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Social media raises the bar for customer intimacy

Chris Koch

Product leadership. These are companies that rely heavily on innovative, exciting, status-conferring new products to hold customer interest. The good news is that we may look back on social media as the movement that made high levels of customer intimacy as achievable as product quality seems today. Intimacy through content.

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Is ghost writing in social media right or wrong?

Chris Koch

As I say in the SCN post and as I’ve mentioned here plenty of times, I think we are kidding ourselves if we think that many of our best SMEs are going to take the time to blog. One of the best aspects of social media is the opportunity to put ideas to the community and gather feedback. Others call it ghost writing.

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Sports Analogies Suck, Right?

Chris Koch

For example, what customer do you know of that would be willing to sit for hours in sub-zero temperatures just to get your product (okay, maybe Apple fans do that somewhere, but other than that, it works. What’s the best way to deliver a more engaging experience to season ticket-holders and casual fans alike?

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Apple’s marketing arrogance

Chris Koch

Apple has violated both of those rules this week, and I’m sure they could care less—Apple long ago concluded that their products are so much better that customers will overlook the arrogance with which they treat customers. Apple creates great products. I can’t. Can you?

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How to measure influence in social media marketing

Chris Koch

The best of these is still Technorati, because blogs are, in and of themselves, the most influential channel within social media. For example, many ITSMA members are companies that began by selling B2B products but are now trying to become known as full-service solution companies. These fall into two categories: The number generators.

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Why bother with thought leadership? Five questions and answers.

Chris Koch

This depends on whether the products and services themselves are knowledge intensive. In industries where the product or service is very information intensive, such as research, management consulting, technology, aerospace, etc., Especially in B2B, products and services are becoming more complex and sales cycles are getting longer.

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

MakerBot , a manufacturer of desktop 3D printers priced at the level of a decent laptop, is the best known of companies producing a product that has already been raised to PC-level stature in terms of its potential impact on business and society.