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The Effectiveness of Facebook Advertising or Fan/Like Pages a Study of Young Adults over the Ages of 13
The Effectiveness of Facebook Advertising or Fan/Like Pages
A study of Young Adults over the ages of 13

By
Joe De Wet (197031803)
Laura Leigh Poonsamy (208159517)
Theodore Zeederberg (2080230416)

Assignment 1 submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the diploma

National Diploma: Marketing

in the Faculty of Business

at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Lecturer: Mr RG Duffett

Cape Town
9 May 2011

DECLARATION

I, Joe De Wet, declare that the contents of this assignment represent my own unaided work, and that the assignment has not previously been submitted for academic examination towards any qualification. Furthermore, it represents my own opinions and not necessarily those of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

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I, Laura Leigh Poonsamy, declare that the contents of this assignment represent my own unaided work, and that the assignment has not previously been submitted for academic examination towards any qualification. Furthermore, it represents my own opinions and not necessarily those of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

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I, Theodore Zeederberg, declare that the contents of this assignment represent my own unaided work, and that the assignment has not previously been submitted for academic examination towards any qualification. Furthermore, it represents my own opinions and not necessarily those of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

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ABSTRACT

We live in a world that has been evolving since its inception, probably even before that. With change being the only constant in society, Communication has become the key to success.
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