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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). In comparison, Twitter is a piece of cake. Every week.

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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. Twitter Comparison: Ever wonder how you compare to your biggest competitor?

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4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

Consider the cost comparison of communicating the kind of messages, and the useful information that we can freely distribute now through the internet tools available versus the older media sources and their cost structures? To connect his observations to actual steps that retailers can take to PROFIT. To really do so.

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Social Media Success Metrics and Premature Calculation | Social.

Convince & Convert

For example, data that shows that in comparison to last month, 15% more people went to your product pricing page after first visiting your Facebook page is a far superior KPI to number of Facebook “likes&#. All of these are diagnostic metrics (great post about that by the outrageously smart Christoper S. It’s about behavior.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

I have found this to be a poor comparison. Cool, and a difference-maker, but not 100% transformative. Most of the chatter leading up to the iPad’s release was around how would it perform against standard computing tasks. I use my iPad instead of my iPhone, not instead of my MacBook.

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