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What B2B Marketers Need to Know About Social Media in China

KoMarketing Associates

If you go to China and make new friends there, you will be frustrated when you want to add them as Facebook friends or follow their Twitter account. Like Google, Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China due to the censorship issue. QQ is an instant messaging service, similar to Line, Skype, or Facebook messenger.

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You Do Not Own Your Audience

Convince & Convert

To win a copy, just find an audience acquisition method in the wild – some way that businesses are capturing emails, Facebook likes, Twitter followers, etc. They can turn off their televisions, unfollow you on Twitter and RSS feeds, unlike you on Facebook, unsubscribe from your email lists. in the offline world.

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Facebook Doubles Revenue – How Long Can it Sustain This Growth?

readwrite

According to reports, Facebook has doubled its revenue in the first half of 2011. The largest portion of Facebook’s revenue is believed to come from advertising, indicating the company has created a dynamic niche for itself on the Web that advertisers are beginning to flock to en masse. Meanwhile, Facebook rose from 12.2%

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Voice Computing Puts the Words Back in Your Mouth

Convince & Convert

The week prior in New York, I had a number of Inbound Marketing Summit attendees awarding a victory to Apple, telling me that SIRI obviously is the clear winner by putting such technology into iPhone 4S users’ hands in late 2011 (and now the iPad, in version 3). and “which restaurant is best for a Catholic on Fridays during Lent?”

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The First-Mover Advantage, Explained

Hubspot

Borders shuttered in 2011 and Barnes & Noble -- Where Amazon’s Jeff Bezos used to have company meetings -- has consistently seen falling shares, revenue, layoffs, and store closures. Acquisitions of companies including iBazar and PayPal, and the 2009 sale of Skype, have helped it maintain market relevancy and dominance.

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Why Google Has the Hammer To Make Businesses Use Google Plus

Convince & Convert

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. (Happy Holidays! This is #1.

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Social Media, Pretend Friends, and the Lie of False Intimacy

Convince & Convert

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. ” “Linkedin is for people you know, Facebook is for people you used to know, Twitter is for people you want to know.” (Happy Holidays. This is #5. R.I.P. Trey – Jay).