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Social Media Marketing in 61 Words by @dmscott

  • You can buy attention (advertising)
  • You can beg for attention from the media (PR)
  • You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales)
  • Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free: a YouTube video, a blog, a research report, photos, a Twitter stream, an ebook, a Facebook page.

David Meerman Scott keynote

Twitter has always felt like a casual conversation among friends to me. It reminds me of the old days on IRC chat where people sat around and shot the breeze for hours. But I can’t imagine sitting around with a group of guys on a Saturday afternoon when suddenly one guy stands up and yells, “23-inch Dell Monitor on SALE NOW! Use Referral Code: 12301”.

Can you imagine this same person shouting out ads every five sentences? How about only once every time you got together?

6 Innovative Ways Businesses are Capitalizing on Foursquare 

Very good promotional ideas to leverage location based social networking.

Now if Foursquare will just open its network to the rest of us.

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