Janet Fouts

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What’s the best social media marketing tool for scheduling your updates?

Janet Fouts

With so many different social media marketing tools to choose from, it can be difficult to find the right solution; one that helps you save time and helps you improve your results. But, not just any social media scheduling tool will do. Social media calendar. Social media analytics.

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Social Media Listening – It’s About Emotions

Janet Fouts

We’ve used a variety of research tools to understand the problem and the solution by gathering data based on our goals and the “answer” we want to hear that validates our own decisions and the existence of our product. Data from research tools like these are particularly flawed. Listen to social. Do I hate winning?

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Social Media is Not a Direct Sales Channel

Janet Fouts

In these days of social media they Google and search social networks to find out more about a prospect before they even call them. They’ll set up listening tools to hear what the crowd has to say and what their needs are too. social business Social Media in Action'

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Social Media for the Busy Sales Person

Janet Fouts

I’ve gotten quite a bit of great feedback on my last post, the 5 traits of the social sales person. The post really seems to have struck a nerve with a lot of people, even though it barely touches the surface of how sales people can use social media to get more business. Of course that’s a lot of the feedback I got.

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Do It Yourself Social Media Audit

Janet Fouts

We tend to create the social media presence for our businesses in an organic fashion, which is the natural way to grow relationships right? New tools pop up we just HAVE to try, or our network of connections asks us to join a new network in order to communicate with them. Ready to do your own social media audit?

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Social Media Efficiency for Nonprofits

Janet Fouts

I talk to nonprofits about various aspects of social media just about every day. They get the relatively manageable expense of leveraging social media to raise visibility for their nonprofit, find funders, advocates, and volunteers when compared to more traditional marketing channels. Two things are the biggest issues.

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7 steps to an effective social media plan

Janet Fouts

I get a ton of requests for a “social media plan&# and then once I start to talk to the client it turns out what they really want is a magic black box from which they can pull a big red button. When they push the button they will have instant social media success. I’m a social media coach not a magician.