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Five for Friday 7.23

Jeff Esposito

After three years, I finally succumbed to the pressure to get a smart phone. Social media turf wars: are marketing and PR on a collision course? This is a great article and conversation around the budding (if not all-out) feud between marketing and public relationships in the social media space.

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

Convince & Convert

Don’t Treat Fans Like Cattle To me, the key insight is less about who checks what first (although it would be interesting to see the impact of smart phone ownership on the results). One of the greatest benefits in the emergence of social media communication and marketing is that now every consumer has a voice that can be heard.

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Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? | E.

Convince & Convert

Working Together to Remove Money From Your Pocket What used to be content intended for all end-users to access the same way is now possibly just a piece of the marketing puzzle to properly equip cross-brand, cross-vertical collaboration and integration. We’re willing accomplices in our own marketing funnel.

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