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7 Mobile Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

Convince & Convert

Mobile marketing is the future. Any marketer, or marketing firm worth their weight in invoices knows that the key to future success is adapting to and optimizing for the mobile market. This same stat was less than 10% in 2002. As of 2012, 116 million Americans owned smartphones. This figure is up from 93.1

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The Start-Up Of You

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The January 2012 cover story of Fast Company magazine was all about Generation Flux. Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn - the very popular online social network for business professionals - in December 2002. With close to 140 million members in over 20 countries, LinkedIn's IPO in May of last year made Hoffman a billionaire.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not.

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The When, Where, How and Why of B2B Social Selling

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Using social media to network has been a concept around since Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn in 2002. Back in 2012, Dan was a senior sales leader at LinkedIn and responsible for training LinkedIn’s very own global sales team. On LinkedIn alone, there are over 706 million people. Don’t call it social selling.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

Convince & Convert

This week, sitting in for my pal Eric Boggs is my other pal, Jill Carlson , the marketing manager for our friends at Argyle Social. Jay : Terrific guest on the show today, Katie Morse , who’s the social marketing manager for Billboard is going to join us in a little bit. Next week we’ll be able to drink here on Social Pros.

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Social Media "Pioneers" Tell Why

Diva Marketing Blog

Perhaps that’s true to an extent as the Pew 2012 Demographic report i ndicates. And even my early experiments in marketing via the social web channels that existed at the time (pre-Facebook, pre-Twiiter, etc.) It connected me to dozens of people in the marketing world I was just then venturing to enter. And, he was right.

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278: Evolve Don’t Revolve Your Blogging

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He’s brilliant on creating products via blog marketing and just really helping you to shape your business. . ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. It was a mind-blowing question to be asked because everything has changed in my blogging since 2002 except for the fact that a blog is pretty much the same thing.

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