Chris Koch

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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

We track the marketing mix (including PR) over time against trends in sales. So if you buy that leap of logic, let’s say that blogs are another channel, like PR, in a marketing mix designed to familiarize customers and prospects with our companies and us. But you’re not going to like them. Jumping through ROI hoops. startups.com).

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15 things marketers should stop doing and thinking in 2011

Chris Koch

From Facebook to email to putting telephones on employees’ desks (remember, the telephone started as a “consumer” communication technology, too), companies think that every new wave is going to lead to gajillions in lost productivity. Guess what companies, people wasted time at work long before Facebook came along. General Marketing.

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