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The Global Social Runway: Tailored to Digital Gold
Move over fashion editors, your coveted front row seats on the fashion runways now belong to the video-cam. Luxury fashion now considers Big Data collected “outside the tents” their holy grail.[read more]
US Dollar No Longer Accepted at Taj Mahal
More than symbolic confirmation of the US Dollar's poor health: Tourist can no longer pay with dollars at the Taj Mahal, reports the Times Online. Technorati Tags: us economy, us dollar, currency, taj mahal Share This Link to original post[read more]
Relationships are the Killer App and Marketing Rules.
For a while, I had this notion that I should self-limit my friends to 150 on Facebook drawing on Dunbar's Number that states basically you can not respectfully hold any real connection to more than 150 individuals. I've given up on this now for a few reasons. As social networking is now taking center stage on the 2.0 roadmap, I realize...[read more]
So, do you know where your social media car is going?
Now that the 'corporate blogging' and 'blogs & social media for marketing' scene in India seems to be warming up, an interesting situation seems to be emerging simultaneously - the focus, at the moment, appears to be on the shell (blog/ site/ forum/ SN) or let's call it the 'car'. A few questions to ask ourselves: How does the...[read more]
“I think that Twitter is one of the best ways to market your brand. With the character limit, businesses and marketers can get right to the point on what they are promoting, while using relevant hashtags. Using hastags is a criticical part of the social media marketing process because every Twitter user uses relevant hashtags to look for interests. And then they will be able to see relevant ...”
“Hi Barry,I have been laughing about that chart for two weeks now. You are SO right on! If you think reading it all was tough - and from your excellent summary I can tell you read more of it than even my own father did - can you imagine what writing it was like? Our most important objective behind publishing a TOME of such great length was to give people something to use - not read all at ...”