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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). Then more and more came on board in a sort of me too fashion offering niche networks for people. Small business is slow to catch on. I run an IT support company for small businesses. It really worries me! Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky. Many companies just see this as a new avenue to push existing traditional marketing messages, and this is why they almost always fail.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

A national survey of reporters and editors revealed that 89% use blogs for story research, 65% turn to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and 52% utilize microblogging services such as Twitter. 75% of B2B marketers use microblogging tools such as Twitter vs. 49% of B2C marketers.

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