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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Social gives you the opportunity to get insightful feedback on your product or service all while building a community that can further amplify your digital marketing without having to spend large advertising budgets.”. Ability to crowdsource. Enables instant communication. Social media is an always-on focus group.

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Zoho CRM: A Strong Alternative to Salesforce

Idaconcpts

I was crowdsourcing for an alternative to Salesforce for a client relationship management (CRM) platform and I stumbled into these tweets: We just migrated our CRM system from salesforce.com to zoho CRM. When talking about Zoho, it is impossible not to draw a comparison to Google Apps. Annual cost for Salesforce was $1600.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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The natural decay of business structures

The Way of the Web

The virtual agency should be a collaborative co-creation environment, and certainly the better ones seem to fit that build (Disclosure – I’m a member of both Blur Group and Guided Collective ).

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Four Metrics for Measuring Social ROI

Mindjumpers

Those interactions leave traces in the form of consumers’ data, often defined by marketers as “priceless” in terms of value. but a deeper analysis will provide marketers with more valuable business insights. It can also open doors for crowdsourcing: the next metric in our list. Crowdsourcing.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tagged as: audacity of free , authors , book , chris brogan , free , Marketing , social media { 3 trackbacks } VIP Access: The VIPerchill Business Plan August 4, 2010 at 4:12 am Could Consultants Offer Incentive-Based Pricing? Before I was in marketing, I was in tech support. At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more. The tech, the stories and applications are a dream for anyone in marketing – if any 3D Printing company wants to chat to me about the possibilities, I’d definitely be interested.

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