Direct Marketing Observations

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When Does Online Privacy Not Matter Anymore?

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View and manage any of your documents and files in Google Drive. Depending on what your beliefs are, the bar for leveraging the usage of a service against what is indeed your personal IP and private data has either been lowered or raised. View your email address. Perform these operations when I’m not using the application.

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The Problem with Blending Organic Results with Social Information

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Hey Google, you know me, but do you really know me? I know, I know, you have all that customer data and you’ve just changed, refined your privacy policy so I know you really know me but… we’ve known each other for at least 10 years and we’ve grown on each other but…I have a beef.

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Monitor your social space with 7 tools and 16 minutes of setup.

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Google Replay. To check out this feature, do the following: Go to the Google homepage, click on the show options link, and then click on updates. A waterfall of real time data coming from Twitter. 2) Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) Time elapsed: 30 seconds.

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10 Things I Thought About in 2016 that Will Still Matter in 2017

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I wrote a lot about customer focus and for good reason, a lot of the data coming out, basically says, either focus on the customer NOW or you’re gonna lose them. Google analytics. Not a day went by where I did not talk about The Internet of Things. Paid social, ugh… Snackable Content-That’s all we want! Make it right.

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Social Media: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and What’s Next?

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One thing that is safe to say is that Google will make another play in the social space. Because Google understands that if you can keep your people in network, then you can market to them, you can sell to them, and they are that much more valuable to you and your partners. What’s next in social media? And it makes sense.

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10 social links, posts and sites you might have missed

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1) Nevertheless, this post The New 2010 Social Media Data Flow, With Buzz is about content creation on multiple platforms and data flow, who see it, where do they see it and how to avoid duplication. 3) If I were you, I’d keep my eye on Google and their plays in the social space, they are looming larger and larger.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

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The question though is, do the social platforms really care about us the user or us, the data source? This isn’t as much a prediction as it is an acknowledgment that people search whether it’s via Google or via Facebook. In other words, we’re a little bit smarter and a little bit savvier on how this social media thing works.

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