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JUNE 24, 2010

I just ditched AT&T for T-Mobile. They'll have a rep respond to you right away, get your email addy, and do their best to resolve it. Next, go onto Twitter and bitch about AT&T. About $10 cheaper, a free phone that plays FM radio, and unlimited everything, including internet access. All rights reserved.

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JULY 28, 2010

RT @jaybaer: 5 Simple Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Gold: [link] [link] Foundora 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness – [link] By @jaybaer [link] Deirdre Reid, CAE 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Marketing Greatness (by @jaybaer) [link] [link] Jack Scharff How can b2b apply? This was another excellent post.

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MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. It’s a journey that’s similar to my own when I merged my digital agency (Mighty Interactive) to Off Madison Ave in 2005. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. online population access the Internet from a mobile device. population. Among influentials?

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APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? That experience made me explore different industries, which lead me to B2B PR. That experience made me explore different industries, which lead me to B2B PR.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Fully virtual, fully mobile. [link] jaybaer So far, the scenery part has been a bit of a drag. But you're right, location is less of an issue now than ever before. In fact, my friend Mike is going 100% on the road. link] [link] jaybaer Thanks Linda. Great to see you on Saturday. I appreciate you being there. All rights reserved.

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MAY 26, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Are You Growing Enough Voices Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Now for more coffee. All rights reserved.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Combine that with location and mobile data, and you get real-time smart agents that tell you whom you should approach in a restaurant to buy a drink. But there is going to be an explosion of other smart agents. “Who Should I Know&# for example, is a relevant and important question that needs to be better answered. JF : Hyper-targeting.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Mobile is Critical MySpace was slow to adopt mobile technology, and the lack of MySpace in your pocket was part of what killed them. Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less. They recognize that the future is not in dot coms at all, but in deconstructing content and making it mobile and portable.

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APRIL 8, 2010

For now, I think it’s a highly mobile DVD player, game machine, Kindle, iPod, email appliance, and Web surfing device. But, iPad HD screen, color, and zoom make it better for magazines – and I can absolutely see education ( and mobile medicine) potential. What is it? I find Kindle to be easier and better as a book device.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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MARCH 16, 2010

Growth Is Slowing The true size of the Twitter audience is a bit tricky to pin down because 55% of its users do so via third party and mobile applications. According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mobile access to the social Web is a virtual requirement to do it well. Facebook The original Facebook app on iPhone was just okay, but it’s been massively improved, to the point that Facebook access via mobile might actually be easier than on a computer. 100 million people use Facebook mobile every month, by the way).

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AUGUST 18, 2012

Wondering which social network is most effective at generating b2b leads? B2b marketers believe social media is critical to organic search success. LinkedIn generates more leads for b2b companies than Facebook, Twitter or blogs. Yet only 47% of b2b marketers say they are actively using LinkedIn vs. 90% on Facebook.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. Since 2009, we have seen revolutionary wars and unspeakable natural disasters.

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MARCH 2, 2010

At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it. It is Mobile on the radar? The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Arm your manager with a mobile device and an email alert system: For the final question of the #socialmedia chat, we talked about tips for businesses looking to take advantage of Foursquare. If connecting with customers via mobile (Foursquare or otherwise) generates word of mouth that brings customers through the door, businesses will use it.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Starbucks is not only offering free Wi-Fi in all stores come this fall, but also unveiling their Starbucks Digital Network that all in-store web and mobile users will have the opportunity to enjoy (it’s a partnership with Yahoo!). Why would Starbucks need their own digital network? What’s Next (Potentially)?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The ability to make or consume social media from an array of mobile devices increases the convenience factor (and the pressure on my wi-fi router) immensely. Life is so boring under those conditions. Spontaneity I love that I can interact with clients and friends at any time, from nearly any place. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 23, 2010

As the ability to deliver these tasks via mobile meshes with geo-location technologies and intelligent advertising, this ‘C’ of the three C’s will truly blossom and become powerful for the brands that get it right. Next-generation crowdsourcing always recognizes effort via reward, social status, and incentives that are meaningful to the user.

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JUNE 16, 2010

And exceptional businesses are realizing tangible, meaningful outcomes using social media & mobile marketing. Whether B2B or B2C, customers are buying based on what they need. It simply “ turned up the volume &# with social and mobile tools — allowing customers to take utility to new heights.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

” Or that49% of B2B journalists write blogs, and 84% are on Twiter? companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. 85% of B2B journalists are on Facebook. .

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