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Awesome Social Media Workshops from Andy Beal & Marketing Superstars

How would you like to indulge in two days of hands-on, advanced social media marketing training? Training from experts such as Jason Falls,  John Jantsch,  Giovanni Gallucci, yours truly, and a bunch of other top-notch marketers? What if I said you could get that training for just $429? When was the last time you went to a 2-day event for less than $500? What if I made that price even sweeter by providing you with the discount code “andybeal” which drops the price down to a crazy low $304!!! Up for it? OK, then head over to register for the Social Media Optimization Summit taking place in Dallas, TX on March 23 & 24. There are dozens of workshops to choose from and I’ll be teaching you how set up your own social media monitoring alerting system –and I may even throw in some Trackur freebies too. See you there! REGISTER HERE

Countdown: 203 Days Left Until Christmas Twitter Reaches 20 Billion Tweets

What will come first, Christmas or Twitter’s 20 billionth tweet? Well, according to the GigaTweet counter , you can celebrate Twitter hitting the 20 billion mark, a few months before you can put up your Christmas tree. Twitter has already passed the 10 billion tweet count and is rapidly chasing towards the big two-oh. Of course, stuff like this only gets reported because a) it’s still novel, and b) it’s a light news day. ( via )

Study: 43% of Email Marketers Want a Slice of the Social Media Pie

According to a study by EmailStatCenter.com (sponsored by ExactTarget and BrightWave), the promise of social media marketing riches is too much of a temptation for email marketers–they want in on the action. According to the study, 43% of email marketing firms are already offering social media marketing as part of their service line-up: Not sure what to make of the 66% that said they provide “Strategy & Consulting” alongside email marketing. I would have thought that ALL marketing firms offered strategy and consulting, otherwise you’re just some kind of email spammer. The study helps make sense of why companies such as ExactTarget are buying up social media firms such as CoTweet. I never saw the overlap between email and social media, but apparently they do, and that’s all that matters, right? I wonder how they plan to monitor all of this social media activity?