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6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and.

Convince & Convert

Speed kills in this environment, and you can’t succumb to endless committee meetings, planning and spreadsheets, when you can win or lose customers every minute of every day. Always Be Marketing Marketing is real-time now, and consumer opinion and search-engine results can change literally in seconds.

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Tool Tuesday: Sprout Social Update

Akamai Marketing

” Well, either my blog has some pull, or the survey they sent over the summer was put to good use because Sprout Social is growing up. I think its headed into the social CRM space, which we desperately need in the smaller-than-enterprise world. There was a long list of “Meh.” And it shows.

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

Convince & Convert

Decisions are made by ‘committee.’ ’ More often than not, that ‘committee’ is compsed of individuals who are not familiar with the organization responsible for the decision and the individuals are not aware of the consequences involved with varions decisions.