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Google Adds Reputation Management to Dashboard :: Small Business.

Duct Tape Marketing

It also appears that this is another way for Google to place emphasis on creating and using Profile pages – something that likely plays heavily in their plans for a social network of some sort. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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Google Finally Weaving Local Strategy :: Small Business Marketing.

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Both of these moved signal a renewed focus on making both Profiles and Places pages more important in their ecosystem and perhaps ultimately in a social network of some sort.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said.

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Getting Better At Email

YoungUpstarts

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009. The rest is just digital noise. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Unique social networking product. Highly profitable.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009.

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Google+ Offers Great Business Potential :: Small Business.

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Facebook is a social network, built from the ground up for that purpose, by a company that does nothing else. My view is that no one thing can slow Facebook, they’ve simply grown too large and too important for too many people.