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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

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Knowing your industry backwards and forwards becomes one of your biggest strengths; and yes, ideally industry expertise should extend from the c-suite all the way down to the lower junior or new hire levels. Are they an industry resource? Could you do it? I look for practitioners. I look for ‘normal’ activity.

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10 Things I Thought About in 2016 that Will Still Matter in 2017

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It’s rather interesting in that you can track my thinking in the tech industry in 2016 and see how much we might be thinking about it in 2017. Search Analytics. Google analytics. Mobile analytics is so crucial. But… Instead, here are things I’ve written in my Moleskine over the past 12 months.

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Monitor your social space with 7 tools and 16 minutes of setup.

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keeping current on a competitor or industry. Tags: social media monitoring analytics marc meyer web analytics listening and monitoring. Time elapsed: 30 seconds. 2) Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Time to set up: 5 minutes.

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