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Top Internet Marketing Strategies & Affiliate Marketing

Interesting survey data has been published by eMarketer.com with a reference to an August research conducted jointly by Internet Retailer and Vovici Corp.: As look through the above statistics, the two things that I see in it are: 1. Social Media Channels Are Top Priority While I am not entirely […]

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19% of Online Americans Actively Socialize Online

Interesting statistics has been announced by the Pew Internet & American Life Project today. Out of the 2,253 online Americans they have surveyed (via phone interviews), 19% say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others”. As expected, “mobile users are

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Microblogging versus Social Networking: Twitter vs Facebook

Not too long ago I have blogged about the 17 types of social media marketing channels. Since then Facebook has acquired FriendFeed [more here], which should enhance the real-time social search on Facebook, making things significantly better than they currently are on Twitter Search. Another reason behind it may be

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Types of Social Media to Use in Marketing

There is a number of social media channels/types that a company — be it an online-based, or a brick-and-mortar one — can successfully use in their marketing. I could count the following seventeen: Blogging Content aggregation Crowdsourcing Forums Livecasting Microblogging Photosharing Podcasting Presentation sharing Reviews & opinion sites Social bookmarking

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7 Tips on Picking a Social Media "Guru"

As I look at people’s bios (self-descriptions) on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media sites, I see way too many calling themselves social media gurus, experts, and social media strategists. The self-proclaimed gurus have appeared from everywhere, but how do you tell an expert from a non-expert? How do

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Five Pillars of Social Website's Success

Paraphrasing Seth Godin’s points on what people are looking for when they are visiting social websites, we would arrive at the following list: Finding like-minded people Communicating and socializing Building own popularity Staying on top of news Entertaining oneself and “making noise” Satisfaction of the above needs will build up

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