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4 Reasons Google Bought Wildfire

Convince & Convert

What better way to reverse engineer Facebook and take the best of it and improve/incorporate it into Google + than to buy a company (Wildfire) that has under-the-hood access and Facebook favored nation status? Google and Facebook aren’t exactly pals.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Social CRM is still confusing. Only 16% of companies say they currently have a social CRM system in place. 21% plan to implement such a system in the coming year, but another 17% “don’t know what a social CRM system is and why businesses need it.” iMedia Connection ). The Atlantic ).

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Sharing Is Caring (And Selling)

Twist Image

" The social web turns out to be an engine of word of mouth marketing unlike one we have ever seen before (no big surprise there). Scaling your social media efforts back is the best way to scale them for true growth. A social business is a sharing business. social business. social crm.

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Social Media a CRM perspective

Social Media Network Marketing

Tying this invaluable data into a CRM solution generates sales leads, ideas for product direction and strengthens a company's image and brand. Opinionated social networking users become a virtual focus group, praising or complaining about a company's offerings, and coming up with suggestions for improvements or new products or brands.

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Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your.

Convince & Convert

The Digital Ecosystem There are four key planks to successfully offering online marketing services within your existing agency: Search Marketing Email Marketing Social Media Analytics and Reporting Agencies can deliver real value to clients in each of these areas, and developing competencies is viable and achievable.

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6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and.

Convince & Convert

If you’re not willing to listen to what your customers are telling you, when they are clearly using social media (especially Twitter) as the new 1-800 number, then you have a problem with your corporate culture that social media can’t fix.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

Convince & Convert

If you are blogging for content, I see these as your key metrics: Total visits Percentage of new visits (a recent study by my clients at Compendium Blogware to be released soon shows that among 86% of corporate blogs, first-time visitors comprise 60%+ of their total traffic Visits from search engines If you are blogging for commerce, I’d opt for these (..)

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