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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And so it goes with social networking.

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7 Customer Service Trends To Watch And Leverage In 2012

YoungUpstarts

In 2012, smart, forward-looking companies will be viewing customer service in new ways. They will be re-engineering their thinking to reshape the customer service paradigm to take advantage of the significant modifications in technology, social media and ever-shifting demographics. Being Social. Influencing the Social Masses.

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Top 10 Mom Marketing Trends As We Enter 2012

YoungUpstarts

Moms’ overwhelming embrace of social media and the profound impact of the recommendation culture on their consumer purchasing behavior. As we enter 2012, here’s our Top 10 list of Mom Marketing Trends: 1. Likewise, just 3% of Moms say targeted ads on their social networks strongly motivate them to make a purchase.

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How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning

The Next Web

And as such, you are no stranger to guest blogging. So, adhering to Google representatives’ recommendations of creating great content and SEO veterans’ instruction of linking to fresh content, it seems everyone started to guest post in different levels of blogs and content quality. Fast forward to 2014. So, what SHOULD you do in 2014?

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Twitter Link Roundup #163 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog – [link]. The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Netflix | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #162 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

What Company Culture IS and IS NOT | Rand’s Blog – [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link].

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Sherrie Madia and Paul Borgese have addressed the positives of this challenge in their book, “ The Social Media Survival Guide ,” on “everything you need to know to grow your business exponentially with social media.” Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010.