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

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“ It’s the guide from Dale Carnegie , written nearly 75 years ago. “ It’s the guide from Dale Carnegie , written nearly 75 years ago. A few of Mr. Carnegie’s principles: You can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view.

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Arizona Diamondbacks are so bad, I’m taking my business elsewhere. I have customers all over, and I’ve decided to take advantage of that fact by instituting a dramatic change of scenery. I will, however, be on eastern time now, so you west coasters may find tweets from me waiting for you when you arise.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

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I now take the organization’s current strategic plan, CEO’s vision, mission statement and make those the metrics of a social media strategy. No new metrics, measures or key indicators – we have simply created an additional platform from which to further engage stakeholders in our work and achieve existing goals. Why ignore it?

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4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ | Blogging and Content.

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I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters. Yes, your prospective customers are confused and uncertain. How does zero clicks sound? Social media makes it possible. You can use a few methods to determine which questions to answer.

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First, people from your school that you didn’t really know showed up. Here on Convince & Convert the first-time visitor ratio hovers consistently around 65%, meaning that for more than 6 out of 10 of you, this might be the first blog post you’ve ever read from me – nothing like a little pressure!)

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Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# There’s been a bit of news about it recently.

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Is Social Conversation a Myth?

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Those that do have comments, usually have no further comment from the person who left a comment in the first place. Even in cool arenas like the #blogchat that takes place on Twitter every Sunday night, it feels more like everyone screaming a thought at once than a conversation that can be followed and engaged with.