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What’s the difference between buying Facebook fans and buying a email list?

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I might have finally “gotten&# it. I may now understand why people think its OK to buy Facebook fans. These same people have been buying direct mail and email.

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6 Twitter Do’s for Business

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It isn’t that this list is complete or even that it ever will be. Today we’re keeping it simple with some tactical suggestions on using Twitter for business. I’ve just.

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What you’ve got.

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I’ve started a list of things that I am grateful for that I have because I am a refugee: 10 Things I Enjoy Because I am not a Refugee. Let’s add this to our list. People in countries like Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan where life is hard enough when you have a an actual roof over your head. I truly appreciate it! Facebook.

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Tool Tuesday: Trunk.ly

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basically saves all the links you’ve posted across social networks and puts them in a list. More importantly, you can follow people who regularly share content you like and get a listing of all of their links. listing if I’d like. gives you the option to track the links within your posts add them to your link list.

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The difference between an audience and a community in new media

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Audiences can be purchased : Think about buying an email list or a direct mail list. Audiences operate independently: Audiences don’t know how they got on that mailing list and they don’t care who else is reading your ad. Interested in a community vs. an audience? This is an audience. Communities support one another.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: Increasing Foot Traffic for Retail Using Social Media and Event Marketing

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We also wanted to start building an email list for the shopping center so it could continue to reward and connect with their customers outside of social media. We used promotions on Facebook to build this list.

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Welcome to Hawaii PubCon Foodies

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I crowd-sourced this list with a little help from my friends: @melissa808 , @phillmoran @parkrat – thanks guys for your help! In honor of our social media world, this lists features favorite restaurants who are active in social media; a foodie/social media mashup if you will. Mavro’s @chefmavro.

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