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

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Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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Social media personalization: The opportunity and risks to consider

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What is social media personalization and why are marketers prioritizing it? Social media personalization is when brands analyze customer behavior across multiple touchpoints, and deliver highly tailored social content or messages that are appropriate for a specific stage in each buyer’s journey.

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Social Media Horror Story With A Happy Ending

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Today’s article is a guest post by Dennis Yu, an international speaker and author on search engine marketing and Facebook marketing. We know retailers that monitor complaints for their competitors, then offering those customers immediate help. This is a major issue for retailers who have thousands of locations. .

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Sharing Is Caring (And Selling)

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On March 30th, 2012, Marketing Charts published a news item titled, Social Shares Drive 1 in 4 Online Shoppers to Purchase. Once at the retailer's site, 53% purchased the product they learned about through their friend's comment. Scaling your social media efforts back is the best way to scale them for true growth.

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Connection: Social Media’s Special Gift

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When the Cluetrain Manifesto was published in 1999, it signaled a paradigm shift: markets are conversations. I miss the days when social media was more personalized. What’s your social media policy? What are your goals of social media? Social media is about real engagement and truly connecting with people.

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

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For example, the markers for a jump to cloud computing for a declining retail company are quite different than the markers for a growing startup to embrace a business intelligence application. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin.

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

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And if possible, I’d recommend having employees closest to the product (designers, engineers, product marketing, customer service) be the stars of the show, not executives or marketers. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Give this a try will you?

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