Chris Koch

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

Chris Koch

This is the number of articles or blog posts that mention the product or service measured against the trend 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. Especially on blogs.

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Three steps for B2B marketers to build a personal social media presence

Chris Koch

I mostly use it as a platform for determining the blogs I like best and then follow them through good old-fashioned e-mail (the tool that most bloggers use to do this is Feedburner ). SharpReader is more a reference database for the blogs that I like rather than a day-to-day tool. Pick blogs to follow. Junta42 Blog.

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Social media’s Hallmark Moment: the Twitter Auto DM

Chris Koch

If you miss my tweets, you can catch a summary in my monthly newsletter here.” Here are links to my book, my blog, my company.” Okay, so you want to automate the fact that you can’t be bothered learning anything about the people who follow you? “If So good you need to send them twice. Looking forward to chatting.

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15 things marketers should stop doing and thinking in 2011

Chris Koch

Unless you are selling products, and inexpensive ones at that, it is impossible to track a tweet or a blog post directly to a sale. All year, marketers have been telling me that they are having a harder and harder time getting noticed in traditional channels like white papers, email newsletters, and events. Social media has ROI.

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Six factors driving B2B social media marketing adoption

Chris Koch

For example, a Forbes/Google survey of 354 top executives found that more than 50% of executives under 40 maintain a work-related blog, Twitter their thoughts, and visit online social networks frequently. However, age trumps rank in terms of social media usage. And the recession is speeding up the shift to online.