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Harness social media: relentless optimism, be brave, keep up with the kids

Socialites founder, entrepreneur Wendy Thompson, says prepare for social commerce.

Nicola Shepheard Tue, 10 Aug 2021

Wendy Thompson worked in ad agencies before founding Socialities as a social marketing specialist in 2010. Back then, social media was dismissed as a fad, but Thompson intuited its stickiness and stuck at it. A turning point came when telco Spark asked Socialites to do the social media part of

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