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		<title>Is Social Media a Fad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is much discussion these days about social media and whether or not it will be around in a few years. Watch this short video and decide for yourself. If you believe that social media is the wave of the future, then the next questions are: * how can you leverage social media to better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Attract Customers Through Social Media Search Engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Hale Today, people who frequent Twitter and LinkedIn expect to locate market leaders in their markets. Your customers expect to see top-level content on all of your profile pages when clicking on links within the social networking search engine tools. By providing them with valuable content you will attract more and more customers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Benefits Niche Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media sites are quickly becoming powerful tools for the niche marketer. Facebook has recently announced reaching 500 million users. YouTube is now streaming two billion videos a day. Twitter is expanding at a faster and faster clip. These, and dozens of other social media sites, have turned the social media experience into a boon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Embrace Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do Starbucks, Sports Authority, and Jack in the Box all have in common? They all are successful, national brands. They also have recently embraced social media as part of their marketing campaigns. Starbucks and Sports Authority are developing campaigns using &#8220;location based&#8221; media (such as Foursquare.com), and Jack in the Box has developed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Marketing Strategies &#8211; Conduct Market Research Quickly Using Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is one of the &#8220;new kids on the block&#8221; in the Social Media or Web 2.0 world. It has some fantastic social aspects and if used correctly it can be a great tool. You can use Twitter for market research, which should be one of your core internet marketing strategies. The best thing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and Twitter as Search Engines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Spooner When you think of search engines, what names come to mind? if you are like most people, you&#8217;ll probably come up with some combination of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. If you&#8217;ve been on the Net for a while, you might also think of Alta Vista, Baidu, Ask, and dozens of others. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Search: Web Site Owners Beware</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Spooner The other day I was having lunch with one of my clients when he mentioned that he had just received an email from a large &#8220;Internet marketing company&#8221; that was pitching &#8220;local search&#8221;. The email claimed that my client would be able to secure Page 1 rankings, for any keyword, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Mobile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Spooner In 1971,  British rock group, The Who, released their seminal album, Who&#8217;s Next, which featured a song titled Going Mobile. This was a song about a guy who decided to give up his rooted existence and go on the road. 39 years later, it looks like he&#8217;s got lots of company. Recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Mistakes in Conducting Online Market Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Zachary Wilson 1. Not knowing what you don&#8217;t know Its easy to do online surveys these days. Too easy. It may be so cheap and easy that you do it without understanding the basics and end up with misleading answers that send your business down the wrong path. This is worse than never doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thenichemarketingblog.com/niche-marketing/top-10-mistakes-in-conducting-online-market-research</link>
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		<title>Surveying Your Customers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a short video that discusses the importance of surveying your customers as part of an overall market research strategy. Related articles by Zemanta 10-Point Checklist for Questionnaire Design (questionpro.com) Grapple Shows That Customer Research Can Be Fun (questionpro.com) Webinar: 10-Point Checklist for Questionnaire Design (questionpro.com) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenichemarketingblog.com%2Fniche-marketing%2Fmarket-research%2Fsurveying-your-customers'; addthis_title = 'Surveying+Your+Customers'; addthis_pub = ''; [...]]]></description>
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