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Don’t Mistake Activity for Effectiveness in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

The world of the content marketer/social media marketer is changing. What that tells us and what a lot of old school social media marketers will tell you (old school being about eight years… ) is that the art of engagement has now become a science. I had mentioned in a previous post how it resets every day.

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Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

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Use Twitter as part of your firm’s marketing mix. He is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing.

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You know what Twitter needs to Fix?

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Since we have the ability to publish content across multiple social platforms at once, perhaps we should see what networks one is a part of. If we’ve been saying that numbers don’t matter and that it’s all about quality and not quantity, then that notion pretty much renders alot of what you see on the bio section as useless.

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Monetizing Facebook

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Recently, Social commerce platform ChompOn , threw down the gauntlet by publishing some data on how much a Facebook share and tweet is worth. Next we have some data by Emarketer in which it was reported that US marketers will spend $3.08 If we were, I would think much more would be happening in this space and business.

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Sports and Social Media-What have We Learned?

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This means that 1) we have realized the power and potential of the digitally written word/visual world and we realize its impact; and 2) all of us have become comfortable with the notion that we’re all publishers, editors and commentators of our lives, your lives and even the lives of people we know nothing about.

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Sports and Social Media-What have We Learned?

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This means that 1) we have realized the power and potential of the digitally written word/visual world and we realize its impact; and 2) all of us have become comfortable with the notion that we’re all publishers, editors and commentators of our lives, your lives and even the lives of people we know nothing about.

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We didn’t mean that transparent…

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See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You. But I have a simple point to make with a larger concern. look at these latest headlines. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy. What Do New Facebook Features Mean for Your Privacy? NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking.

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