An Introduction: Bullshit 101
One Our Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Web site
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Two Astonishing Tales of Mediocrity
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Three "I Wrote This Book for Pepsi"
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Four Social Media Is Bullshit
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PART I SOCIAL MEDIA IS BULLSHIT
Five There Is Nothing New Under the Sun... or on the Web
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Six Shovels and Sharecroppers
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Seven Yeah, That's the Ticket!
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Eight And Now You Know... the Rest of the Story
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Nine The Asshole-Based Economy
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Ten There's No Such Thing as an Influencer
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Eleven Analyze This
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PART II MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE BULLSHIT
Twelve Maybe "Social Media" Doesn't Work So Well for Corporations, Either?
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Thirteen Kia and Facebook Sitting in a Tree
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Fourteen How Marketers, Cyber Hipsters, and Others Deal with Their Critics (Hint: Not Well)
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PART III HOW TO SELL BULLSHIT WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Fifteen How to Create and Spread Bullshit in Seven Easy Steps
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Sixteen And the Answer Is...
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PART IV HOW TO REALLY MIKE IT ON THE WEB
Seventeen Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Marketing
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Eighteen Recap
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Nineteen The Anti-Social Media Manifesto
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Acknowledgments 181(6)
Endnotes 187