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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? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? 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.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. Below, the pie graph: Quite honestly, I don’t feel that I’ve lost out by not taking MySpace more seriously.

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

Facebook is not like the tech companies that crashed in the 90s, and anyone who stops for two seconds to think about that knows it. It can understand the operations of these other companies enough not to mismanage them (heck, half of them already have some attachment to/compatibility with Facebook anyway). May 12, 2004: 2 for 1.

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The big challenge for social media attribution

The Way of the Web

Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm. It was the same year Facebook launched for Harvard students, the year after the arrival of Myspace, and two years before Twitter arrived. And I have a particular example to illustrate it. Time – an enemy of attribution?

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TruthForce! | How Wiki Software is Changing Communication

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The office has done this by enlisting the public in its review of progress reports from more than 2,000 companies--an effort to make sure each is complying with established social and environmental guidelines. But most corporate wikis are closed to the public, limiting access to employees inside the company firewall. Karangalan.

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Technology for Small Business

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Friese found LinkedIn helped her get in the doors of companies she wanted to participate in TalentEgg. ?I Orkut: A social network launched by Google in 2004. MySpace: One of the earliest social networking sites, MySpace was launched in 2003 and acquired in 2005 by News Corp. I sound young, I am young, and I didn?t