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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. With hype and buzz, MySpace started to grow. Like this post?

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15 Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Initiative

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LinkedIn has enjoyed explosive growth since its debut in 2003. Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. Remember, most people will not sit there and read an entire book on your page, so keep it short, sweet, and to the point. Contribute.

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Technology for Small Business

Buzz Marketing for Technology

MySpace: One of the earliest social networking sites, MySpace was launched in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by News Corp. Plaxo: Plaxo is first and foremost an online address book. In 2007, Plaxo launched Plaxo Pulse, which adds other social networking features to the address book. Basketball. Columnists. Columnists.

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With 4 Days Before Blogger Social, I Bring You the 4×4 Meme

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Prior to Austin (where I had to go outside the city in order to get Kosher food for SXSW), the last time I ate Indian food was in 2003. Publishing a book (or at least an e-book, we’ll see) Four Music Artists I’m Listening To Now 1. The birth of my daughter (May 6th due date) 2. Hiring some help 3. John Prine 2.

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Diva Marketing Talks Online Publications With Deanna Sutton, Angela Benton & Heidi Richards Mooney

Diva Marketing Blog

Follow Dede on Twitter @clutchmagazine Facebook MySpace Angela Benton is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb 2.0. Follow Angela @abenton Facebook Heidi Richards Mooney is a serial entrepreneur, author of several books and student of social media. BlackWeb20.com Her focus for the past three years has been social networking.

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. And I’ve written two books on it. Ignite was founded in 2007, Carusele was founded in 2015, and that’s just been such a long time.