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

Convince & Convert

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers. Good stuff.

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5 People Focused Social and Data Tools You Should Be Using

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you don’t know what Rapportive is, I’ll tell you here: Rapportive was (past tense) an excellent plugin that worked with Gmail and Chrome or Firefox to learn all social media associations with an email address. It was an internal social CRM of sorts. I want to know people, not just names and avatars.

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

Convince & Convert

Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside. That would be a fun discussion, right? And thus, a relationship starts to grow. And like all relationships it has to be nurtured and such. In the case of today's internet. Another ex I can think of is online gaming.

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

Convince & Convert

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

Convince & Convert

With regards to the debate on Twitter vs. Facebook influence – or the influence potential of social networks altogether, I think the influence opportunity is there, but correct execution, and the ability to accept its indirect relationship to sales growth, is critical for realizing it. Well said, and I completely agree.

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

Convince & Convert

Succeeding on the social Web requires daily participation. Whether it’s brand reputation management, PR and influencer outreach, customer service and social CRM, interacting with fans on a brand community, or just creating content that builds thought leadership – it all takes time. But just for a day.