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Do you need to be an Extrovert to be in Social Media Marketing?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The 1-9-90 theory that says out of every hundred people who join a community or network – 1% actively contribute – 9% contribute from time to time – and 90% are lurkers. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Reddit. Stumble upon something good?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’m sure there are examples on the other side of this, but thriving communities on B2C or B2B have large populations of lurkers that are largely there for transactions (they want an answer, knowledge, expertise, learning, examples, etc) and don’t really engage in the community itself. advertising. blogcouncil. bookmarking.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Todd Heim supplies a helpful guide to best practices for building a following on and generating traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx and Propeller. Kevin Barenblat presentes a taxonomy of social media failure types, including “canned responders,&# spammers, lurkers and serial re-tweeters.

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

Digg lets you find news that you know hundreds of other people recommend. Reply Brady says: August 8, 2010 at 10:06 pm Long time lurker, Cloud Living lover, and first-time commenting here. Be Useful Pretty much every legitimate site on the Internet serves some useful purpose to it’s users. Google lets you find awesome websites.

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