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Avoiding Copyrighted Music for your Camp Videos

Posted on July 7, 2014
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by Blake Sunshine
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You may have found the perfect summer jam for your camp on the radio, but is it the right song for your YouTube and Facebook videos? Both sites are hyper-vigilant when it comes to copyright infringement and all public and private videos shared with your camp community are subject to strict enforcement. With advanced audio-scanning technology, YouTube and music companies can easily identify any copyrighted songs in your videos and have them removed. Even if you purchase the song and give credit...

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Twitter Introduces Remarketing

Posted on June 26, 2014
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by Nick Middleton
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Interested in creating #winning ad campaigns on Twitter? The company has developed a new website tag that creates campaign audiences by identifying Twitter users that have recently visited your camp's website. You can retrieve your tag at ads.twitter.com in the conversion tracking tab. Add it to the page of your website that get the most visitors, like your homepage. If you are already using a Twitter website tag to track conversions, you can simply change the settings to have it monitor...

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Facebook Video Ad Updates

Posted on June 19, 2014
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by Nick Middleton
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If your camp has some great video content that you would love to share, this week’s news out of Facebook should be particularly exciting! You can now select “video views” as an objective when creating Facebook ad campaigns. This new objective automatically optimizes your ad performance by displaying your video ads to the users in your target audience who are most likely to watch videos on the site. Facebook is also improving the efficiency of the video ads themselves by adding two...

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We Heart It: A New Social Media Platform For Teens

Posted on June 3, 2014
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by Nick Middleton
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With the alarming growth of social media platforms, there seems to be a new social media app and network popping up on a weekly basis.  Recently, We Heart It, a social media platform similar to Pinterest, sparked our interest.  With nearly 30 million active users ( 80% being under 25 ) We Heart It is quickly becoming one of the go-to social media networks to reach teens, behind Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. What is We Heart It? Similar to Pinterest and Instagram, We Heart It is...

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Three types of advertising

Posted on May 29, 2014
in Camp Inspiration
by Blake Sunshine
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I wanted to share with you all a great blog post from Seth Godin on advertising. What kind of advertising is your camp running? What do you want to be running? From Seth's Blog: "Direct response ads pay for themselves (at least they do when they work). Socially acceptable paid-for interruption leads to response, and the response (a sale, generally) generates revenue and you can run the ad again. Google's business is driven by direct response advertising. Trust ads are generally unmeasurable. "I've heard of...

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AdWords Certification

Posted on May 13, 2014
in Social Strategies
by Blake Sunshine
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Did you know that Google has an AdWords certification program? This means that any advertiser can take two Google AdWords exams that help qualify them in terms of running your AdWords account. I highly recommend asking whoever runs Google Adwords for your summer camp if they are AdWords certified. The team at Social Summer camp is Adwords certified and we feel confident in helping you run successful, ROI positive campaigns!   ...

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Social Media for Your Industry

Posted on April 22, 2014
in Camp Inspiration, Social Strategies
by Nick Middleton
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I know about 99.9% of my readers are from the Summer Camp industry, but I love figuring out how social media can be used for all industries! I was approached by the father of one of my amazing clients to write a blog post for his Photography blog. If you are looking for social media tips for photography (or any industry), this blog is definitely the place to go. Here is an excerpt from the post: Recently articles have been swirling around...

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Most-Used Social Networks on Mobile in the U.S.

Posted on April 10, 2014
in Social Tools
by Nick Middleton
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I'm always encouraging my camps to figure out a strategy for mobile. I found this great chart in Mashable I wanted to share with you all that discusses % of time spend on mobile for certain social networks. It's not surprise that Instagram is almost at 100% (given that they barely have a desktop all), but I love to see how high Pinterest, Twitter and Facebook are too. The chart below from Statista can be found here.   If you haven't figured out...

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Facebook Ad Delivery

Posted on April 8, 2014
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by Nick Middleton
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I wanted to take a few minutes to share this article from Facebook's FAQ on ad delivery. "Facebook's ad system uses an algorithm that chooses the best ad to display based on a variety of factors, including the historical performance of each ad and their bids. The bid necessary to win our ad auction will fluctuate as our system learns more about your ad based on its actual performance, and as the pool of competing ads changes." Optimize your Page "Make your Page engaging...

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Pulling Instagram Stats

Posted on April 3, 2014
in Social Tools
by Nick Middleton
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I get asked a lot about pulling Instagram stats for your camp. Right now there are not a lot of tools that allow you to pull Instagram stats, but I do recommend trying Iconosquare. Iconosquare provides you will the following metrics: - Followers - Likes - Comments - Like per piece of media - Lost followers - Top performing content - Tag usage - Post history If you know of any other Instagram metrics sites, please comment below. Until then, I'll be getting my metrics from Iconosquare....

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