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I was having a conversation today about the importance of social media marketing with a guy who has a very big social network.  He’s all over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. And it occurred to me that the size of your online/wireless social network and the influence you hold over it is […]

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Dan Goodman of Loladex, a recently launched local search service on Facebook, tells me that the company has launched an update today improving the UI and adding a bunch of local search filters (category, distance, etc.).  The service is focused on the Washington, DC area for now but clearly has national intentions. The new […]

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In a previous post I stated that Facebook Local could end up being a very important marketing opportunity for you business. Since then, thousands of businesses have created Facebook Pages - simple templates to create a page about your service that can be promoted via Facebook’s social network.
In principle the more networked your business’ […]

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Way back when I met Laurence Hooper who at the time was head product guy on AOL’s local search. He left AOL last year and I stumbled upon his blog one day where he was talking about a new local search service he was working on called Loladex. For whatever reason I […]

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If you want to see an example of a really hard-working blogger who writes exceptional articles on Internet marketing I suggest you check out Tamar Weinberg’s Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007. It’s an exhaustive list that should provide any Internet marketer with enough reading material for all of 2008. Here’s a […]

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I just heard a presentation from Facebook on its social ads system where you can use referrals from a customer as part of your ad to promote your business across a social network.  I am no attorney but I am pretty sure that there are several companies who have applied for patents on this concept […]

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Here’s what I am getting from the ILM presentation by Chamath Palihapitiya, VP of Product Marketing & Operations, Facebook:
Facebook = big:
55 million active users
250,000 new users per day
One year from now 200 million people
Greater than entire sum of paid and unpaid usage of newspapers in 2006

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