Entries in marketing (3)

Getting "buy" with a little help from your friends: 3 reasons uSocial is a bad idea

A recent AdAge article reports that the online ad firm uSocial is offering to boost the number of a company’s Facebook friends for 7.6 cents per friend ($654.30), or its Facebook “fans” for a mere 8.5 cents a fan.

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Posted on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 12:48PM by Registered CommenterRoger in , , , , , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Social media marketing: art or science?

Last week, a blog post by Seth Godin struck me as particularly cogent. I put the following point to a social media group discussion board on LinkedIn.

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Posted on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 08:28AM by Registered CommenterRoger in , , , , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment

Lies, damn lies and social media statistics

According to a recent study by Knowledge Networks fewer than 5 percent of social-media users age 13-54 “regularly turn to [social media] sites for guidance on purchase decisions” in a range of common product/service categories.

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