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5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

Duct Tape Marketing

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012 This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. No matter what business trends are reported in the media, small businesses will always adopt them more slowly and in ways that don’t follow the hype. Here are my predictions for 2012. Social networks evolve into markets.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Thursday, January 12, 2012. through the Yahoo! Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc.

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Why My Search Engine Use Is Dwindling and Why Yours Will Too

Duct Tape Marketing

This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces. Apps inside social networks are providing answers. Apps inside social bookmark sites are providing interesting reading.

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Blog Mastermind Is Closing Forever

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

One of the obvious areas of change is social media marketing. Next Digg rose to supremacy (the “Digg effect” was responsible for helping many sites become popular quickly, if they could make it to the front page of Digg several times), along with similar social sharing sites like Delicious and Reddit.