Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? What’s the client/competitor/industry name(s)? To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). And of course thanks for including Radian6. How hard will it be to filter?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. Thanks for the Radian6 mention.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is a bit disheartening and dangerous, as social media is and can be a lot more than just your company’s presence on these sites. It’s this focus on “media&# rather than “social&# that could doom this industry eventually. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Switch PR for almost any people-facing industry and you'd get similar results, unfortunately. What do you think? link] jaybaer I agree Danny. Thanks for the kind words. Means a lot to me.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Radian6 For advanced social media listening, I often recommend my friends at Radian6 , who have – in my opinion – the most robust feature set and product development roadmap of all the widely available social listening platforms. Thanks for the Radian6 shout-out! Thanks for the Radian6 shout-out!

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues. Got some time?

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