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Your company may have just started down the path of using Twitter as another communication channel. (If You may use it to highlight upcoming events, press releases and product/service updates. The question that you may be grappling with is this: How should Twitter be used for customer service? If you're not there yet, that's cool but keep reading because there are some items to be aware of. Now back to our story).

Summary: Pay-as-you-go pricing would make QlikView easier to buy, but the company doesn't offer this option. prompted an inquiry from a manager who has been trying for a year to convince his company to consider the product. The closest they come is to let their partners offer QlikView-based applications as a service. To make a stronger business case for the purchase, include the value of shifting work from IT to business users, and of producing results faster. Last week’s post about QlikView 9.0 Having run into this issue many times, I easily felt his pain and we speculated

Rain T oday , a great resource for those who market and sell services, selected their Best Book s of the Decade for marketing and selling professional services. If you market or sell professional services or have a complex sale be sure to put these “ best of the decade ” on your reading list. Selling to Big Companies by Jill Konrath I was humbled to see that they picked my book, Lead Generation for the Complex Sale for their list.

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Why do insurance companies insist on spending so much of their advertising on TV ( over 60% of their total ad spend as I mentioned in the Video post below)? This is similar to how companies, like IBM and HP spent their money ten to twelve years ago to support business partners. That was until hi-tech companies starting paying attention to partner performance. Why? I’ll

A new survey produced by Schneider Associates and the Center for Business Innovation at Babson College details some very interesting findings on what makes for a successful B2B product or service launch. The free report, entitled Business-to-Business Launch Survey , profiles the ten key lessons B2B companies can use to improve their odds for launch success. The study Among the most interesting findings in the study (and keep in mind, these are the successful launches): Just 22% of B2B services companies and 37% of product vendors followed a formal, documented launch process—though another third of each group said they used "a general, undocumented repeatable process." Planning most commonly started anywhere from three to 12 months before launch—though nearly 40% of B2B product companies didn't get started until within three months of the planned launch.

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1) About 75% of Fortune 100 companies are actively involved in social media. This does not necessarily have to be in the product or service itself.   One of my favorite thought leaders and {grow} community members is John Bottom , a director at the Base One marketing agency in London.  John and I have had an on-going dialogue about the evolution of socal media and one of his recent comments caught my attention:

Depending on what shorten URL service you now use, significant keystrokes are likely yours for the picking. In 2008, Mashable did a roundup of URL shortening services and highlighted 90  providers… (yup 90!) A year later, TopRank’s Lee Odden asked his 10K+ Twitter followers for their vote on favorite shortening service  to arrive at a “top 11″ list;  another good read isa cli.gs Other Twitter Topics:      Marketing at Twitter Speed       Multiple Account Layering Strategy       Social Media: Not Just for Kids       Email The Scoopdog Team ++++++++++++++­++++++++++++++­++++++++++++++­++++++++++++ (Read time = 3-4 minutes)   So just how much are 8 keystrokes worth in a 140c world?