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AuthorLinks Rebrands as AuthPost, Continues Selling Posts Based on Google Authorship, Klout Score

Bill Hartzer

AuthorLinks , the first-ever marketplace to buy and sell Google Authorship, has rebranded as AuthPost. As you might recall, I wrote about AuthorLinks and how the site was the first to buy and sell Google Authorship. Marketing' With this new branding, the site is focusing on posts first, and not links.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Adds Photo Tagging, Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

The Realtime Report

Facebook to buy Oculus VR, maker of the Rift headset, for around $2B in cash and stock – last week Facebook announced the acquisition of Oculus VR, “the leader in virtual reality technology;” initial efforts will focus on gaming, but will expand to other experiences as well (TechCrunch). Foursquare.

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How To Monitor Your Three Essential Internet Marketing Strategies

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Internet marketing strategies vary depending on the nature of the blog, brand, or business and alter with accordance to their physical and digital size and their particular niche. When it comes to marketing any organization, product, or service on the web, there tends to be three essential ways of doing so: Dominating social media platforms.

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Ford Launches Fiesta With Young, Social Media-Savvy Influencers

The Realtime Report

Inspired by marketing in the gaming and tech industry, Ford decided to invest in a “pre-launch” for the automaker’s Fiesta model, looking to create buzz and “develop demand before the product even really exists.” “If you talk about the new product, who would buy the old one?”

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The 3 Keys to Social Influence

Convince & Convert

This is an interview I did with Klout for their Klout Stars series , where they ask “influencers&# about their background in social media. I moved out of that industry into digital marketing in 1994. I love social because it’s the perfect combination of online marketing and retail politics.

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The One Marketing Technique that’s Best for Your Launch

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So what’s my recommendation to entrepreneurs and marketing professionals who are looking for an awesome launch? Almost every marketing campaign tracks the 3 metrics (pageviews, registered users and converted paying customers), but I get a sense that engagement of users instead of paying users was a far better metric to track during beta.

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What the #measurePR Community Thinks of 2012

Waxing UnLyrical

Holding true to form, we did beat up on Klout a bit – not many fans in the measurement crowd. Also discussed was measurement’s problem with “attribution uncertainty” – the inability to track what compelled a consumer to buy, or a reader to share something. Alexa and SeoMoz also were mentioned. Birds of a feather…”.