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How Success is Misunderstood

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Number of leads generated? Amount of sales or deals closed? If you are a blogger and your readers are software entrepreneurs, you can’t really expect that the bag of tricks used to attract social media consultants will work the same way. If you answered “it depends&# , then you’re thinking smart.

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Why Social Media Is Not For Everyone « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

We’re told that if you have a good plan , if you follow a proven framework for rolling out your social media activities and integrate them with your sales efforts , then the ROI will be clear . That is, if you can translate all those additional site visits, downloads, and re-tweets into sales. Otherwise it’s just buzz.