Direct Marketing Observations

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Selling Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

The one sales rep grabbed the phone and put me on the phone with the engineer. The engineer could not answer the question either and asked if they could email me the answer. Because my dear readers, we are in the phase of education to more companies than we are in the phase of adoption. Why do I say this?

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Protecting Children from Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

And… the majority of these activities have incredible SEO ( search engine optimization) ramifications. Assuming participation in social networks is going to happen and or is happening, then you need to take an active vital role in education, in creating policies, and creating ground rules for participation. You the parent.

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Eventually we’ll all be good at social media and then what?

Direct Marketing Observations

In each case there was always that big learning curve and once everyone overcame that, then all of a sudden you had people and companies left and right who decided to wrap whole business solutions around disciplines such as internet marketing, email marketing, search engine marketing and content marketing.

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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

3) On-going social media education ! 12) Set up real time keyword /product/ industry monitoring engines and show them the results. Show the benefits of why you need to join in. 2) Demonstrate for corporate executives the increase in visibility from search rankings that result from searchable presence on social media sites.