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This Weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Marketing Mix: Which Channel is More Effective?

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Posted: April 26th, 2010 By: Jason Breed. Agencies and old-school marketers feel comfortable when discussing digital as just another channel. we are all new-age digital marketers. If you measure traditional marketing with reach (ie. Ford transitioned 25% of their marketing budget to social.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

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In 2006, Radian6 was founded by Chris Newton (@ cdnewt ) and Chris Ramsey (@ chrisramsey ) Back then monitoring and listening were a novel concept, but they knew that social wasn’t a fluke. Consider this blurb from 10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010. Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace.

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