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Full story: The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #632: January 2, 2012
Content summary: We start our 7th year of FIR on January 3; FIR Book Review by Bob LeDrew of ‘ROI of Social Media’ posted, more coming; the FIR Book Club launching this month on BlogTalk Radio, first guest author is Christopher Barger; upcoming FIR Interview this week with Eric Schwartzman about AirBNB; News That Fits: FDA’s social-media ‘guidelines’ befuddle Big Pharma; Dan York reports on the decline of text messaging, the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show, and more; Ragan promo; listener…
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Full story: Ebooks: the next online battleground
Isn’t this just like the music industry was a decade ago?: New medium captures imaginations of content creators and consumers. For publishers, literally zero distribution costs. Publishers succumb to temptation to charge an arm and a leg for the product, sensing easy profits. Meanwhile, devices to consume new digital content take off like rockets among consumers, fueling demand for content. Inevitable rise of alternate methods to acquire content outside publisher control and at significantly less cost, or free. Publishers fall…
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Full story: Three things to make QR codes worthwhile
No surprises in this AdAge story about widespread use of QR codes that haven’t captured consumer imagination when it includes this statement: “Experts cite three reasons that QR codes haven’t caught on. First, people are confused about how to scan them. Two, there’s little uniformity among the apps required to read them. Last, some who have tried the technology were dissuaded by codes that offer little useful information or simply redirect the user to the company’s website. None of this…
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Full story: FIR Book Review: ROI of Social Media
The ROI of Social Media: How to Improve the Return on Your Social Marketing Investment, by Guy R. Powell, Steven W. Groves and Jerry Dimos, is the latest book to be reviewed by FIR Book Reviews editor Bob LeDrew. Comment about the book from Altimeter Group Partner Jeremiah Owyang: “We know that for 2011 and the foreseeable future, ROI is one of the top priorities for the social media strategist at many companies, ROI of Social Media is the right…











