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How to Run a Successful Facebook Contest for Your Business

Rebekah Radice

Product development crowdsourcing. You can later use them as social proof, and to show your potential customers how much your current customers love you. Just take a look at what Cricket Wireless did: they gave a $25 credit for every successful referral. Crowdsource Contest. Higher brand awareness. New emails and leads.

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How to Run a Successful Facebook Contest for Your Business

Rebekah Radice

Product development crowdsourcing. You can later use them as social proof, and to show your potential customers how much your current customers love you. Just take a look at what Cricket Wireless did: they gave a $25 credit for every successful referral. Crowdsource Contest. Higher brand awareness. New emails and leads.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Active across social networks, Cindy leads Microsoft’s small- to midsized-business sales and marketing efforts as Vice President U.S. Splitting time between Ottawa, Canada and Naples, Florida, Lisa is owner of Parlez Wireless as well as a sought-after social media strategist and speaker. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

I know you have to pay for WiFi on the iPad, but what if you have wireless at your home? I have wireless at home, which I connect the iPad to most of the time, since I work from home. The keyboard (dock or wireless) eliminates the text input problem, although it would be a bit clunky on a plane. How long would that take?

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Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? - They Already Are! (Part II)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Networking. Yes, I may be getting much more heavily involved with the various social networking spaces that I get to hang out in, but that is a decision I have made for myself and rather consciously. Because I am part of each of those different social networks. That is the ultimate power of the social network!

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The 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men Reprise

Webbiquity SMM

Social Networking: Like Falling In Love. Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical).

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Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? | E.

Convince & Convert

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?

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