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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? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch. My answer is certainly–yes!

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. Social media can be used as a mechanism to distribute discount coupons and offers, thereby making it a medium for implementing product life cycle strategies. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead.

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

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). May 12, 2004: 2 for 1. was about 1.20 at IPO in 1996, topped out at 108.17 August 3, 1998: 2 for 1.

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Jake's Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0

Firebelly

Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in 2004 for his friendsand classmates at Harvard University, then continued to branch it out to otherschools. Nobody expected it to even overtake social-networking giant MySpace,as it did in 2008, and eventually have more users than the USA has citizens. So how did this happen?

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Experiential Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Joseph Pine has an amazing Ted Talks video that explains the Experience Economy really well: Some stuff sounds like “yeah we know about authentic experiences already&# but the talk was from 2004. MySpace Australia Secret Shows. … here are the links that I mentioned in the Social Media Business Podcast: Awards Nuffnang.

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Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reports that as much as 75 percent of most companiesâ?? E-mail management including a strategy and processes for archiving, retention, and lifecycle management of enterprise e-mail. E-mail management strategies and technologies can certainly help but are not the sole answers to the e-mail problem.

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A Digtial Handshake With Paul Chaney

Diva Marketing Blog

I did realize that, unless I got with the program I was going to become archaic, a relic of the 2004-2005 blog-centric past. I think there was a lot of experimentation with social networks, starting most memorably with Friendster, then MySpace and now Facebook. I think you call that strategy. Again, that was my perspective.