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AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 03/07/13 -- Dachis Group, the world's leader in data-driven social marketing solutions, announced today the kickoff of the fourth annual Social Business Summit global series, taking place in Austin, Texas at the W Hotel.

Social Business Summit 2013, a global invitation-only series hosted and curated by Dachis Group and sponsored exclusively by Oracle, brings together the world's foremost brand marketers, social strategists, and social marketers to discuss the future of social marketing in real-time at day-long events around the globe.

"Our goal is for attendees to leave Social Business Summit 2013 armed with ideas to push the boundaries of data driven social marketing," said Jeffrey Dachis, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Dachis Group. "This year's focus on data-driven social marketing will provide global marketers with a platform to hone in on the power of data-driven marketing to drive the real world benefits of being a social business -- one that is connected and engaged with its customers."

Bringing together thought leaders and industry experts for a series of keynotes, speakers for the Austin Social Business Summit include Tony Hsieh from Zappos, Doug Ulman from LIVESTRONG Foundation, Estee Lauder Companies' Marisa Thalberg, John Hagel from Deloitte's Center for the Edge, Brian Solis from Altimeter Group, and more. For the current roster of global Social Business Summit 2013 speakers please visit http://socialbusinesssummit.com/speakers/.

Social Business Summit 2013 locations and dates include Shanghai on April 11th, Mumbai on May 23rd, London on June 20th, Sao Paulo on July 25th, Tokyo on August 29th, and New York on September 19th. For more information and to request an invitation, visit us at www.socialbusinesssummit.com.

About Dachis Group

Dachis Group is the global leader in data-driven social marketing solutions. Built on a proprietary big data analytics platform, Dachis Group's social performance measurement and amplification software applications, collaborative insights and reporting capabilities, and world leading data-driven social marketing solutions group help the world's largest brands engage@scale with their customers.

Every day, Dachis Group's big data social analytics platform monitors over 10 billion social behaviors and 50 million+ social signals in real-time. Dachis Group delivers powerful insights by tracking, monitoring and helping manage conversations and content across 35,000 brands, 100 million social accounts, and an aggregate audience of 7 billion followers, fans, subscribers and contributors from 233 countries across dozens of the largest social platforms.