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

Convince & Convert

applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. Because niche solutions offer context and relevance unique to a particular vertical, these solutions (just like Ning is to facebook) may in fact be the better solution. Once they are categorized its easier to go far beyond looking at this as a metric and move toward ROI.

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Best Social Media and Digitial Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1

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Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn) and which are declining (MySpace – there’s a shock, Friendster, Ning and Hi5) as well as sharing details about the demographics of several top social networks (e.g. What’s more, nearly one-third (30 percent) of those in the survey reported a ROI of at least 150 percent!” 500 companies.