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Social Media Hitchhiking: Audi Sends College Student Cross-Country Using Only Digital Networks

The Realtime Report

Young adults are buying fewer cars, and this experiment is a (rather extreme) example of how social networks and smartphones make carsharing – and apparently couchsurfing – a more viable opportunity for those seeking mobility with little (or no) cost. . “In the future, we’ll need more than cars.”

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

Convince & Convert

.&# Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.