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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.

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What’s Your Mobile Marketing Strategy?

Small Business Mavericks

Amidst all the hype with social media, there’s a growing trend that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle: Mobile marketing. Before starting my own company in 2006, I worked for 16 years in the wireless industry for AT&T Wireless and Cingular, so I’ve watched mobile develop over the years with more than a casual passers-by interest.

Mobile 107
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Top 100 Most Innovative and Influential People in the Web 2.0 World

Bill Hartzer

In the search category, the heads of Google , Microsoft , and Yahoo! Internet Evolution has narrowed down the list into 10 different categories, which include the most innovative and influential people in each category: Social Networking. News/Media. Wireless & Gadgets. Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo Inc. E-Commerce.

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Siteminis Launches Mobile Commerce Solution

Bill Hartzer

Before Siteminis developed this distinctive mobile-optimized solution to ecommerce, companies had to use a complex integration strategy to deploy multiple mobile sites, each designed and seen differently over different wireless carrier networks and phone Internet browser platforms. . – Working across all wireless carriers.

Mobile 138
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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. Stacey is flat-out awesome: Social Media Manager for Vocus/PRWeb as well as serving her country as a U.S.

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10 Reasons Celebrities Are Better at Instagram Than Brands

Hootsuite

Fame obviously gives celebs an edge over companies on social. Just like brands, celebs have a stake in social media, too. Nowadays, pop singers and movie stars are multi-hyphenate business magnates, running wireless networks, cosmetics brands, and eco-friendly water enterprises. View this post on Instagram. Try it today.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

, the sources below provide a vast wealth of data, statistics and research results, as well as a bit of interesting social media trivia. How are consumers and b2b decision makers using social media in their buying processes? Which social media platforms are most effective at influencing buyer behavior?

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