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Why You’re Pissing Off Half Your Facebook Fans

Convince & Convert

New research from ExactTarget and CoTweet (clients) called “The Social Break-up&# studied why consumers turn their backs on social and email connections with brands. Within the findings is this frightening nugget: 51% of consumers expect the company to send them marketing messages after “liking&# the brand on Facebook.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. It becomes a collective effort – Crowdsourcing also makes people feel like this is a team effort that not just one person is the most important piece to the puzzle. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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Why You’re Pissing Off Half Your Facebook Fans

Convince & Convert

New research from ExactTarget and CoTweet (clients) called “The Social Break-up” studied why consumers turn their backs on social and email connections with brands. Within the findings is this frightening nugget: 51% of consumers expect the company to send them marketing messages after “liking” the brand on Facebook.

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Don’t be a Pest with “This Social Media Stuff”

Janet Fouts

Set them up with Cotweet or Hootsuite so they can post efficiently and schedule posts out in advance. Show each CXO and what their Twitter reach is, for example, and then the combined company reach. Give them the tools to work smarter. Send a daily or weekly update on progress and the impact they are having (atta boy!).

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

Convince & Convert

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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Paragon Software Group – A Social Experiment

Koka Sexton

I am still managing the direction of the companies channel sales group and helping out with product management. Being in these two key sections of Paragon Software Group lets me get a very high level view of where the company is and will be moving to in the future. The momentum rolling into 2010 is looking really good for us.

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What goes up…

Koka Sexton

It made sense, a majority of the company was based in Mass. At that point I had been in long enough not to have my feelings hurt, when you work for growing companies they have to make financial decisions that tend to lay-offs versus other measures. So this leaves me on hunt for another great company to be a part of.