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Is Twitter Crossing the Line Between Useful and Creepy

Convince & Convert

Image via Wall Street Journal blog. Thus, Twitter is following its now- familiar playbook of watching other companies innovate on its platform, and then either buying that technology, or copying it. Interestingly, this would put Twitter squarely on the turf of Foursquare, as pointed out by Brent Carnduff on Business 2 Community.

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The Next Billion-Dollar Startup

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Believe it or not, there is a laundry list of great, new companies who had very interesting valuations prior to the Instagram acquisition, but now they're looking prettier than ever. The company makes money by charging 2.75% on every credit card transaction. Will it be for more money?

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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How to Use Social Proof to Boost Conversions

Sprout Social

Imagine if brick and mortar companies displayed the average review of every product they sold in stores. For local businesses that might mean Yelp, Google and FourSquare. For others like software companies, aim for positive feedback on sites like G2 Crowd. This has actually already started happening. Customer Testimonials.

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Director of Social Media

Koka Sexton

I did some tweaking on the @paragonamerica profile, it had about 6 followers at the time and started feeding in some updates and links to news about the company. There are some contributing factors like the company already maintaining the corporate @paragonsoftware profile. I started a company blog on WordPress.com.

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Director of Social Media

Koka Sexton

I did some tweaking on the @paragonamerica profile, it had about 6 followers at the time and started feeding in some updates and links to news about the company. There are some contributing factors like the company already maintaining the corporate @paragonsoftware profile. I started a company blog on WordPress.com.