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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

Ignite was founded in 2007, Carusele was founded in 2015, and that’s just been such a long time. So we were three years before those even started, and it was yet another year before Snapchat, Twitch as Twitch, and Google Plus launched in 2011. Google Wave came out, I think that was 2011. Do less but do better.

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The Ironic Beauty Of Google Indexing Tweets And Why Content Marketers Should Pay Attention

SocMed Sean

Since February, 2015, Google has been adding tweets into their search index and then including them in the search results. There’s a history of them doing this, but Google stopped including tweets in their index around 2011. Get the scoop and come back. I’ll wait.

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The Silent Rise of LinkedIn to 500M Members: What Marketers Need to Know for 2018 [SSM069]

Buffer Social

If you were to ask me to describe LinkedIn in 2015, I might have said something along the lines of, “a great professional network” or “the perfect place to find a job.” 2011 (140M members): LinkedIn goes public. 2015 (330M members): $1.5B The silent rise of LinkedIn: What marketers need to know.

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How We Increased the Readership of Buffer’s Blog to Over 1.5 Million Visits

Buffer Social

We started the Buffer Social blog in January 2011 and since then it has been a key component in the success of the company. We first hit one million sessions in a calendar month during March 2015 —a full 4 years after launching— and after months of floating around 1.1 million visits every month. sessions in May 2017.

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79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” Tumblr grew 900% in 2011 and now has 90 million users. rose from 34 million in 2011 to 55 million this year and is expected to reach 108 million by 2015.

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79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” Tumblr grew 900% in 2011 and now has 90 million users. rose from 34 million in 2011 to 55 million this year and is expected to reach 108 million by 2015.

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6,595 Words on a Traffic Generation Tactic You’re Not Using (But Should Be)

Viper Chill

In 2011 she launched a simple flowchart website entitled, Should I Work for Free , which you can see below. In 2011 Natasa Lekic left her job as an editor of a book publisher in New York to seek out a new career. By the middle of 2015 it had passed the $55,000 per month mark and is continuing to grow. Just ask Jessica Hische.