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Re: Live chat with Mike Elgan, tech journalist and Google+ champion at 1:00 pm ET on 3/16
Mitch Wagner   3/16/2012 12:59:42 PM
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Happy Friday everyone, and welcome to our weekly chat on The CMO Site. I'm your host, editor in chief Mitch Wagner, and our guest today is Mike Elgin, a tech journalist who's evolved as a champion of Google+ since it launched in June. 
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General Motors: Keeping the Customer at the Center
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How the carmaker uses metrics and analytics to track all the proliferating information streams it has on customers, from social media, real life, and more.
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Del Mar Races to Win at Social, Mobile Marketing
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Craig Dado, senior vice president of marketing for the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, describes how the racetrack uses social and mobile marketing to attract a younger, female demographic.
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Social Media Marketing Resolutions
1|25|12   |   4:25   |   (35) comments

Ideas for boosting B2B social media marketing in 2012.
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My Viral Tweet
1|18|12   |   2:54   |   (7) comments

What marketers can learn from a tweet that went viral.
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Trikkes & the Future of Retail Marketing
1|9|12   |   3:41   |   (3) comments

Retailers face three options in 2012: Go low on price, go high on service, or go out of business.
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IBM made five predictions for the future in its annual 5 in 5 projection, and three of them are relevant to marketing.
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Mobile Makes Retail Marketing Harder
12|19|11   |   3:01   |   (1) comment

Amazon.com's recent Price Check app heralds the beginning of a new era of creative destruction for brick-and-mortar retailers.
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Neither Snow Nor Rain
12|13|11   |   02:18   |   (5) comments

As the US Postal Service prepares to curtail mail delivery, marketers relying on first class will have to plan more carefully and, over time, move into other channels.
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Don’t Embarrass Yourself on Foursquare
12|12|11   |   04:26   |   (3) comments

Editor-in-chief Mitch Wagner trips over his own feet trying to use a Foursquare discount, in a tale with a lesson for brands.
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Community Is 'Where It's At'
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Is a massive, three-day industry event featuring A-list speakers like Bill Clinton and Malcolm Gladwell the right approach for a company seeking to generate awareness of its brand? Steve thinks that goes part of the way, but if brands want their names to stick they need to build communities.
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Twitter Upgrades Activity Streams
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Twitter improved its home page to make it more useful for brands looking to find influencers to engage with.
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Fonts Mean Brands
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Once you associate a font with your brand, you mess with it at your peril.
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IBM Study: CMOs Need More One-on-One Customer Time
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CMOs rely on aggregate data for customer preferences and are missing the opportunity to get one-on-one information through social media and other resources, according to a study of 1,734 CMOs conducted by IBM. Watch a Webinar presenting the findings, and get a copy of the report for yourself.
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Surveys show that marketers are losing the mindshare battle on the benefits of behavioral advertising – and they need to rejoin that conversation.
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'Moneyball' Marketing
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"Moneyball," the new Brad Pitt baseball movie, is one every marketer should see. It's not just about relying on metrics and analytics over gut feelings, it's also about relying on the right metrics and analytics.