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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. Mobile users are shoppers, and we’ve got data to prove it. This should surprise no one.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

It started in 2002. I arrived here in 2002, as the debris from the dot com crash was still being cleared away. Foursquare? Comments Comments Related Stories How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts Wondering If Mobile Technology Kills Creativity Tips and Tricks for Productive Telecommuting. The answer is @BookMerah.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Friendster (2002) Launched in 2002, Friendster was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. But Twitter’s significance was really defined by the hashtag , a symbol that’s helped political organizers and average citizens mobilize, promote, and create awareness.

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History Repeats – Facebook is the new AOL

Convince & Convert

In 2002, AOL had 25 million subscribers. In 2002, AOL’s market cap was $150 billion, enough to swallow Time-Warner. Facebook Places (foursquare). Facebook Mobile. In 1992, the market capitalization of newly public AOL was $70 million. History Repeats. Facebook is the New AOL. Facebook Events (evite).

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The New New New Rules of Marketing and PR

Convince & Convert

beginning of 2002. Then the second edition comes out, and all of a sudden things like foursquare and other GPS components that are used for mobile marketing, iPhone apps and stuff, all of a sudden they’re really important for marketing. It’s not going to work over here.&# So they sent me along. That was the.

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