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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 4th Edition
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, & Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 4th Edition

by David Meerman Scott
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 28m
English
Wiley
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How to Instantly Engage Your Market, Connect with Customers, and Create Products That Grow Your Business Now, Revised and Updated

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The following is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal best-seller Real-Time Marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott, from John Wiley & Sons.

Prologue

Awareness of information as it happens, in real time, can give you an enormous competitive advantage—if you know how to use it. This was a key lesson I learned working on Wall Street in the go-go 1980s.

It's 1985, and I'm on the institutional trading floor of an investment bank in lower Manhattan. It's nearly noon, time for lunch, and nothing has happened all morning. But none of the bond traders leave. They're scared they might miss something. The bank doesn't want them leaving either, so everyone gets pizza delivered to their desks.

Inhabiting a world of split-second decisions, bond traders earn big money-making trades involving hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a daily battle that involves incredibly long periods of tedium punctuated by occasional short bursts of intense action.

Fortunes are made in seconds; reputations lost in a minute.

Nothing is happening now, though. All is quiet, and boredom reigns because no significant news has broken all morning.

Some traders desperately search their real-time news feeds from Dow Jones, Reuters, and the Associated Press ...

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