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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective. population.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

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.&# This resonates with me, since I've been saying for a while now, “Stripped down to its essentials, new media marketing is about participating in the conversations that will go on with or without us.&# There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM.