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APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Success = Find a Way to Remove Friction Start today by conducting a Helpfulness Audit for your company. Talk to your customer service department, or survey your customers and document the top 10 problems that customers have with your product or service. That’s what you should be doing. link] Dave Ryan Great Post.

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JULY 28, 2010

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. Have them document EVERY question they receive. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Ask your customers directly.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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MAY 26, 2010

The one that hit home for me personally was: “Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it.&#

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JUNE 11, 2010

About Damn Time Great idea to do the survey, makes it easier to see early on that people are feeling it for the water theme suzyoge 1. About Damn Time Great idea to do the survey, makes it easier to see early on that people are feeling it for the water theme suzyoge 1. Time for Real Time or 2. Time for Real Time or 2.

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JULY 22, 2010

While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully. But, I certainly understand your question, the term ‘social media’ has become such a broad one that its difficult to pin down its precise definition.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

That’s why brands go to great lengths to humanize themselves on the social Web. But, a new study by Edelman (whose digital arm features social media and ebusiness genius David Armano ) claims that bond is eroding. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.) For “Online Experts&# the illusion can stay in tact.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

With regards to the debate on Twitter vs. Facebook influence – or the influence potential of social networks altogether, I think the influence opportunity is there, but correct execution, and the ability to accept its indirect relationship to sales growth, is critical for realizing it.

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JUNE 30, 2010

When they wake up, 59% of consumers check their email account before anything else online, according to new research from ExactTarget (disclosure: client) , in a sweeping survey of 400+ Americans.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. There is no better ‘bang’ for your buck than a well thought out and properly executed crowdsourcing initiative. Yet, it seems to be a stagnant mode of gathering feedback.

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