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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Over the past couple years, one of the most common questions from business owners has been, “Do I need to be on Facebook and/or Twitter?&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

Industry 231
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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

I know that travel consumers booking via my hotel website i.e. direct customers are more loyal, bring more revenue and tend to travel more often. In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% companies use Facebook and 45% Twitter.

Hotels 85
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Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Ning, LinkedIn, Facebook) and the. Facebook group, Brandon Hall ). 2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0 College 2.0 : Online Learning and Web 2.0 College 2.0 : Online Learning and Web 2.0 College 2.0: (Facebook group, Eduardo Peirano ). application of Web 2.0

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Search Engine Statistics:: Google's share dips

The Marketing Blog

Popularity In a blog-post dated 15th March’ 10 , Hitwise had talked about Facebook displacing Google as the most popular website in US with a weekly market share of 7.07% in comparison to Google’s 7.03% Search Share Yesterday, in another study they announced that Google’s monthly search market share has dipped by 1%.

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Next Generation Companies

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Collaboration is nothing more than a group of people working toward a common goal – that's what Web 2.0 John can talk to twice as many customers and travel 50% less by using his own technology. There will be no separate networks for voice data etc – the network will become the platform. is all about.

Company 100
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Customer Service: The Cultural & Geographical Differences b/w India & Western World

The Marketing Blog

Be it Online Chat, Email, Twitter, Facebook or Phone, we used all of them. Finally, we received a reply from their India director that he was in-charge of key issues and was himself traveling out of India. Filed under: Customer , customer service , Web 2.0 Lastly, a couple of our customer portals went down.

Web 2.0 174
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Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st

Adam Cohen

Recent posts The Digital Five Tool Player Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media On Beyond Snake Oil Twitter Badges For Brands Who Want to Avoid Narcissism Social Media Chat Tuesday, July 21st I Will Not Write About Old Spice 10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media Recent Comments Powered by Disqus Facebook Activity (..)