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Using social networks to create ‘a market of one’

By Kelly Dempski of Accenture Technology Labs

Published: September 17 2009 18:16 | Last updated: September 17 2009 18:16

If social networkshelp influence elections and popular opinion how do businesses tap into what appears to be this advertiser’s Nirvana?

Unfortunately, the reasons that make social networks so attractive to marketers are also why most social networking advertising campaigns have not been overly successful: people use these services to socialise.

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