{"id":3823,"date":"2009-10-23T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:43:58","slug":"friday-blog-scan-things-we-liked-from-the-week-that-was-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/friday-blog-scan-things-we-liked-from-the-week-that-was-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Brokers, you wake up and realize you are behind the social media marketing eight ball. You scramble to amass a social media marketing strategy. After all, everybody is talking about it as if it&#8217;s super easy. We know better. And while many have risen to become social media celebrities, financial success eludes them. I Media Connection published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imediaconnection.com\/content\/24637.asp\">10 ways marketers waste their time<\/a> &#8211; a worthwhile insight into the mistakes many of us made that others can learn from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There are some people just worth watching. Such as Twitter creator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Dorsey\">Jack Dorsey<\/a>. So what&#8217;s he up to? Mashable offered some <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/10\/17\/square-iphone-dorsey\/\">hints<\/a> and it has\u00a0smart phone written all over it. That should be of interest to pretty much everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s reference to the average Joe will soon seem moot as Ad Age reports on the 2010 census and finds that the average American has been replaced by a &#8220;complex multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.&#8221; How in the world do we market our services to that demographic? 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