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The German city of Hamelin may be in need of another Pied Piper - it seems the rats are back.

Square, PayPal, Intuit, Verifone -- the mobile payments field (and we're not talking wallets here) is seriously crowded already.

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How do vampire series "True Blood," "Twilight" and "Vampire Diaries" stack up against each other in terms of social media prowess? Like this.

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"We often fall into the trap of assuming that lead nurturing is a completely email-driven strategy. But technically, lead nurturing is defined as consistent and targeted communication to move your leads further down the funnel.

So while email has proven to be a very effective tool for this, it is not the only bridge between your company and its leads.

 

Social media has emerged as an increasingly important part of people’s lives, and the savviest marketers have found ways to integrate it into lead nurturing to build stronger relationships.

 

To help you establish stronger and more personal relationships with your leads, take a look at these ideas to help you better integrate your lead nurturing and social media marketing.

 

1) Include social follow widgets in lead nurturing emails.

2) Use social share modules in your emails.

3) Add social calls-to-action to thank-you pages.

4) All together now ... add social widgets in thank-you emails!

5) Initiate a lead nurturing workflow when a lead mentions your company on Twitter.

6) Utilize your employee's social media accounts.

7) Always respond to social inquiries.

8) Monitor for branded terms that may indicate sales readiness.

 

Each element is analyzed with more information. Read full article here: http://j.mp/JYGmip

 

Alcohol makes people more prone to committing suicide by violent methods like hanging, using a firearm or by falling to death.

If we don’t own our minds, we’re like pawns in a game where we’re not the player. We’re being played. Corporations, governments, advertisers and even religions (oops, I said it) have gone to great lengths to control your mind. Sometimes their tactics are obvious, but most of the time they are downright sneaky.

If we want to ensure that we’re living for ourselves and not serving some corporation’s agenda, we have to put on our mental armor. We have to arm our minds so we can first know when their is an assault on our sovereignty.

Here are 10 tools you can use to avoid brainwashing and retain the ownership of your mind:

1. Decrypt media spin.
The media uses many different tools and angles to sensationalize things that aren’t inherently sensational. “Experts generally agree” can mean a community college professor and “recent surveys find” can mean the polling of 10 people...

Read more: http://bit.ly/LtkcQN

Even as SpaceX continued to make history on Friday by berthing its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the state of Texas has stepped up its efforts to woo the company here.

 

State officials are developing an incentive package to encourage SpaceX to build a spaceport near Brownsville. The Hawthorne, Calif.-based company is also considering launch sites in Florida and Puerto Rico.