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Book Review: APE – Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch

Akamai Marketing

From crowdsourcing feedback to yes, marketing, the Kawasaki discusses how to leverage an active social community. In the marketing world, we essentially do this through focus groups. But few writers have access to actual focus groups. Kawasaki also covers ways to mobilize communities such as KickStarter and IndieGoGo.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more. Increasingly we’re controlling more of our lives from a small group of devices – smartphone, tablet, laptop, Kinect etc. President Obama has already announced the U.S

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is evolving beyond the shiny contest model (Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” ) and into something more meaningful to the brands embracing it and the consumers contributing to it. This is where crowdsourcing comes in. Embrace these people. That’s last year.

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How to Get Free Instagram Likes (Because They Still Matter)

Hootsuite

A group of men relax and drink Tuba (coconut wine) on a table off the beach in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines, on 20 April 2014. ?????? Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Visayas region of central Philippines, on 8 November 2013. Plus, you’re crowdsourcing some off-the-cuff focus group feedback. View this post on Instagram.

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32 Experts Share Their Best Blog Post Promotion Tips

Kikolani

I am part of a couple of groups that do this for each other such as The Best Keynote Speakers. Let me explain… If I wanted to write a resource on the 50 best marketing blog posts of 2013, I would search all over the web for great posts. For 49 more content marketing statistics from 2013 check here: [link].

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