Koka Sexton

MARCH 19, 2012

I ran the social selling track and held panels with customers and companies like Sprout Social , Extole , Yammer Cornerstone OnDemand and others. As I mention in the post the ROI of social media , building up to the different skill levels should be the goal of any company that wants to become a social business.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2015

Jay’s key message is that by providing help and value to customers (for free), companies will be able to cut through the incredible amount of content clutter that exists online and be top of mind when those customers are ready to buy a product or solution. Here’s how. Communicating in the Age of Information Overload. Newsletters. Town Halls.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Stay N' Alive

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

There's perhaps the most popular one - Yammer , and then there are solutions such as SalesForce Chatter , MangoSpring , Cisco Quad , Confluence , and even build-your-own solutions such as Status.net. It should if you're a user of Yammer or SalesForce Chatter or any of the other popular business collaboration suites.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 18, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. You can be the other petulant 16 year old. Jay : Perfect, perfect, yes, the death of civilization is upon us.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. The notable points are many; among the key takeaways are these: 1. Numbers can both have value and be deceptive.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Way back in 2008, microblogging and enterprise collaboration platform Yammer launched at TechCrunch50. A week later, I became member #1 of the Yammer network at my old firm, a 25,000 person consulting firm with offices all over the country. Conferences , guest blogging over at AIIM , and writing a whole bunch of blog posts.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 12, 2012

Ever since the big uptake of social media, we’ve been seeing a lot of companies start to bring these tools, platforms, behavior changes, and technologies into the enterprise. But if you talk to an executive or a decision maker at a company nowadays, you say “Hey, where are you going to find. companies today.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2012

Read on for insights from Evan and some social media news from Eric and Jim ( this week : Facebook changes users’ email addresses without permission, LinkedIn offers targeted status updates, and Microsoft acquires Yammer). Letting companies target status updates. Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link]. Find us on iTunes: [link].

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Convince & Convert

MAY 28, 2012

Somebody sending a mean tweet about your company doesn’t constitute a crisis. When the company does not know any more than the public about what’s going on. A social media crisis has a potentially material impact on the company overall. This will stem the tide of “hey company, did you know?”

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

Depending upon the level of executive sponsorship and participation – some companies will unfortunately take a long time to adopt social media and miss out on the benefits it represents today. Culture is important, but if we wait for companies to “become social&# before we introduce social tools, we’re just wasting time.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

When I started this blog back in October, I had one goal – to give me an external “home base&# from which I could become a part of the social media and government conversation. In 2009, I want to do more to illustrate the “What’s in it for me&# to our everyone at my company, especially our managers.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 29, 2008

conversation comes along. Talk, talk, talk Showing confidence and pride in your work is important, but is yammering on endlessly about yourself the most effective way to get this across? re not really sure if they are interested in your company, you just never know where your next customer might be coming from. more important?

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 29, 2008

conversation comes along. Talk, talk, talk Showing confidence and pride in your work is important, but is yammering on endlessly about yourself the most effective way to get this across? re not really sure if they are interested in your company, you just never know where your next customer might be coming from. more important?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 31, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. Jay : I want to start off the show by thanking our kind sponsors, Eric’s company Argyle Social, data driven social media management.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I’ve seen a few, in particular, B2B software companies, use Pinterest as a visual gallery for whitepapers and videos and things like. Jay : Sounds like a company we need to create on the side with today’s special guest. Jay : Well, if only they were a company that could figure that out. It actually looks really good.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

CommerceTools uses cloud-based technology to help companies streamline the distribution of products, supplies, services and content to individuals or groups by simplifying and automating order and fulfillment processes. The 5 Best Free Tools For Making Slick Infographics by Fast Company. ALOT. ** 5 STARS. Inefegy Social Radar.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 1, 2012

I learned just how effective this was when I took out a Facebook ad and targeted decision-makers at the company I currently work for, Bazaarvoice. Standing out through social is about making oneself known in an entirely different context. Be three-dimensional. I’ll be interested if you’ll be interesting,” read a poster at this year’s SXSWi.

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Proactive Report

DECEMBER 27, 2010

For three years or so savvy companies and organizations have been experimenting with how to become a social brand. As we approach the end of 2010 and head into the New Year, these savvy companies are realizing that the front end is not enough: unless you actually become a social business you can’t be a social brand.

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Socialmedia.biz

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

“Pick things from other companies that you love and put them into your own company,” she said. ” Hsieh famously said , “Zappos is a customer service company that happens to sell shoes.” ” Jason Demant of Bento discusses the company’s successful business model change.

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