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9 Facebook Marketing Success Stories You Should Model. Are you curious what other companies are doing to achieve success with Facebook marketing? You’ve come to the right place. This article highlights nine companies (big and small) that have transformed their Facebook presence by implementing innovative Facebook marketing practices. You’re guaranteed to find inspiration for your Facebook marketing efforts here. These tactics will work for just about any business—large or small, B2B or B2C. So let’s dig in! #1: Cheese & Burger Society The Cheese & Burger Society is sponsored by the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. One savvy practice introduced here is fan gating.

If you use a contest for fan gating, make sure you abide by Facebook’s terms of service. This contest brought 1000s of new fans for The Cheese & Burger Society To increase engagement, Cheese & Burger Society created a Send to a Friend app, allowing fans to send a cheeseburger to their friends. The Send to a Friend app makes it easy to connect with a friend in a fun way Key Takeaways: 11 New York City Start-Ups To Watch in 2011 - TNW United States. In 2010, New York City took the world by surprise, unleashing a flood of start-ups and funding power, giving Silicon Valley a run for its money, literally.

Start-ups like Gilt Groupe and Etsy have already proved their potential to attract mass markets outside of the tech community. Meanwhile Meetup, Tumblr and Foursquare have created numerous connections within the tech community, spawning so many opportunities for entrepreneurs, engineers and tech enthusiasts to create and grow new business ideas that could very well turn into their own multi-million dollar enterprises. 1. Consmr Consmr is like Yelp for consumer packaged goods. 2. Need to find a great brunch spot in the East Village? While currently only in Manhattan, NearSay plans to expand into Brooklyn and Queens later this quarter and beyond NYC in late 2011. 3. Another local news start-up on the NYC scene is Neighborhoodr, which uses Tumblr to virally collect and spread hyper-local news. 4. 5. 6. vYou , YouTube 7. 8. 9. 10.

& 11. Hot subjects in the Tech industry. The 5 Most Innovative New Online Business Models in 2010. As time goes on, one of the more interesting trends that continues to happen with surprising regularity is how frequently new business model January 27, 2010 As time goes on, one of the more interesting trends that continues to happen with surprising regularity is how frequently new business models and ways of doing business are emerging through social media and online tools. In many cases, these trends are helping to reinvent how businesses sell and consumers buy all kinds of products.

For that reason alone, new sites are worth paying attention to no matter what industry your business happens to be in. The benefit of that for your small business is that watching these new models may also spark a new idea or method of selling that you can consider for your own business: Woot - This online retailer takes the unique approach of only selling a single product each day. Rohit BhargavaCEO & Founder, Influential Marketing Group I help companies to be more human. United Kingdom Hotels | Cheap UK Hotel Deals | Hotwire UK.

Blippy / Home. Woot® : One Day, One Deal™ Su Experiencia de Compras y Diversión Más Unica » DubLi.com. The Daily Groupon | Coupons, Discounts, and Deals on the Best in St John's. 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011 - TNW Europe. When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011.

Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees. Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love. Geomium LikeOurselves Storific Datasift SuperMarmite Viewdle Screach Shutl.