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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

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So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Like this post?

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #122

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Looming in the wings is Facebook - and lest we think things are done, don't forget that 5 years ago it was MySpace and Yahoo fighting for top slot in the world. the book oven. Prior to this month, who even gave Samsung a second thought as a 'player'? alistair croll. bitcurrent. blackberry. complete web monitoring. eric schmidt.

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We’ve seen that individuals nowadays don’t sift through their Yellow Pages to find a local business (nor do many people even own such a big book any longer); they turn to the Internet for help. Is MySpace marketing really worth it? How can I navigate the millions of questions on Yahoo! Should I start a video blog ?

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Announcing the Newest Social Media Prince

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I recently wrapped up writing a book on social media marketing for individuals to large businesses entitled The New Community Rules ( Amazon link ) and the book is slated for a late June/early July release. And congrats on the book, too. Wow, a baby and a book. Answers Yahoo! David Jacob … love the name.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Jonathan Fields Self Help,&# asking him to review a new book.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Dana Lookadoo December 3, 2008 at 8:36 pm Gab, LinkedIn launched new apps at the end of October, including sharing of books through Amazon, WordPress blog feeds, etc. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo!