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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Admittedly, I am a market skeptic, and Facebook had a strange first day on the market by popping six percent and cruising back down to a 23 cent gain at the bell.

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Awareness to Sales: Building a Social Media PRISM Funnel That Converts – Ian Cleary [SSM051]

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Is social media best used for sales or for brand awareness and engagement? The age-old question that marketers have been debating even before Mark Zuckerberg started TheFacebook in his tiny Harvard dorm room back in 2004. Why both awareness and sales are an important part of social media. Is there one?

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Google, Social Media, and the Wisdom of Enigmas

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Daniel Lemin of marketing innovation consultancy Social Studio. He provides brands and agencies with the research, insights and good old-fashioned know-how needed to be more effective marketers. In the early part of my career I was fortunate to land a job on the corporate marketing team at Google.

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240: 7 Social Media Trends I Noticed at Social Media Marketing World

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Key Themes and Trends from the Social Media Marketing World Conference. In today’s episode, I want to share seven trends people were talking about at the Social Media Marketing World mega-conference recently held in San Diego. Which social network should you focus on? Instagram Live. Ecamm Live.

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How Obama Sets Online Marketing High

Ari Herzog

It has nothing to do with Obama himself, other than the fact that his team was the first to use online marketing strategies effectively in the execution of a presidential campaign. The online marketing industry will benefit greatly from the competitive spending that will surely follow this $1 billion campaign.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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Internet IPO since Google back in 2004. Everyone from investors to start-up entrepreneurs and media pundits have looked at this deal sideways. It's just hard to imagine that an online social network specifically targeted to the business professional suddenly has a valuation that rivals brands like Tiffany & Co. media pundit.

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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?