Direct Marketing Observations

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Content is under scrutiny? It’s about time.

Direct Marketing Observations

Recently we were doing some work for a very prominent client where in the analysis of brand mentions we had to sort through thousands, yes thousands, of useless pages of content on websites that were set up as splogs to drive better search results around pages geared towards Google Adwords. Google and search dominate the web.

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The Random on Social Media, Music, Sports, Books and Movies

Direct Marketing Observations

I just watched an analysis about the HP CEO ouster and read that they have had 7 CEO’s sinc 1999…7 in 12 years. 2) Should Google or it’s competitiors pay us to use their search engines? I know I can. A woman told me I looked like Brad Pitt over the weekend-she was very old. I do want to see Moneyball though.

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30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010

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4) A ridiculously long Directory of Social Media Monitoring and Analysis Tools. 19) Another Google product Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow-Did you even know about it? Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine.

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