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How to Create a Thriving B2B Advocacy Community

Convince & Convert

Tweetable Moments Too many marketers these days are like T-rexes, with little, tiny arms. jtroyer Tweet This Giving Back to Your Top Influencers Back in 2003, VMware ‘s online community was centered around a forum. This begs the question: is social media, in its current incarnation, serving the senior population?

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. How mainstream media and social media created fantasy hype.

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Social Success Comes from Individuality

Convince & Convert

An interesting theme arose with the Social Pros in April: everyone ended up talking about how important individualization is in social media. His first post on Facebook appealed to his friends asking for help, and it soon became clear that social media was a great way to find information.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At this stage, most early adopters and heavy users of other social networking sites would be the majority of new registrants as they are very well aware of the new developments in the networking space. Current social networks in the growth stage are Twitter and Facebook. How relevant is social media life cycle for a business?

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

I recently had the honour of speaking at Seneca College ‘s “Make it Happen” event for about 400 of their marketing students. For me, it’s evolved over time… but it really started with social media. When social media first emerged, I found it absolutely compelling. That vision drove me.

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The Complete Solo Build It! Review - An Insider’s Perspective

The Social Media Hat

I was quite surprised then when, 6 months later, she recommended me to take the role of Chief Marketing Officer for SiteSell, a company that has been helping solopreneurs like her to start online businesses since 1997. For several hours, we discussed marketing strategy and my experience. No joke: I was floored. I love Amy.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

So the question is–are there things that today’s B2B marketers can learn from history, specifically, the tremendous success of Facebook and the rise, fall and possible resurrection of Myspace? How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? My answer is certainly–yes!

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