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7 Mobile Marketing Stats That Will Blow Your Mind

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This same stat was less than 10% in 2002. Many restaurants are doing the same thing by offering a free drink, appetizer or a coupon code to those that check in using Foursquare, Yelp or Facebook. You can connect with Chris via Linkedin , Twitter - @ChrisWarden_SE , or Google+. of time to reach your potential customers.

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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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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

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Eye Witness: On October 11, 2002 there was a bombing at a shopping mall in Myyrmanni, Finland in which 7 were killed including children and 166 injured. You can read the newspaper reports about it OR you can read Juha Haataja : I and my youngest daughter were lucky yesterday, Friday, October 11th, 2002.

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We’re starting to see a lot more interest being paid to Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, things of that nature. But it doesn’t matter whether it’s on Facebook or LinkedIn or YouTube. Jill : Yeah, I’ve been a fan since 2002. What he said was, we had to stop confusing social media with social media advertising.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. I’ll write about that soon. Edwards University for their MBA program).