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6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and.

Convince & Convert

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. I developed 6 new requirements that all social media savvy, marketing-centric organizations need to have. Who’s listening? And is that appropriate?

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Tool Tuesday: Sprout Social Update

Akamai Marketing

” Well, either my blog has some pull, or the survey they sent over the summer was put to good use because Sprout Social is growing up. I think its headed into the social CRM space, which we desperately need in the smaller-than-enterprise world. There was a long list of “Meh.” And it shows.

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

Convince & Convert

Decisions are made by ‘committee.’ ’ More often than not, that ‘committee’ is compsed of individuals who are not familiar with the organization responsible for the decision and the individuals are not aware of the consequences involved with varions decisions. How can I help you?