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The End of Demographics: How Marketers Are Going Deeper With Personal Data

Marketers have built a temple that needs to be torn down. Demographics have defined the target consumer for more than half a century — poorly. Now, with emerging interest graphs from social networks, behavioral data from search outlets and lifecycle forecasting, we have much better ways of targeting potential customers. Read more

By: Jamie Beckland is a Digital and Social Media Strategist
Source: Mashable

5 Ways to Measure Your Return on Social Media

Do you know how to measure the return on your investments in social media? Every day we measure returns on our marketing investments. We create e-mail campaigns, attend trade shows, hire SEO consultants—and measure results. Social media are no different. Social media have many uses, including brand building and customer acquisition and support, all of which are of great importance. If you’re not measuring success, you won’t know whether you are wasting time and money... Read more

By Brian Goffman, CEO, Optify
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

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The DNA of a good startup

What makes a startup successful and what leads to stagnation, or worse, failure? Probably no one can definitively put their finger on it. If they could, the failure rate for new businesses wouldn't be so staggeringly high. Still, a new report out of Silicon Valley provides some good indicators. While the Startup Genome Report concentrates on Internet-based companies -and aren't most new companies these days Internet based, or at least partly? -it does provide some general lessons for startups of all kinds. Read more

By: Tony Wanless
Source: FP Entrepreneur


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