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Happy New Year 2012! Have you made your new year's resolution yet? According to recent data, the top new year's resolutions of 2012 include losing weight, getting organized and staying fit and healthy. While these are all good intentioned, as a marketer, you want more for your new year such as higher profits and greater success. The resolutions that you'd be more interested in would be to spend less, save more and learn something exciting.

Top 10 Must-Haves for Your 2012 Marketing Campaigns to bring business and customers to your company in the new year:

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As 2012 just started I am happy to share a collection of webinar replays hosted by top notch social media marketers and internet marketers in the last months. At least half of the titles contain the usual "hype" because they are entitled to show/ promote monetisation elements related to social media and internet marketing. By watching them, no matter in what online business model are you involved you will get great insights and new invaluable know-how. Enjoy them and, very important, apply the knowledge!

1. Google Places Domination: Secret Blueprint Strategy For Dominating Any Local Market Or Niche free webinar ..

The social networking service Facebook was first created for just that reason - a network of social connections between friends, family, classmates etc. Since its launch in February 2004, it has evolved into much more than just a social network between peers. As of date, Facebook has over 800 million active users with more than 900 million objects of interaction (this includes pages, groups, events and community pages). This social networking platforms has become a vital resource for businesses that want to extend their marketing campaigns virally to reach potential customers on the Internet. Facebooks has continuously made breakthroughs for many ..

If you've logged-on to Twitter today, you'll notice that it has gotten another facelift. The "new-new" Twitter for both browser and mobile app arrived in the middle of this past week, bringing a few new features and re-touching a few old ones.

Though the update isn't a game-changer, it certainly has a few tweaks here and there to simplify user interfacing and enhance the experience. Here are a few of the newest features and how to utilize them to your advantage:

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The new Twitter interface for browsers finally matches its mobile app counterpart (or vice versa). This way the functionality ..

Let me preface this entry by saying this: In no way am I trying to insult the American consumer, telling you to actually slap people in the face, or encouraging mediocrity. The purpose of this entry is to keep yourself from falling into the trap of over-thinking simple marketing messages and calls to action.

With that being said, we are getting dumb. The average human's attention span is eight seconds (Cornish, 2008); that doesn't leave too much wiggle room for jargon, gobbledigook or hyperbole in your marketing. But don't worry... it's not our faults; Americans are typically bombarded by around 3,000 ..

Change is inevitable. Nothing ever stays the same, which goes for marketing as well. Marketing goes as far back as 1450 when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, from the idea of printing with movable type. This invention eventually led to the mass-production of flyers and brochures that businesses used to market themselves to the public.

According to Robert Bartels' The History of Marketing Thought, marketing theory began in the 1900s when its basic concepts were discovered and first explored. However, marketing has come a long way since the beginning of the 20th century.

During the course of marketing development, people ..

I have been using StumbleUpon for years; it's seriously addicting. Why is it so addicting? Because every time I hit the "Stumble" button in my browser toolbar (seen below), it takes me to a random site that someone else in the StumbleUpon network likes.

So what exactly is StumbleUpon? In an older post of ours, we covered the realm of social bookmarking, a tool which allows an online community to share their likes and dislikes (hence the "I like it" and its unsavory "thumbs down" counterpart). Different from Facebook and Twitter, Stumble and its close relatives (Digg, Reddit, Delicious... among others) ..

The Mobile Marketing Market will multiply four times until 2016 and it is one of the industry with the fastest growth. Compared with e-mail marketing which have an open rate of 4%, the open rate of sms messages is 97% which is mind blowing. I presented a webinar with Jeff Mills about how to create and sell mobile apps (Android, iPhone and iPad) and sell them to small and medium businesses. The webinar is a no brainer and I kindly invite you to watch the replay and take action on the inormation revealed. You can access the webinar replay here:  ..

As the future of marketing seems to have a powerful combination of Facebook mobile and Local marketing, the mobile phones market is used more than ever in all sorts of campaigns. If you wonder how can you sell this extremely powerful channel to your clients, please join our free webinar on Monday. The presentation of the webinar is below:

Webinar hosted by Jeff Mills and Adrian Niculescu

This is going to be a LIVE webinar - not recorded! What's it all about?
This is about an explosive Billion industry that is expected to surpass
Billion by 2014.

Date: Monday, ..

Over the last 2 years a new Social Media Management and Consulting sector has manifested itself. The most significant increase in demand for Training/ Consulting and Management of one particular Social Media platform has become apparent. Its not the biggest, nor does it have the most members but let me tell you that for me in my business and millions of other business it is the single most successful lead generation tool available in terms of ROI.

I'm sure you are aware that LinkedIn is simply essential! Every B2B and many B2C businesses can use this business/social networking tool to:

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