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- Your Social Strategy May Lack Key Elements for Increasing Conversions
- Nielsen Wants to Take the Mystery out of Measuring Online Advertising
- APNewsBreak: University posts info of 40K students (AP)
- IT Worker Gets Prison After Stealing Data for Online Surveys (PC World)
- PARTING SHOTS: Prisons helped draft AZ immigration law, Joe Miller in dead last (The Upshot)
- Online Masters Program Focuses on Free Software (PC World)
- Gawker editor defends anonymous O’Donnell post (The Upshot)
- Does Urgency Matter More in Email Than in Social Media?
- Using Social Media As A PR Tool For Your Business
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5 Reasons to Avoid Twitter, and Why You Should Not
If you’re not familiar with Twitter then you are probably not up to speed on social networking. But if you haven’t decided to create a Twitter account, you’re definitely not alone. Many internet marketers are wary of using Twitter for a number of reasons. Here are the top 5.
1. Useless Information. It’s true that many Twitter users update their Twitters with completely useless information. Do you really need to know that someone just finished their second cup of coffee or is leaving the office early for a pedicure? The good news is that if you find that you don’t particularly enjoy a person’s tweets, you don’t have to continue following them. But don’t eliminate… Continue reading
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7 Ways to Make the Social Web Work for You
If you haven’t yet realized that social networking is now the focal point of internet marketing, then you haven’t been paying attention. Utilizing social networking is more than creating a group on Facebook or opening a MySpace account. A business owner who truly understands social networking has a gift for taking a broad view of the internet. Where do people gather on the internet? What do they talk about?
How do they talk to each other? The difficulty with using social networking as a marketing strategy is that social networking requires marketers to step outside of their comfort zones and find new ways to deliver their messages. It doesn’t require a total rejection of traditional marketing techniques, but if you’re unwilling to follow your gut and build authentic relationships, then it might…
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