Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 10, 2011

However, if companies were all about their employees, why would 84%% of all employees in the workforce be looking for a job right in 2011? Taken a step further if you were to look at Gowalla and Foursquare , and why they are/were successful-it’s based on the notion of a reward system-earning badges for “checking in”.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. New Edition of the Ranking Factors for 2011 is Now Live !: It’s pretty exhaustive too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. The article has examples of how social media worked too. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Growing Your Business: 5 Tips from the Founder of Foursquare (Mashable): Dennis Crowley knows his stuff, and he’s given some good and creative tips to build visibility to his business. Hey, Foursquare was pretty small once! Here are other examples about how to leverage the popular video sharing site to get a job.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 19, 2012

The post contained an infographic that predicted the most popular online activity and trend of the future to be location-based services such as Foursquare and Facebook Places. More than 4,500 timeline apps have launched since f8 in September 2011. Take Foursquare as an example. A small example.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. foursquare has a very interesting new dashboard that shows business owners data about how and when people have checked-in. At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge.

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