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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » social
Whistleblower and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden has finally joined Twitter — and he’s already been verified by the social network, so we know this one’s for real. The first tweet sports...-
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaThe inside word is that Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer than the company’s 140-character limit. What that means, exactly, is unclear. Does that mean longer tweets? An integrated...
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaFiorina said that, if elected president, she would go into the oval office once a week. I will ask you to take out your smartphones, no flip phones allowed, they won’t do that. And I’m going to ask you to talk out your smartphone and I’m...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaMark Zuckerberg is more aware of his power than you are.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaSoon after they stormed into the center of Kunduz, a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, Taliban fighters declared victory on social networks.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media ExaminerAre your employees on LinkedIn? Do they share your company’s content with their networks? Asking your employees to promote your company content on LinkedIn is a great way to reach more prospects and increase visibility. In this...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » social
Product discussion board site Product Hunt is opening up a new daily channel for discovering podcasts tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Pacific. Product Hunt has taken off among early-adopter types and those looking for inspiration or the next... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaAt an advertising industry convention, the digital ad powerhouses Facebook and Google introduced services meant to attract even more digital ad revenue.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsMasterful work by whomever is running the Mariners' Twitter account.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsEdward Snowden, who has confounded U.S. officials since his abrupt departure from the country two years ago, has just found a new megaphone in Twitter.
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from AllFacebook
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsFacebook will stream a live sports event for the first time when the social media website simulcasts a Cleveland Cavaliers pre-season training camp practice Thursday featuring NBA superstar LeBron James. The NBA Real Training Camp show...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from AllFacebook
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from Facebook news and reviewsMany users unable to access world's largest social network on Monday for the third time in two weeks
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from TechCrunch » SocialAttention comics fans: Social reading app Wattpad is giving you a new way to connect with your favorite publishers and writers. Well, one publisher and four writers initially — the publisher is Vertigo, which has enlisted...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from AllFacebook
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaDoes the prospect of having to produce visual content make your palms sweat? Does your mouth get dry and heart begins to pound so hard that you think it’s going to break free? Well then, you’re not alone. But it doesn't have to be that...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaIn our rapidly evolving business world, it's become increasingly difficult for startups to differentiate themselves from the competition. One way to do this is to utilize influencer marketing - in this post, Brett Relander outlines how...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaThe search for the Grail has consumed many a person over the past to thousand years, both fictional and real, so much so that “searching for the Grail” has become a meme more universal than even naming every American political scandal...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from TechCrunch » Social“Last year if you asked me if I wanted to start something, I would have said ‘fuckkkkk noooooo'” 4chan founder Chris Poole laughs. But he’s changed his tune and is ready to get back in the game. Poole, aka...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsAlley NYC honored the funniest women in the Big Apple at HER, an event that asked four incredible women to dig through the "archives of their online lives and share their most ridiculous and surprising experiences in cyberspace." The...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaSocial media hoaxes are the 24-hour colds of the internet. You go to sleep with your Facebook feed healthy and hale, only to wake up and find it absolutely festooned (as the screenshot above demonstrates) with paranoid text posts...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsYes, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden joined the 140-character-limited realm of social media and began tweeting Tuesday morning, and pretty soon it was clear: Snowden's got jokes. The move to Twitter came after a recent...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News"Can you hear me now?"
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Mashable | The Social Media Guide » Social Media Feed
Sound the alarms: Facebook is about to start charging a monthly fee to keep your data private! It's all over your News Feed, so it must be true! Just kidding. The social media giant, in truth, is doing nothing of the sort. But that... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from WebProNews » Social Media
Back in April, LinkedIn announced Elevate as a way to help businesses get their employees sharing content on their behalf. It piloted with Adobe, Unilever and a few other companies in Q1, and became available on an invitation-only basis... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsIn the rumor mill that is the Internet, you really can't believe everything you hear. While Facebook has had its fair share of problems this week, charging to keep your profile private isn't one of them (yet). The post It may be having...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from NYT > TwitterThere has been concern that he would be too distracted by Square, the payments company where he is chief executive, but some investors say he is the right man for the job — both of them.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsSupport is pouring in from women across the country after a Michigan resident posted a rant on Facebook begging everyone to stop the reproductive plan questions.
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News(Reuters) - Facebook Inc restored access to its social media website for most users on Monday afternoon, after its second outage in less than a week. According to Currentlydown.com, Facebook was down for about 42 minutes between 3 p.m....
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from HootSuite Social Media Management
With its gargantuan audience, Facebook will always be one of the best places to host a social media campaign. Twitter and Instagram have also proven themselves a billion... Read More The post Why You Should Run Social Media Campaigns on... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social
Social media evolves every day. We’re constantly learning more about how to connect better, empathize more deeply and create more lasting relationships. At Buffer, we’re so grateful to be part of social media’s rapid... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » social
Twitter is working on a new format that will allow tweets of longer than 140 characters. The company is responding to many users who felt constrained by the length limit, says a new report from Re/code, citing multiple people familiar... -
Monday, September 28, 2015 from Social Media on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from SocialTimes.com
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from Ignite Social Media
Next week, on October 6th, Instagram turns 5! The social network has been putting on its big boy pants as […] The post How Brands Can Participate in Worldwide InstaMeet 12 appeared first on Ignite Social Media - The original... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from WebProNews » Social MediaWith a “Can you hear me now”, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has joined Twitter. “I used to work for the government, Now I work for the public,” reads his bio. Can you hear me now? — Edward Snowden...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaFacebook's VP of Global Marketing, Carolyn Everson, speaks at Advertising Week 2015 in New York City. (Getty Images) As consumers spend more and more time on mobile apps, Facebook increasingly competes with TV networks for advertising...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsThe move to the popular social media service makes Snowden, the man who revealed government surveillance programs, more publicly accessible.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media newsThe Royal National Institute of Blind People says the social network refused to approve their advertisement calling for more sight-loss advisers in UK hospitals
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media | Digital TrendsIn an Instagram photo of a Word document that has since garnered nearly 240,000 likes, Hadid fought back against body shamers and trolls that have deemed her "too heavy" for high fashion. The post Gigi Hadid writes an epic takedown of...
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from AllFacebook
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Monday, September 28, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaFacebook has today announced that it now has 2.5 million active advertisers, up from two million just seven months ago. In addition to the milestone, Facebook has announced four new ad features which they’re hoping will help them on...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaA new study conducted by Ipsos has examined the social media habits of Millennials ins specific detail, finding that Facebook is the most used network, while all others are well behind in terms of take up and regular use.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Soshable | Social Media Blog
One of the greatest misconceptions in American politics today is that capitalism is evil. While there are aspects of capitalism that allow for wrongdoings, greed, and abuse of power, the system itself allows for those who can spread... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesLeaf Brands, maker of the resurrected Hydrox cookie, says Amazon.com provides instant national distribution and, unlike supermarkets, no slotting fees.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Mobile Marketing Watch
Samsung Electronics is busying talking up its first Gear VR device aimed to consumers. It’s a move, Samsung says, that extends the company’s leadership into the wearables category. The latest edition of the Gear VR is... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VR Marketing BlogUse your already established LinkedIn page as a company blog The post No Time to Maintain a Business Blog? Use LinkedIn Instead appeared first on VerticalResponse Blog .
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyThe size of a marketing email campaign and the sender's industry have a significant impact on open rates, according to a recent report from Constant Contact. Read the full article at MarketingProfs
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from BrandRepublic 2014 Home RSS FeedThree will become the UK's biggest mobile operator, once parent company Hutchison Whampoa buys O2, but it's still shaking off a "cheap" image.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing WeekAmazon is expanding its online grocery service in the UK to include frozen and chilled products as it ups competition with the supermarkets in the ecommerce space.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesA former gold-medal gymnast hopes the online-only model turns around sales for his namesake sporting goods stores.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Home - SearchEngineWatchInternal linking is a key SEO tactic for publishers. In this post I’ll look at what it is, why it’s important, and provide some key tips for an effective internal linking strategy.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Shopify Blog - Company
We're giving away an entire profitable t-shirt business and more than $3,000 in prizes! This is something you don't want to miss . More -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZWhat's the best way to influence a C-level marketer? Given their creative predilections and busy schedules, strong content is a good bet. Here are five tips for doing so.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Home - SearchEngineWatchFor a thorough analysis of customer behavior, marketers should exercise consumer surveys and execute usability testing on websites. Here is why these tactics are beneficial to strategy.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Week
A major consideration for any customer-facing business is how to use technology to create meaningful and positive customer experiences. -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Latest articles from Direct Marketing NewsThe promoter of video "shareability" will dissect and analyze clients' videos in its New York office.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from News
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineAvoiding the obstacles which lead to a fractured brand experience
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from GetResponse Email Marketing Blog
Every marketing can really give your brand a boost. Done well, you can suddenly wake up one morning and find that you’ve got thousands upon thousands of new followers across all of your social networks – a gratifying reward for …... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Search Engine JournalI asked my team to identify common mistakes they see buyers making when buying a website. Here’s what they came up with. The post Avoid These 8 Common Mistakes When Buying a Website by @markdaoust appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from HubSpot Sales Blog
If your team doesn't work from a defined sales process, you've probably been told that you should get one. But what is a sales process in the first place? Here's a definition, in under 100 words. -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Latest articles from Direct Marketing NewsMarketers' digital video watching and advertising habits vary greatly worldwide—and even here in North America.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesAmazon Flex is aimed at expanding Prime Now same-day order delivery.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
When it comes to the vast sector of companies focused on buying and keeping customers, sales tech is the most interesting these days for an investor — followed by marketing and, least of all, ad tech. That’s the word from... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from News
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from MailChimp Email Marketing Blog
In the past year, MailChimp has hired 132 new employees. By the end of 2015, we’ll have more than 500 folks working here. When I started 2 years ago, I was employee number 207 and even that seemed wild to folks who’d been here since the... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from HubSpot Sales Blog
I have been studying successful people most of my life and have found the differences between them and the people who accomplish less worth noting -- and they’re not what you might expect. Successful people talk, think, and approach... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Inbound Hub | Marketing
40,296. That's the number of plugins on WordPress. With so many available, it's tough to figure out the best ones to use -- especially when you're strapped for time. Here's the good news: We've done the work for you. Below you'll find 17... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - MarketingBritish fashion label had squandered its brand when Angela Ahrendts was hired to turn things around
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from The KISSmetrics Marketing Blog
As a marketer, you’re always trying to move the needle in the right direction. Everyday you work to increase conversions and nudge visitors towards action on your website. That’s why we built Engage, where you can create... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZContent marketing goals are highly individualized. But marketers can include some basic objectives and aligned KPIs in their content strategies.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Inbound Hub | Marketing
If you were to design a subway map, what would you design for: geographical precision or visual clarity? Is it better for a map to accurately represent the geography at street level, or for it to be abstract and easy-to-understand?... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Home - SearchEngineWatchNow that Google has reduced its local listing positions, brands using a limited ad strategy deter ranking efforts. Here’s why it’s important to have a diverse marketing strategy.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyLaunching a website? Get ready for a busy few months. So much time, talent, and money goes into building a new site--yet roadblocks can easily push back your launch date. Here are some tips on how to keep your project rolling forward and...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Week
With Amazon expanding its online grocery service to include chilled and frozen food, should the supermarkets be concerned? -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyRead the full article at MarketingProfs
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from News
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from The Globe and Mail - MarketingGoogle announced a new ad format for YouTube that will allow advertisers to annotate videos that are relevant to their products
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
Digital publishing house Axel Springer, based in Berlin, Germany, is in the news today for spending $343 million to purchase an 88 percent stake in Business Insider, bringing its total ownership to 97 percent (Amazon CEO and founder Jeff... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from News
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineGone are the days of 1960s Don Draper, where marketing consisted of the traditional advertising channels of TV, radio, or magazines. Now, consumers are challenging marketers to get in front of them on a growing variety of channels that...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
EXCLUSIVE: If you listen to marketers and advertisers, the key to success these days is targeting. “The right ad to the right person at the right time” is the common mantra. Nope, says a new survey from brand expert network Experticity,... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Inbound Hub | Marketing
For those of you who have heard of retargeting and think it's something you want to try, you're in good company. According to a study by Chango and Digiday , one in five marketers now have a dedicated budget for retargeting. ... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeat
SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Citrix GoToWebinar. In today’s hyper-connected, multi-channel world, turning a lead into a loyal customer has become almost as challenging as turning lead into gold for an... -
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyMarketers today are measuring not just quantity of visits but also attention from customers. Here are some recent stats about consumer attention and suggestions for measuring it. Read the full article at MarketingProfs
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZThese five tips will help you easily transition messaging campaigns from your old platform to a new email service provider or marketing automation system.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from Online Marketing Blog
The relationships that we form with other people are an inherent part of being human. Some relationships stand the test of time while others become a distant memory. Relationships (good and bad) are not bound to our personal lives. Every...
