Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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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Data Social Media Radian6 ROI 197

Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 6, 2010

2010 is going to be an interesting year for all of us. Not only does his blog, Convince and Convert bring value to those who read it, but he also stumbles across things that he shares with his readers that make him better and us as well. 9) Want a really good list of people’s blogs to read and or follow?

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 27, 2010

What are you looking for when you read the latest link bait blog title? Push the envelope in 2010, you have 11 months to get it done! Tags: Myspace Social Networking blogging change agents digital marketing social media beth harte jason falls marc meyer second life Social Networks todd defren. Because people keep buying them.

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Social Media MySpace Social Networking Sites 143

Direct Marketing Observations

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It’s a blog post in and of itself. Of course I thought 2010 was going to be the year as well. 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. 5) Corporations were ready to be transparent in 2011.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 21, 2010

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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Twitter Web 2.0 Small Business Startup 148

Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 3, 2010

Posted: May 3rd, 2010 By: Jason Breed. So many strategies stop at the tools so you end up with a blog or a Facebook page and the strategist goes home. The title of this post pretty much sums it up. So often we get caught up in frameworks and checklists and strategies and everyone is running around looking busy. How could this be?

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

Create a blog on WordPress. Comment on any blog anywhere. Your digital footprint has never been more impactful than it is now, here in 2010. We are, and even more importantly they are, in the digital age. They can: Text with their phone. Online Chat via AIM. Create video on YouTube. Comment on YouTube. Create a song.

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Social Media Social Networking Education Guidelines 202