Direct Marketing Observations

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The secret sauce of social is selfishness-and that’s not a bad thing

Direct Marketing Observations

It starts with Linkedin. Linkedin is and became one of the initial gateways into people’s lives; and for a lot of people, who were never into that “social thing&# , and who are still not that social, Linkedin is their gateway into social media. But at the end of the day, is Linkedin a social network?

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Social Media Consultants & Companies-The truth can be found in their numbers

Direct Marketing Observations

Back then, comment spam and server farms did wonders for text based links and I was all over it. If they can’t get Twitter right, does this mean that their Facebook strategy and or their blog, or Linkedin strategy will be any different? I was the one gaming the system. But a funny thing happened.