “monitor the monitoring” of their team and wait for the day that more people are visiting their site, and not Twitter or Instagram, to find their team’s social media activity....
  2. Social Media How-To: Competitive Analysis

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    Competitive analysis is one of the most difficult components of marketing due to the private nature of corporate data. How do you understand what is or isn’t working for your competitors before you try something similar yourself? Without private access to their reporting, you probably don’t. Many times, even creating simple industry benchmarks are nearly impossible because of inconsistent KPI definitions and inaccurate surveying. Google Analytics used to provide some great, industry-specific benchmarking reports, but the program was abandoned, leaving marketers with few reliable numbers to build strategies from.

    In our first in a series of social media how-tos, we share a couple of social media measurement tools that will simplify your competitive analysis and provide insights that can be used to improve your own social media marketing efforts....
  3. Social Media In Sports Review: 2012

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    With 2012 behind I us, we here at OSMGuy.com wanted to personally thank all of our fans for sticking with us throughout the year. Throughout the year you have seen quite a few Monthly Social Media reviews. Again, thanks for all the great comments and feedback we have received regarding these posts. We work diligently to bring you great, fresh content in a not-so-mundane type of format that is both informative and entertaining. As 2013 begins we aim to bring you this and MORE! We are looking to bring you not only reviews of social media ideas in the market place, but more OSMGuy.com original content in the form of infographics, interactive graphs, interviews, and more. Our goal is to give you as much insight into the intersection of social media and sports as we physically can. Please, join us on this journey, but not as a passenger, more like a symbolic navigator. We are always welcoming to feedback and advice and our ears are always open to new ideas.

    With that said, I want to bring you a little “year in review” for some great social media ideas you may have missed. Some of these I have covered in the past, others are new to OSMGuy.com. Here are 10 of my favorite social media ideas from this past year (give or take) in no particular order. Enjoy!

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