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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17

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cybersoc.com: 3 types of blog: closed, conduit and participant in the conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Im an ex contributor to Shiny Media and I would be interested to know how you would categorise their blogs - they must be seen as taking part in a conversation, but as a commercial enterprise and in competing with mainsteam media, with the backing of major advertisers, do such high profile operations merit a further category? my myspace.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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 Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

advertising? Advertising versus Free/Premium subscriptions. LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff) $75-100m – 1/4 from advertising. I personally think that any social network that relies on traditional advertising for revenue is nuts. per member per year over at MySpace is NOT high.

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was told that the “mistake&# about the Foursquare-Facebook promotion was legitimate, since they were polling users on Facebook to find places where Foursquare badges can be given — yes, read that again. Seems odd to ask where to put FourSquare badges anyhow. I’m not convinced. Answers Yahoo!

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

Convince & Convert

It's not like the “old days&# where TV/radios advertisements and marketing campaigns had to appeal to broadly defined targets markets. 39% of the people that check email first still use Facebook daily, but their motivation for doing so remains deal-centric.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Surprisingly, this is being used not just for straight advertising. As a small extension of that, Facebook allows you to create your own “profile badge,&# a snippet of code that you can display on other websites, and even for users who don’t have Facebook. Thoughtful. Facebook is engaging. What does this mean?

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