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

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Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters. Answer Man Once you’ve identified your top six questions, answer them.

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

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Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Why is it that people who use social media platforms more often should get better service? McCann is CEO of Gist , a provider of real-time intelligence on your network of online contacts. Customer service?

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

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The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Look here for some clues [link] Do your homework – start here [link] – social CRM is not Advertising 1.0

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

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They really need to sort this process out or they are going to end up losing developers to other platforms, which make it a lot easier to get an application approved and have more transparent processes,” explains Roland Hutchinson of Geeky Gadgets. It’s difficult to get apps through, and then any updates and fixes take another 3 weeks.

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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

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His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. He’s on the road now on the UnMarketing book tour of 30+ cities. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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

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We need to start talking about Social Media as product (for those brands with high social utility) and Social Media as a method to improve execution (think Six Sigma or Toyota Production System). Those two areas are a lot more interesting than the devolution of Social Media into direct marketing.

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

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You still need to know how you are going to use these platforms. Note to Flowtown if you are reading this: If you added another level of insight as to how people are using these platforms, that would be a real benefit. To know how an audience is using a platform woudl allow us to know how to direct our clients to engage their audience.