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Social Media for B2B-10 links for the week that was in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Forget Facebook and Twitter, For B2B, it’s all about Linkedin. How many of you currently use Linkedin in your social media marketing/marketing efforts? Tags: SEO/SEM b2b b2c marc meyer social media Social Media marketing. How to Fail at B2B Social Media. 4) Speaking of B2B, forget what you just read and read this.

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The secret sauce of social is selfishness-and that’s not a bad thing

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It starts with Linkedin. Linkedin is and became one of the initial gateways into people’s lives; and for a lot of people, who were never into that “social thing&# , and who are still not that social, Linkedin is their gateway into social media. But at the end of the day, is Linkedin a social network?

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Social Media Consultants & Companies-The truth can be found in their numbers

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If they can’t get Twitter right, does this mean that their Facebook strategy and or their blog, or Linkedin strategy will be any different? Tags: SEO/SEM social media marc meyer social media consulting social media consultants. Social Media is equal parts strategy, tactics and tools as it is about labor.

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There is No Social Media Bubble

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It’s sexy to say that the recent valuations of social networking companies and platforms is very similar to the dot com bubble valuations. Except, it was easy to see back then ( or is that now?)

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It’s Time to Rethink Facebook

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Here’s a list of contenders/pretenders “other” than Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Snap, in no particular order. However, if you had told those 35 million users that eventually AOL would be deemed irrelevant in less than 10 years, they might have laughed. So what is currently out there that might replace Facebook?

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