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[Answered] Are Guest Blog Posts Even Worthwhile Or Am I Just Giving Away My Content?

SocMed Sean

Here’s what my Google Analytics looked like last month: Yep.that’s right. Emailing a blogger and asking them to “swap links” or “add you to their blogroll” is a thing of the past and just doesn’t work. You’re “buying” the link using your content as the currency.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

The web analytics team knows about what customers do with your own web assets, not about what customers do – in the real world and in online social channels where you don’t own the assets. Are they fickle with the brand of toothpaste they buy? Do they share opinions? Do they care what kind of car they drive?

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I Will Not Write About Old Spice

Adam Cohen

a thousand cuts :: adam cohen's blog About Blogroll Contact a thousand cuts conversations about social media and interactive marketing by adam cohen 16 JUL I Will Not Write About Old Spice Posted by: adam / Tags: Advertising , Isaiah Mustafa , Old Spice , Social Media , Television , YouTube / Comments: View Comments I will resist the urge.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

That’s like saying the first time you meet someone you should buy them a bottle of wine. Lots of businesses think that the only thing interesting to their “fans&# are discounts or promotions. Friendships, real friendships don’t start at the wallet and neither do truly engaged fan-business relationships.

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Are You Seeing ALL of Your Facebook Friends', Groups' and Pages.

Saying It Social

Pingback by I am trying to buy a home for my family, so I found the local foreclosure listings, but I don’t know what the statuses mean. Pingback by I am trying to buy a home for my family, so I found the local foreclosure listings, but I don’t know what the statuses mean.

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Happy National Small Business Week

Saying It Social

Pingback by Where can i buy a cheap or used am/fm cd player for my car? Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit May 26, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | small business , small business resources , national small business week , small business week DC , small business week event , youtube search stories 4 Comments » [.]

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Summer iPadwatch

The Way of the Web

I’m still holding out against buying one though – I still believe it’s primarily a consumption device rather than a creation device. And while one ended up as a discussion piece, the other was used for some iPad gaming for the whole journey as far as I could see.

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