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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

From big brands creating campaigns on Facebook to group buying sites like Groupon to subscription services such as Birchbox and Shoedazzle to highly curated specialty sites such as Fab.com , 2011 saw large increases in consumers buying online. New financial services and healthcare regulation will also create the need for related IT solutions.

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The One-Week Social Selling Action Plan

Duct Tape Marketing

By the end of this post, you will have a one-week action plan for systematizing social selling to win dozens of more meetings and closed business every month, and once your system is up and running, you’ll find that the time investment is very minimal. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Australia has the highest usage and penetration of social media at an average of 7 hours a month. We’ve been brought up in a world that was: - Pre internet. - Pre mobile phone. - Pre Google. - Pre Social media. - Pre Wikipedia. A live stock exchange of media buying. They haven’t.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. The curated approach gives advertisers and publishers more comfort in knowing the quality of content they will be amongst. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35).

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Screw the Jockey, Bet on the Mafia

Babbling VC

The above part of the post and the following section completely summarizes why these "mafias" exist and work: And like Facebook, companies like Asana, Path and Quora are trying to solve problems that are inherently social. Not social in the capital-S SOCIAL MEDIA! Bear with me.).

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: And he’s coming to us today from the little country of Genovia, somewhere in Eastern Europe. It’s all about curating the best 10 and if you just put out the 50th best, you’re going to be in 50th place in Google, but if you work the extra mile to make the best, you have a shot of hitting number one.

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How Much Does Content Marketing Cost?

Brandanew

3) Your existing state of Social Media. 3) Content Marketing & Social Media : Again things like 70% fake followers would mean first taking off those fakes and then restarting the building of an organic following. PR costs are also very regional so from Europe to India, there will be a large difference.

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