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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Tweet So, a rumour says that Yahoo is shutting down Delicious … or not. It’s not just a free tool – it’s a key part of marketing activities for many brands (and has long since ceased to be free for many given application development and media buy costs). However, you don’t own them.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #100

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Faced with bankruptcy--and realizing this deal costs the company a million or more a year--American decided to try and shut them down. How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet - Gizmodo. When I first rediscovered the Web in 2004, it was WordPress , Wikipedia , Flickr and Delicious that revealed to me a new future.

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Why Should You Invest in SEO?

Social Media Marketing

We all wanted to see the website we worked hard for with our blood, sweat, and tears to be on the first page of Google or Yahoo or even Bing. Whenever someone searches on search engines, that someone would get links to pages that Google, Yahoo or other search engines consider relevant and authoritative. But that’s it.

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The Perfect Website For Off-Line Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

Unloads Delicious » The Perfect Website For Off-Line Marketing Ever wonder how you can use online sources for off-line marketing? There actually is a website that is perfect for this and that was created specifically for that purpose. Any way you look at it, Meetup is a great way to use the Internet for your off-line marketing efforts.

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

1: Opportunity Cost – Every time you spend a minute on social media is one minute you potentially lost revenue. This inherent cost needs to be included in any equations you make when allocating resources. The good thing about social media is that the opportunity cost tends to mostly be time. Specially Google, Yahoo and Msn.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The only substantial cost for you is time. What is the benefit of delicious ? How can I navigate the millions of questions on Yahoo! Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Celebrating the most important marriage of the week…

The Way of the Web

I’m celebrating the marriage of Delicious , the incredibly useful and powerful social bookmarking service which was neglected since acquisition by Yahoo, with new owners AVOS, which despite sounding like a major shopping website, is actually the new company from Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.