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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. Smart retailers (like Target) are recognizing this trend and incentivizing the use of mobile phones within the store with discounts and coupons targeted at mobile users. of time to reach your potential customers. That’s mind-boggling growth in just over 10 years.

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History Repeats – Facebook is the new AOL

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My piece of a panel discussion on trends at SocialSlam in Knoxville, Tennessee a great event put together by my friend Mark W. In 2002, AOL had 25 million subscribers. In 2002, AOL’s market cap was $150 billion, enough to swallow Time-Warner. Facebook Places (foursquare). View more presentations from Jay Baer.

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The New New New Rules of Marketing and PR

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to have been very, very early in seeing the trend. 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. Lo and behold, there were entire.

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Social Pros 20 – Katie Morse, Billboard

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We definitely notice trends with who follows which account. Jill : Yeah, I’ve been a fan since 2002. When we work with Foursquare, we do work with them, but it’s not in the same way or as intensive as companies like them. Jay : Nice. Jay : You’ve got Kelly Clarkson and you’ve got Footloose.

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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. link] Meryl K Evans I'm glad I went in 2002 and 2003 before it got so big.