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Why Looking in the Mirror Make an Ass Out of U and Me

Convince & Convert

Here are some recent examples I’ve encountered where companies make social media and digital marketing decisions based on personal biases and beliefs, when the truth is both available and testable: CEOs (especially B2B companies) assume that because they aren’t using social media, that their customers aren’t either.

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

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If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Companies are trying to stay top-of-mind among their prior customers, and incentivize those customers directly or indirectly to spread the word to their friends and associates. Will they click on it to visit your offer/website/landing page?

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

Convince & Convert

Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Companies often get so close to their own knitting that they cannot see the knots, and that brand of myopia is especially difficult to overcome in social media. In a real-time world, customer service and marketing are essentially the same thing.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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

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Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? Should companies treat customers differently?

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Get Your Social Media Operations Act Together | Blogging and.

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If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction. Amazing to see how many companies use Facebook as a one way communication when its real strength is to create a dialogue (engagement).