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The Danger of Automatic Feeds in Social Media

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Note: This is a guest post by Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. Participating in social media is time consuming, so it’s only natural that people look for shortcuts. Fully automatic feeds publish to a social media platform without any human intervention. Redundancy.

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Why Social Media Is Not For Everyone « The Effective Marketer

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Taking the plunge into social media may not be the right thing for you Social media is just another media Experts, personalities and false prophets are all clamoring that social media is king. That is, if you can translate all those additional site visits, downloads, and re-tweets into sales.

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What’s Wrong with Marketing Education?

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If you’re in college (or know someone who is), there are things you can do now so that you don’t flunk the next marketing job interview. Part of this is the CAN-SPAM act , which you should familiarize yourself with (interviewers will like if you show that you at least have an idea of what it’s all about).

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How to Maintain Great Content Curation

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Doing content curation poorly, though easy and quick, is often seen as spam and is likely to raise copyright and plagiarism issues for you. On the other hand, proper content curation can be a powerful tool for both building your site and driving traffic to it. Bad curation is, at best, mere spam and at worst copyright infringing.

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because you can't beat free marketing training

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The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training This is the second post finalizing the review of the Inbound Marketing University program from HubSpot. Here I talk about the final 5 classes. But it is not.

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