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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace. Case in point Wal-Marting Across America uses a real journalist and real photographer, and sets them up as your average Wal-Mart fans, who travel across America, park their RV at Wal-Mart parking lots and hang and blog.

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10 social sites to start your year off with

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1) A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of B2B and B2C marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones. 9) Want a really good list of people’s blogs to read and or follow? In less than 10 minutes the answer came back with Blastfollow. 5) Tamar Weinberg is a star.

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12 things I thought I knew About Social Media in 2011

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It’s a blog post in and of itself. I think I might have predicted in 2009 that Twitter would be making money by now as well… Le Sigh. Can you say self doubt? 4) We had gotten over being enamored with the quantity of friends, followers, fans and likes. Some have and some have not and we’ll leave it at that. The problem?

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Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

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He frequently speaks, writes and evangelizes on the emergence and convergence of social media into our lives, and his blog is ranked in the Adage Power 150, the top 5 of all social media marketing blogs ranked by Post Rank Analytics. Marc is also a featured writer and member of his favorite “go-to” site, Social Media Today.

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I have a client…

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Created a blog that drives significant traffic and also ranks organically on first page of Google. 2009… So though he’s telling me the gig might be up, and he’s probably right, I’m sitting over here wondering what more can I do? Created Twitter account that results in10% CTR and 2-3% sales on all links.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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No one had heard of blogs. Fast forward to 2009. million blog entries every day. Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. People used mobile phones to talk. The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice.

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10 lessons Twitter should have taught you in 2009

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If you look at this past year, Sidewiki and Google Wave were and are diamonds in the rough for real time communications, they’re just waiting for you to figure them out and… given that those 2 came out in 2009, know that Google is not done, never forget that. Share this Post.

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