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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. It’s very easy to use. Users flee MySpace.

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Top five: New features tools and services from the ‘Big Three’ (plus Pinterest)

Sherrilynne Starkie

Now Pinterest is introducing its own version to help users jump easily to boards by using their smart phone cameras. The professionals’ social network is introducing lead forms for Sponsored InMails. Struggling to keep up with social media trends and innovation? LinkedIn adds lead capture forms to InMail.

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Top Marketing Trends for 2013

yMarketingMatters

Responsive web design provides an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors, tablets to mobile smart phones. Consumers are going SoLoMo: They shop socially, search locally and do it all on mobile devices.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

The cross-channel customer is also a multi-device consumer and smart phones play an increasing role in communication, networking, social media usage and entertainment. hours/week on social networks and 2.2 Or that more people own a smart phone than use Facebook? hours on email.

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B2B Marketing Stats from HubSpot’s Marketing Data Box

Webbiquity SMM

consumers own smart phones. cell phone users owned a smart phone. While execution is more urgent for consumer marketers, B2B marketers need to at least start thinking strategically about topics like apps, QR codes, and how their content appears on smart phones. Slide 35: Nearly one-third of U.S.

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7 Tactics for Promoting Your Brick-And-Mortar Business Online

The Social Media Incubator

Business branding pages – Most social networking sites that allow you to set up a business branding page allow you to brand your business page consistent with your business website. Write a press release and distribute it online to services like PRWeb.

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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

Akamai Marketing

Businesses are looking for ways to see the lifespan of their “social circle”, they want to know what platforms I follow them on, if I follow them on all three and which of my email addresses tie back to the profile. Much like radio and TV have certain demographic segmentation, social platforms will too.