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How Thanksgiving Lost Its Meaning

Ari Herzog

Black Friday, begun in 1924, empowers retailers to offer shopping deals. Cyber Monday, begun in 2005, is the internet’s version of Black Friday. Even if you do understand the meaning of Thanksgiving, even if you are truly thankful for what you have, how many of you spend money over the ensuing days?

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Social Networking Stats: Reddit Earns 56 Billion Pageviews in 2013, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Founded in 2005, Reddit has played an interesting role in internet culture, but has yet to achieve profitability. was by far the top country in terms of unique visitors, with 48.5 Next in line was Canada (7.4 million), followed by the United Kingdom (6.1 Social Media Statistics Reddit social networking statistics'

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Comments Comments Related Stories How Social Media Changes Retail Storefronts Wondering If Mobile Technology Kills Creativity Tips and Tricks for Productive Telecommuting. This is his story. 2007: Facebook.

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How a Leader in Tiny Houses Saves Time Every Day in Creating Social Media Content and Sharing It

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In business since 2005, Legacy Housing also continues to build high-quality homes at a substantial value to its network of independent retailers, company-owned stores, and their customers. And with that growth comes greater marketing efforts and social media campaigns.

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Is The Era of Loyalty To Consumer Brands Over?

Bill Hartzer

Quinn, a former senior executive with the Bullocks Wilshire department store chain understands the inner workings of the fashion retail industry as well as she does consumer trends, and her conclusion based on what she’s seeing in the marketplace aren’t encouraging for some of America’s oldest brands.

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How to Fix a “Broken Brand” with Social

Convince & Convert

And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. For today’s Holy Social, we want to draw attention to an amusing parody account of retailer Burlington Coat Factory. million viewers this week, making it the most-watched Emmy show since Ellen Degeneres hosted back in 2005.

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The 3 Keys to Social Influence

Convince & Convert

Since then, I’ve owned several companies in the online marketing world, including an award-winning agency that I sold in 2005. I love social because it’s the perfect combination of online marketing and retail politics.