Ben Cotton

Marketing Manager with a passion for inbound at HubSpot, Founder of Growth Hack Talks, Blogger at Ben-Cotton.com and Chief Quaffer at CraftySwine.org .

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, August 28th, 2010
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The Ultimate Social Media Dashboard

This weeks launch of Google Real Time has rightly generated a lot of conversation in the Tech community. The new tool features: Geographic refinements to find updates and news near you, or in a region you specify. Conversation More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, August 21st, 2010
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What Does Facebook Places Mean For You?

Well, If you’re not based in the US, the answer is very little at the moment. However, Facebook Places, the social network’s new location-based feature is likely to be rolled out more widely in the not too distant More...

By Ben Cotton On Monday, August 16th, 2010
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Social Media This Week [ROUND-UP]

Overview Apologies, for the delay in putting together this round up…I was planning to type it up on the train journey to Leeds, but let I was let down by the on-board wireless. However, I’m now back online More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, August 8th, 2010
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Another Busy Week for Social Media [ROUND-UP]

Overview It’s been an interesting week in the world of social media and whilst I could bore you with another Google Wave obituary, I’ll instead point you in the direction of Jeff Jarvis, who wrote a fascinating More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, August 7th, 2010
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10 Free Tools to Identify Online Influencers

In my day to day role I am frequently involved in the identification of online influencers who we feel may be suitable to engage with on behalf of a client. Subsequently, I’ve been encouraged to write a series More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, August 1st, 2010
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The Week That Was in Social Media [ROUND-UP]

Overview I, like many others read a fascinating article on Read Write Web looking at the top sources of web referral traffic. This was a very insightful piece looking at what broadly occurs across the web and the More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, July 25th, 2010
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This Week in Social Media [ROUND-UP]

Overview This week I read a great blog by Justin Kistner who looked at Radian6 and how it is going to start integrating Webtrends and salesforce data into its offering. For those who are unfamiliar with Radian6, More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, July 24th, 2010
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How to Protect Your Clients Against Cyber Squatting

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been busy protecting clients from various forms of cyber squatting. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, cyber squatting is when someone uses the name of a brand online, More...

By Ben Cotton On Sunday, July 18th, 2010
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Social Media weekly Round Up [ROUND-UP]

As part of my commitment to becoming a curator, as well as a creator of social media content, at the end of each week I will put together a round up of social media news articles and blog posts that have caught More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, July 17th, 2010
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Facebook Fan Page Launched

As someone who helps clients manage their Facebook Fan Page and is constantly telling them how important it is to set their content free and make it ‘social’, I thought it was time for me to take some of my More...

By Ben Cotton On Saturday, July 10th, 2010
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Councillor’s Blog Launched

Over the past six weeks I’ve been working with Councillor James Bond, the newly elected, Independent Councillor for the Headstone North Ward to launch his blog – Bond with the People. Headstone North or More...

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