Month: August 2010

MySpace Throws In The Towel, Connects To Facebook

From Mediapost.com by Gavin O’Malley Waving the proverbial white flag, MySpace on Monday said its members can now synchronize posts, and other activity, with their Facebook profiles. To some, the move represents a last-ditch effort by the once reigning social network to live on by riding the coattails of Facebook’s unprecedented…

Email Newsletters: a Best Practice That Needs to Die

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | Email Marketing, lead nurturing | Jep Castelein DemandBase has just announced a webinar series called B2B Marketing Best Practices that Need to Die (I will present one of the sessions). Today, I’m working on my presentation for Monday’s lead nurturing webinar 7 steps to finding untapped revenue in your marketing database, where…

Email Newsletters: a best practice that needs to die

I like this blog post from lead sloth. It reminds me of the days I worked at Fairfax Media and News Corporation, sending out millions of email newsletters every month. I can say from experience that this article hits the mark. I saw open rates and click rates erode and…

Do friends influence purchases in a Social Network?

Harvard Business School Case Study (Working Paper) February 26, 2009 ——- Here is an interesting find on twitter (rt@agotthelt), which looks to be a working paper aimed for publishing as one of the those famous Harvard Business School Case Studies. This is an academic paper with a scientific approach and…

Making it Simple – The Components of a Social CRM Program

Article from Focus.com 23-August-2010 Author: Paul Greenberg Introduction The discussion around Social CRM continues.  According to a large amount of anecdotal evidence I hear, a significant number of senior executives, when queried about it, ask what it is, when the idea is brought up.  Meaning, despite all the buzz and…

Chart: Monthly voice and text usage by age

How long until schools are organizing D.A.R.E.-like anti-addiction programs to get kids off texting? Kids Text Every 10 Minutes When They’re Awake American kids under 18 send and receive roughly 2,800 texts per month, according to Nielsen, or about 93 per day. Assuming 7 hours of sleep per night, on average, that’s about…

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