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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

Waxing UnLyrical

Social networks are great for business. It is understandable, then, why business owners are flocking to set up shop on social networks and sometimes forgoing the building their own websites in favor of a social network presence. Guest post by Cal Evans. Is this the smart way to go though?

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Is Being Too Social Ruining Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

There will come a time where we just won’t want to share, chat, upload, download, friend, follow, or like from a social standpoint, a mobile standpoint, and a mobile social standpoint. social networks) then demand goes down right? Who you are connected to within Facebook is your network.

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Quit Renting Your Audience in Social Media

Convince & Convert

Why did we move from owned social to leased social in the first place? ” Once a large percentage of our potential customers began congregating in third-party social networks, we began to see these venues as sources of net new customer acquisition. Please enjoy, and feel free to download this file.

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Pheed App: Better Social than Twitter or Facebook?

Bill Hartzer

If you have spent any amount of time online, you have probably spent at least a few minutes browsing a social network. Almost every brick and mortar business has some form of social media presence that it uses to help customers better connect with their products and / or brand.

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4 Ways to Dramatically Improve Your Social Media Photos

Convince & Convert

Hundreds of millions of photos are posted to social networks every day. The disposable nature of social imagery. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that photos were rarely seen in social media, other that profile pics and sketchy Myspace shenanigans. Twitter (sometimes). Google + (RIP?).

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Download the Social Media Press Release (pdf) and at least see what parts you want to take into your traditional press releases. Interview current social media practitioners. Don’t fabricate this). Explore distribution.

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Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. Recent comments Hi, Facebook is the best social network on the Internet and.

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