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Social Media in the Industry: Customization is the Key to Success

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Without a clear methodology of measuring ROI, many businesses are still cautious to spend their marketing budget on social media and web 2.0. On top of that, let’s add all of the other social networks out there including Linkedin, Foursquare, Myspace, Friendster, Tumblr, YouTube and the list goes on. Tourism/Travel/Hospitality.

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

We use it for online transactions, travel decisions, job searches, purchases, research, and a dozen other activities. Looking back at MySpace, it almost looks like pre-Y2k web Dev. Search is and has been woven into the fabric of our daily lives thanks to Google. It is a utility that drives our online and offline interactions.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace. Case in point Wal-Marting Across America uses a real journalist and real photographer, and sets them up as your average Wal-Mart fans, who travel across America, park their RV at Wal-Mart parking lots and hang and blog.

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YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Firebelly at Blog Indiana | Main | 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles » August 24, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places People are calling it a FourSquare killer. The worrying thing is that it's a travel log that everyone can view.

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5 Helpful Social Search Articles

Firebelly

For many news pages, social media has become the number one referrer and we are seeing some evidence that websites in the travel vertical and other such experience/story based content websites are moving towards the same pattern. Chad Richards is Social Marketing Manager at Firebelly Marketing, a social media marketing agency.

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Jake's Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media? MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter together dominate theweb. Jake Hamilton  is an  Intern  at  Firebelly Marketing , and a student at Indiana University. Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media?

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing? Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing? This gave rise to regional marketing with the first hints of large scale world-wide marketing.