Direct Marketing Observations

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What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

Direct Marketing Observations

I know that the comparisons between Facebook and Twitter are not justified. Facebook is really about developing deeper relationships with friends and family whereas Twitter is more about sharing and consuming information with people in a quick and easy fashion. And now Facebook has created Deals … What has Twitter done ?

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Chances Are You’ve Met Less Than 5% of the People in Your Social Network

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Associated with or related to others, especially to influential or important people: a photographer who was well connected in the fashion world. It’s engaging in some Twitter banter, dropping a blog comment, and maybe having some extended conversations either via Twitter, IM or email. A phone conversation?

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10 social sites you might have missed

Direct Marketing Observations

You want to see micropayments in a down n’ dirty fashion? Pay attention to this post by Coree Silvera titled 36 Twitter Resources: Advanced Twitter Search for Business, It’s loaded with advanced Twitter search tips you probably don’t know about. This is it! 5) Check out the funky named Goomzee.

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Conversation Lost-How to Align B2B Social Media Marketing Efforts with the Right Strategy

Direct Marketing Observations

Over the past 7-8 years, the act of truly conversing has slowly dissipated on most social networks, Twitter in particular. In social media, because an ‘action’ did occur, marketers measured it in a positive fashion. On other networks, however, see Snap for example, the act of communicating has escalated and changed.

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30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010

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5) Let’s think in a forward fashion- Greenopolis is doing it, now we need to. 19) Another Google product Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow-Did you even know about it?

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