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10 social sites to start your year off with

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These are sites, posts and links that will make you smarter at what you do and better at it too. 1) A September 2009 MarketingProfs survey of B2B and B2C marketers found that the marketing tactics most often used on social sites are not necessarily the best ones. Check out this list of 30 bloggers to watch in 2010.

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The propensity to Repeat in Social Media

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Because social media is “still&# new and still growing, the thinking can be that there is always someone new coming to the party that may or may not be reading content for the first time, seeing a site for the first time and using an app for the first time. From the standpoint of the blogger. We’re hoping for fresh.

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Content is under scrutiny? It’s about time.

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They might be the first to tell you that there is a proliferation of sites that rip off other people’s content because they’re too lazy to build their own audiences based on fresh content and fresh thoughts and ideas; and that is a problem. What sites were at the end of the spoke and so on and so forth.

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Social Media Specialists Are No Longer Needed

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We all could mildly claim that we are or were bloggers at one point in time, except that it’s now merely part of what we do for our clients and respective companies. or starting blogger outreach campaigns ? We all did something before social media. The PR person of today has many skills across multiple disciplines.

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Content Fatigue and Whatever Happened to the Snake Oil folks in Social Media?

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I do it for my site and I instruct clients on what to write, how to write, where to write, and when to write and frankly I’m sometimes overcome with social media writers fatigue. Tired of reading the same content? Tired or stumped on what you might write today or tomorrow? Do you create content for your blog or for your company blog?

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Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

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Marc is also a featured writer and member of his favorite “go-to” site, Social Media Today. Steve is the blogger in residence at MyVenturePad.

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