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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace. Case in point Wal-Marting Across America uses a real journalist and real photographer, and sets them up as your average Wal-Mart fans, who travel across America, park their RV at Wal-Mart parking lots and hang and blog.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Four high-rise hotels surround Starbucks like castle ramparts, each filled with caffeine-crazed travelers. for most business travelers, it’s also incredibly helpful. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. Ask your customers directly.

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. I saw a HubSpot survey recently where a big number of marketers, I think it was about 87%, said that they would do less content if it meant they could do better content.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. RT @jaybaer: 6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in SM [link] [link] Travel 2.0

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# i feel like many of them had 5x the amount of friends on myspace than they do on facebook. i.e. I am offering exciting student travel destinations so reaching out to a Study Abroad groups o FB would be of interest.

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12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time

Buzz Marketing for Technology

When I looked over Tim’s pages, one of his best posts “The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen&# was categorized under travel. It’s not about travel; it’s about living life on your own terms. Brings all your favorite MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Gmail, Flickr, eBay, del.icio.us Travel (29). accounts â??

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