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AUGUST 10, 2010

Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). I built my network on chicken appetizers and Bud Light. Every week.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Comparisons with other products in the category. Previously, content about Kodak products would have been created by the media. Photography magazines. Gizmodo and other tech blogs. Now, Kodak is creating their own content that looks and feels quite similar.

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JUNE 3, 2010

I think the banks/financial institutions should be included in your comparison. A sorry WOULD help but at this point, BP is way too ahead in terms of bad PR for it to make any difference. Fawn Thanks Jay. You are exactly on point here. Where is humanity in the corporate world today? What BP Can Learn From the Umpire.

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JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants.

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JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

But yet, companies want a step-by-step social media playbook from some other company that they can magically replicate. Excellent comparison to A/B and multivariate testing, too. link] jaybaer I love your post. Great, great stuff. It is in fact very similar.

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MAY 20, 2010

For example, data that shows that in comparison to last month, 15% more people went to your product pricing page after first visiting your Facebook page is a far superior KPI to number of Facebook “likes&#. All of these are diagnostic metrics (great post about that by the outrageously smart Christoper S. It’s about behavior.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I feel that once we dive down into the polling and the methodology, we'll find that the definition of “friend&# for the purposes of these surveys will have contexts different enough to render the comparisons (and thus the “trend&# ) meaningless.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I have found this to be a poor comparison. I totally get the point of the iPad as a way to make casually web browsing, social networking, and ebook-reading simpler and trendier, but in no way are these things “computers&#. Cool, and a difference-maker, but not 100% transformative. RevShark Great post Jay.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The one downside is Kodak’s built-in video software pales in comparison to Flip’s, forcing me to use iMovie on the Mac, which I can barely tolerate. Flowtown allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. Glad I stumbled here.

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JUNE 30, 2010

[link] [I like that interactive infograph] [link] Paula Bee Fun interactive info display, but I wish it allowed multiple side-by-side comparisons. link] [link] Paula Bee Fun interactive info display, but I wish it allowed multiple side-by-side comparisons. Are you among them?

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APRIL 27, 2010

Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? I don't fly a lot, but I've been on US Air in recent years; and that is the only airline (in comparison to American, JetBlue, and Southwest) that employs older white males as attendants and not younger women.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Same goes for location based social networks. Social networks are for exposure.

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JUNE 28, 2010

If it doesn't look good in comparison to the other ideas on your chart, that's a bad sign. [link] Hubert Sawyers III RT @brett: Why You Should Use a Content Rationale Report [link] (via @jaybaer @shannonpaul) [link] Ian Greenleigh Very cool. It also puts bad ideas in their place.

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