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What Is an Everything App? Complete Guide to Super Apps

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South Korean residents can also sign up for Kakao Bank to manage investments, request loans, and purchase insurance. Social media and microblogging What would an everything app be without a social media component? Source: KakaoTalk Travel Most super apps include car or taxi booking services, like Line Taxi or Kakao T.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). Small business is slow to catch on.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Jamie Gorman May 5, 2010 at 6:02 pm Tamar, I had a friend show me a FB page he is designing for an insurance agency where he put a promotional picture (save money on your insurance) where the profile picture would normally be. For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky. Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I have encountered another FB fan page issue: as owner of travel agency start-up I cannot get the fan page address until I have 25+ fans (it used to be higher in the past)…ridiculous arbitrary number…why can’t I give a fan page address directly to potential customers? . Just my $0.02.

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