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Twitter Me

Top ten reasons to follow me on Twitter. 
http://www.twitter.com/leeraito  

I will Twitter You if you Twitter Me. We’ll call it Twitter Karma.
I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, but you can be sure it will be entertaining to watch while I figure it out.
Bill Gates doesn’t follow me, but I follow him.
I may launch a […]

18Aug2008 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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Is Viral Marketing Dead

This is basically a retort to what Lain Thomson subjectively reported on www.Vnunet.com. No beef with Lain, but HP is off their viral marketing rocker chair!
According to HP’s Social Computing Lab research into social actions of Internet users on such services like Facebook or YouTube, Viral Marketing may not be dead, but it barely has a […]

8Aug2008 | leeraito | 2 comments | Continued
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Wheres George and Angelina Jolie

Please read to the end for the surprise Angelina Jolie twist…
So there I was, hanging with the family on short vacation, paying for those insidious Happy Meals at an undisclosed location in Grand Forks, ND. Then it happened… the counter girl handed me my change, with a smile. As I was about to stuff the bills […]

30Jul2008 | leeraito | 5 comments | Continued
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Authority Black Book

I have  just read one of the best guides on social marketing ever. It’s called the Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey.
Authority Black Book
Jack is the go to guy who consults gurus and experts the world over on link building and social marketing strategies.
I’ve watched my blog and other website traffic and rankings improve drastically […]

28Jul2008 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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Give Your Best Ideas Away

Give Your Best Idea Away Free 
At the end of this post I am going to give away one of my best ideas of the day away free to you and the world. 
‘Give Your Best Ideas Away Free!’ This is an interesting statement, and around most entrepreneurs I know it is also one that gets mixed […]

4Nov2007 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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Classmates IPO

Classmates filed with the SEC today… Initial Public Offering is on its way.
Having at one point personally spent cold hard cash for an annual membership at Classmates.com, I can see the validity in owning stock of one of the largest and arguably the ‘Grandaddy’ of social networking companies online. Classmates was one of the true […]

13Aug2007 | leeraito | 1 comment | Continued
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Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter’s Facebook Scandal

Perhaps one of Rudy’s lesser life mistakes was not getting his 17-year-old daughter Caroline on board with his presidential campaign.
Barack Obama has over 500 Facebook groups dedicated to his presidential campaign, and Rudy doesn’t even have a profile. Doing a search for Rudy on Facebook results in a few groups supporting him, but only one […]

13Aug2007 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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Social Commerce Chapter

Here is the beginnings of the entire chapter… almost done. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
Social Commerce

 
Premise & Major Points: 
 

Traditional ecommerce, dinosaurs & dodo birds
What is social commerce and where is it headed?
Are the eBay’s, Amazons & Paypal’s of the world tuned into?
How can you use the Social Ecommerce advantage in your business?
Social Commerce […]

11Aug2007 | leeraito | 2 comments | Continued
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$700 Million Happy Feet - Club Penguin Acquired by Disney

Thanks to Stephen Foley of the UK Telegraph for today posting an article about Disney’s acquisition of Club Penguin ($350 Million now and $350 Million later on certain user growth targets and metrics.) Club Penguin is a social network for kids, where parents pay membership fees for their 7-12 year old children to waddle around online […]

9Aug2007 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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Define: Social Commerce

The definition below will appear in a book that I am publishing this fall, along with co-author and co-founder of www.tuyu.com Sam Heyer. After a year of research and development, we feel it is about time for a standard definition to be used. Social Commerce will be just one amazing but all important chapter in […]

8Aug2007 | leeraito | 0 comments | Continued
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