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Here are a few stats that Socialnomics.net reports:

• Over 50% of the world’s population is under 30-years-old
• 96% of them have joined a social network
• Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.
• Years to Reach 50 millions Users: Radio (38 Years), TV (13 Years), Internet (4 Years), iPod (3 Years)…
• Facebook added over 200 million users in less than a year
• If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s 3rd largest ahead of the United States and only behind China and India
• 2009 US Department of Education study revealed that on average, online students out performed those receiving face-to-face instruction
• The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old females
• Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé – some universities have stopped distributing e-mail accounts
• The #2 largest search engine in the world is YouTube
• Because of the speed in which social media enables communication, word of mouth now becomes world of mouth
• 24 of the 25 largest newspapers are experiencing record declines in circulation
• Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate
• Successful companies in social media act more like Dale Carnegie and less like Mad Men Listening first, selling second
• The ROI of social media is that your business will still exist in 5 years

Now download your free digital books on Social Networking and some of the hottest and fastest growing social networks online.

Get-Found-Online
Viral_Marketing
Twitter Book Geekpreneur
The Essential Guide to Social Media
Social Media Starter Kit-Tools
Social Media Time Management
LinkedIn For Business
Let’s Talk Social Media For Business
Getting A Foothold In Social Media
Executive Branding & Your LinkedIn Profile

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No list of marketing ebooks would be complete without including the contributions of Seth Godin whose book, The Ideavirus, is claimed to be the most downloaded eBook of all time. Here are some more of his many freely available publications.

The Idea Virus
Really Bad Powerpoint
Flipping the Funnel
Do Less
Pushing Past the Dip: How to Become the Best in the World
Marketing Mismatch: When New Won’t Work With Old

In addition to list list be sure to check out the list in my earlier post found here.

We’ve compiled links free eBooks, PDFs, and Manifestos, containing a plethora of sales, marketing, and management strategies to help you run and grow a successful business.

Ten Tests of Your Studio’s Positioning
The Design Funnel
How To Be Creative
AIGA’s “Why Design?” Booklet
A Primer in Social Media
Branding vs Advertising
The Zen of Blogging
Testify: How Remarkable Organizations are Creating Customer Evangelists.

This ebook is intended for word of mouth practitioners and participants, so they can better understand and celebrate their medium.

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Engaging with and empowering your customers as an extension of your marketing efforts isn’t new. However, in the era of Social Media, there are new tools and philosophies to more effectively listen and engage with customers and in turn, cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand, build relationships, and hopefully create evangelists along the way.

Participation is marketing.

Intention is everything.

Actions speak louder than words.

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How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)
An e-book for leaders, managers, directors – and other creative people.

Time Management for Creative People
Manage the mundane, create the extraordinary.

An Introduction to the Enneagram
Personality types for understanding and influencing people.

Creative Management for Creative Teams
Business Coaching and Creative Business.

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This book, by Bill Schley,  explains to business people, advertisers, politicians, anybody with a message today that it’s not important anymore what people hear, its what they repeat. And what they want to repeat in a Word of Mouth world are micro-scipts – idea bites that fit into a five or six word phrase. Not just a sound bite, slogan or a Tweet – but a very special kind that work the way the brain likes to work.

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The “Asking Productive Questions” series was designed by Diane Carter, sam101.com’s founder, to help you change your life by changing the questions you ask yourself. You’ll find more than 3000 questions to help you dig deeper, start conversations, improve your critical thinking, network easier, test you limits and much more.

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Author Beth Densmore is a Personal Life Coach and understand the power questions can have on your life. “Do you have a self-development toolbox? Do you have a standard set of instruments or mechanisms that you use to delve into your inner self? Just asking yourself those questions makes you think, doesn’t it? That is because questioning is the most powerful tool in your self-development toolbox. When we start on the self-development path it is usually because we have asked ourselves a question: who am I, what is it I want, why am I in this position, when can I change, where will this happen and how can I make it happen? Questions can be about us or about others and are used as identifiers. Who do I want to be? Who is standing in the way? Who will support me in this? Who can provide information?

We bring clarity to our quest by asking What. What is standing in the way of resolving this issue? What can I do about this? What is my next step?” Answering the What questions moves us another step forward on the path to change.

If you have ever been in the presence of a three year old for any length of time, you know that their favorite word is Why. The Why question brings them new information and helps them to understand the workings of a world that is new to them. It can be the same for us in the self-development process. Why do I feel this way? Why do I react like that? Why does this seem hard? Why can’t I get motivated?

To take action we need to ask the When question. When will I start? When will this happen? The answers to When questions create timetables and guidelines to follow. When putting a roast into the oven we need to know when it will be cooked. Knowing when the roast will be done moves us to have the table set and the vegetables cooked at the appropriate time. When questions motivate.

Where do we want our self-development quest to take us? If we don’t know where we want to go we will surely have a hard time getting there. And, if we don’t know where we have been how will we know where we want to go. Where questions raise our awareness. Where do I want to be one year from now…five years from now?

Once we know who, what, why, when, and where we need to know how. How can I accomplish this? How should I start? How will I feel when I am there? How questions help us to create a plan for action.

Trial lawyers always say, “Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.” It is exactly the opposite in the self-development process. Queries you don’t know the answer to are the ones that will bring you the most new information about who you are, where you are and who and where you want to be in the future. Questions can stimulate a deep thought process and can bring us to places of discovery and revelation we wouldn’t otherwise reach.

If you want to: make a change, find a solution, clarify your thinking, identify a goal or learn more about the real you, just delve into your toolbox and pull out the questioning tool. It works every time!”

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