What is the best way to use facebook and fan pages for internet marketing without spamming your friends and appearing as if the only reason you are there is to market your products?

Apple Marketing Exec Leaving to Join Facebook PR Guru
One of Apple’s marketing brains is leaving the company on her own accord.

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Internet Marketing Company Vertical Measures Announces Winners of Marketing that Moves You Facebook Contest
The Vertical Measures “Marketing that Moves You” Facebook contest concludes with an awesome selection of over 100 entries and grand prize winner, Cheez-It®, for its recent “Choose the Cheese” campaign. (PRWeb March 03, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/VerticalMeasures/Marketing/prweb8176381.htm

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Anyone who uses Facebook has heard of Facebook Apps. Anyone who uses Facebook has been invited by a friend to install a Facebook app. Many of Facebook’s users have taken up that invitation. In fact, very many. So many that an entire small industry popped up that revolved around these applications. Companies were established that did nothing but create Facebook applications. Successful companies by the way.

These companies made millions and millions of dollars off of the successes of their Facebook applications and are still doing very well today. But just as fast as this micro industry was born, it’s more or less all but dead. Well dead at least for new comers.

When Facebook announced that it was going to open up its development platform so that outside developers could write applications that could be installed and used on the Facebook interface, the idea caught on extremely quickly, and if sheer numbers are any indication of success, did very, very well. Facebook application started to pop up all over the place, and like wildfire, many of the applications spread extremely quickly across the entire network.

Some of these applications ended up being installed by millions and Read the full story