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B2B Vendor, Customer Perspectives Differ on "Affinity"

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In summary, strong customer relationships are vital to building affinity, which the CMO Council study concludes is "the most accurate predictor of customers' purchasing intentions and decisions." And while you're at the site, consider participating in their new Marketing Outlook 2008 study.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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The intent of the lists below is to categorize the landscape and show the most prominent sites in each category. Describing it through the four C's—content, context, connections and conversation—was one approach. Another is to look at the different types of websites and tools that comprise the social media landscape.

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Big Brother Really IS Watching You

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To the long list of nefarious cretins intent on stealing your private online information -- hackers, spammers, perpetrators of fraud -- we can now add state revenue officials. They've violated certainly the spirit, if not the letter, of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. They want your money. They won't stop with tobacco users.

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Best of 2007: Articles and Blog Posts on Strategy and Branding

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I'm going to be really blunt here: I could care less about your product, service, solution or your company."

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WMC Interviews: Jonathan Treiber

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JT: We started OnCard Marketing in June of 2006 with the intent to create a pay-per-sale advertising channel for paper media. Jonathan Treiber (JT): I worked at Citigroup in New York City doing investment banking, finance and marketing. WMC: How, when and why did you get started in this business?

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Google and the Parable of the Turkey

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Sean X Cummings in The X Factor: The ad network you'd kill to buy on tries to make the case for IAC as a Google killer, but being that Google gets 15 times the search traffic of Ask , is that really realistic? Legal Action C'mon, if Google really, intentionally, harmed someone, that individual or organization could sue, right?

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ZoomInfo, Chris Abraham and Me - A Social Media Case Study

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Promotion wasn't the original intent. The type of exposure that social media provides—third-party endorsement from a source that has high credibility with its audience—is arguably far more valuable than advertising. Yet the exchange above didn't cost any of the participants anything other than a bit of time.