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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

It’s the trend and prediction season, and there’s one overarching theme which ties together the main three technology trends I believe will break into the mainstream in 2012. And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more.

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Why Facebook Timeline Ads Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

Imagine the not so distant future, say October 2012, and my Henry Wood Detective series has started to get some traction. One day, possibly Thursday Oct 4, 2012, a woman in Devonshire, U.K. What I wonder is why Facebook, in its marketing plans, doesn’t give me an option of paying for their service? I wish them ill.

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

Convince & Convert

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? 59% are on Twitter, and 43% use a company blog for marketing.