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socialmediaisbs

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About socialmediaisbs

B.J. Mendelson is the author of the top-selling and controversial book, Social Media Is Bullshit, in stores everywhere from St. Martin's Press and other publishers worldwide.

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    Reddit's co-founders populated the content themselves. This has been mentioned in interviews with both Huffman and Ohanian and can usually be found in write-ups about "Growth hacki…

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    I know Steve Jobs is (still) idolized and discussed often among founders as a role model, but the truth is he was great at marketing and surrounded himself with the best possible p…

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    This was a pretty solid history write-up for Glass. I still remember when it debuted and I got a test pair to wear for a while as part of the pilot program. I honestly think we're …

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    I don't know how many of you have read "10% Happier", but it was a bit ahead of the curve with the current mindfulness / stoic fad that's been floating around the Internet. Toward …

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    Fortunately (?) I have more than one. The first one I wrote about in my book, "Social Media is Bullshit." So if you want to hear about that one, I'll send you (or anyone reading th…

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    I'm a big fan of Dan's book, this video is worth checking out. (Although I will say his take on things is not for everyone. It can be overly harsh if you listen to it / read it wit…

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    I think the best thing would be to run a PPC campaign when you're at work, so you can acquire emails, and then email those leads through automation (you can do this with Mailchimp)…

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    For sure. So, 1000 True Fans has been around as a theory forever. But the tl;dr version from the book is that it only works in extreme circumstances. So for example, if your audien…

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    Ok, there's a really long answer to this. I'm happy to send you (and everyone reading this) a free .pdf of my book that St. Martin's Press put out, but here is the tl;dr version 1.…

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    Take vacations, find stuff totally unrelated to what you do to get into (for me, it was professional wrestling), and take long breaks. The issue is that we all only have so much at…

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