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The Rise of #SocialSelling

Koka Sexton

Then there was 2007 when I joined Twitter and it all started to make sense. B2B Sales Motivation (@salesquote) January 14, 2013. . At the heart of sales people’s jobs is the CRM and over the past year we have even seen that the CRM is no longer enough and that it too has to become social. ” Peter F.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

In 2007, a breach of contract suit was brought against 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Companies must also uphold privacy laws. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

Otherwise, let's jump back into the TARDIS and re-live 2007 til we get it right. Now for more coffee. Hopefully most of us on this site are past the “how Twitter / Facebook / Flickr / YouTube… works,&# and have progressed to “how to make Twitter / Facebook / Flickr / YouTube…work for you&# section.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

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The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

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Facebook rolled out their iPhone app in August, 2007. And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic. Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less. MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. During that period, approximately 12 million iPhones were sold.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

RowFeeder is built for just such as circumstance, with tight Excel integration (version 2007 and newer) that provides both raw data for geeks to pull like taffy, plus canned reports that are better than most. For social media professionals inclined to get their mathematical hands dirty, it’s a winning combination.

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3 Reasons Email is the Coolest Vampire Today

Convince & Convert

October 2007. As for email, it’s been declared dead by more pundits, journalists, and entrepreneurs than I care to count. A few of my favorite reports of email’s death that were greatly exaggerated: July 2004. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Robert Scoble argued that email faced deletion at the hands of Web 2.0 March 2009.

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