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Review of the Online Group Buying Industry

Idaconcpts

Group buying is a trend that had incredibly growth throughout 2010. Group buying, which refers to social buying or collective buying as well, is the buying an offer which has been significantly reduced, due to the fact that it is only valid if enough buyers are found. Why would you bother with the little guys? Enter: Google Offers.

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Six Steps to a Remarkably Powerful, Personal Network - Liz Strauss at Successful Blog - Thinking, writing, business ideas. You're only a stranger once.

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This relational group will be a much smaller subset of the network of folks that you know. A network built from relationships that are carefully tended is likely to become a remarkable group of lifelong friends and colleagues. Technorati (24). December 2006. November 2006. October 2006. September 2006.

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11 Myths of Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

On the consumer side, the largest cohort of Facebook’s user base is the 35-54 age group, and the fastest growing is the 55+ cohort. Certainly the tools are new: Twitter has only been around since 2007, Facebook since 2006, and even blogging has been popular for less than a decade. Share this on Technorati. Not really.

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HotPads.com Launches Map-Based Vacation Rental Search Engine

Bill Hartzer

Vacation Rentals often offer a cheaper alternative to hotels for families and group vacationers. This is on top of another $160 MM they raised in 2006. Share this on Technorati. There is nothing more important to vacation homes than location. In this sour economy, people are looking for alternatives when it comes to vacationing.

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Australia: Senior Citizens on Facebook over 55’s

Laurel Papworth

NOTE from Twitter: Alex Avery pointed out that Hitwise have some generic social network figures for seniors: The 25-34, 35-44 and 45-54 age groups all represent a similar percentage of the Social Networking and Forums share of visits and each are over represented against the online population. Compare this to 2006.

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Social Media Revenue: Huffington Post TechCrunch Valuations

Laurel Papworth

Business: An online newspaper/news aggregator and group blog. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal wrote that TechCrunch has revenue of $120,000 a month. Technorati Tags: 24/7 Wall St , huffington post , Monetization , Money , revenue , Silicon Alley Insider , techcrunch. Estimated Value: $150 million. Location: New York, NY.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this.