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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. population. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer. Fifty percent!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

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JUNE 2, 2010

And that’s both the solution and the problem. This is an excellent marketing and promotional step that will ensure their brand is recognized world wide. More enterprising social media users (“Socialists?&# ) have likely already been taking pictures with their cell phones and posting them on their own.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Facebook Insights. Google Analytics. Maybe so, maybe not.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? What is Social Media’s Next Big Thing? Enterprise 2.0.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

I don’t want to poach or poorly paraphrase anyone else’s content, so here’s what I wrote in Letters to the C-Suite: To The Executive Team: I realize everyone is telling you social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Isn’t our Facebook page just a post-modern email newsletter?

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MARCH 16, 2010

Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter. So as expected, Facebook just added Twitter-style features and functions to its service , to evaporate Twitter’s competitive angle. A new Pew Research study shows only 8% of U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. it’s difficult to get into much detail. (A

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JUNE 23, 2010

Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department. Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. What is the next generation of crowdsourcing?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Can you imagine an “Illinois Marketing for Dummies&# book? Wrong approach.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. Twitter is so 2008 The buzz about location came largely at the expense of Twitter, as most of the social media brigade updated their Twitter status infrequently, if at all. The kismet.

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