Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

You only have to think back a few years to MySpace to see why you should not build on someone else’s digital land. When MySpace launched, it was full of promise, Many people, businesses, and artists flocked to it, creating pages and in some cases, taking down their websites and pointing their domain names to their MySpace page.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 13, 2019

They include: Abercrombie & Fitch. BlackBerry. Blockbuster. Circuit City. Clinton Cards. Commodore Corp. DeLorean Motor. Napster, and. And following are: Some Brands that Listened. Continuous customer feedback is the bedrock of innovation because companies that listen innovate. They include: Adobe Systems.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Even MySpace is still in the running, for very specific demographics. Don’t assume that social media comprises just Twitter, Facebook and maybe LinkedIn. There are thousands of niche networking sites, industry forums and other opportunities to connect with a far more segmented audience than the big sites offer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2012

As for social networks, you might have heard of a site called MySpace. Studebaker was once the number one luxury car. Now, it’s out of business. was the number one search engine. It’s still number one… in Japan. Needless to say, it’s no longer number one.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We all know that social media platforms are used for different purposes: MySpace (did you see how it’s been revamped?) This is not an “If you build it they will come” operation. They’ve already built it, so we have to go to our targets wherever they are.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2012

But let’s skip a step and just grant that some other company will pass Facebook and knock it in to second place (I don’t think anyone see it falling to third or lower like MySpace, but hey, it’s a random universe). was about 1.20 at IPO in 1996, topped out at 108.17 in December of ’99 and is 15.42

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 14, 2011

My soldiers told me MySpace was a place to meet girls, so it didn’t seem to have a practical business application and I didn’t want another password to remember. While I was an early adopter of social sites like LinkedIn, most PR pros weren’t generally using social media for PR purposes. Facebook had a mere 20 million registered users.

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