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Five Ways B2B Marketers Can Get the Most from Facebook

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A lot of B2B marketers have chosen not to get on board the Facebook train for fear that Facebook's freewheeling culture clashes with their serious business. There’s a lot of gold to mine on Facebook, however, if you know your objectives and how the community works. LinkedIn is nine-to-five and Facebook is after-hours.

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - More CMO/CIO Alliance

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LinkedIn Adds Facebook-Style Mentions In Status Updates And Home-Page Comments. LinkedIn is adding a Facebook-like feature that allows users to link to connections or companies in the status-update field. When published, that connection or company would be notified they have been mentioned.

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A 3 Step Process to Make Social Media Produce Sales

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The answer to selling more with social media is found: Starting conversations that are worth having. And conversing in ways that generate questions that you have answers to—and connect to your products/services. Blogging, engaging, listening to customers on Facebook or Twitter. Step 2: Align marketing to produce behavior.

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Are Your Sales Suffering Because You've Picked The Worst Times To Contact Prospects?

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In the digital age, more and more communication takes place via email and text messaging, but a person-to-person conversation is still the most engaging way to contact a prospect and convert him into a customer. Note, however, that once the conversation begins, you only have about 20 seconds to launch a great first impression.

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PowerViews with Ardath Albee: Sales Reps Need to Get ‘Content CliffsNotes’

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Social selling is all about nurturing, because every time you come into contact with a prospect—via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or some other social media — you have to nurture the relationship. Below are some salient takeouts from our conversation, which can be viewed in its entirety here. It doesn’t develop naturally; it takes work.

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Tweet Less and Talk More

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Our job is all about building relationships—which is done through meaningful conversations , not emails and status updates. Follow Joanne on Google+ or Twitter @ReferralSales , or connect on LinkedIn and Facebook.' The digital world, as great as it is, threatens our personal connections. We’re losing the ability to talk to people.

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PowerViews with Koka Sexton: How to Leverage Social Media

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Then go on Facebook and let your friends and family know. Twitter is more of a running conversation, where people relax and divulge more personal information. Leveraging social media is a familiar tactic for individuals. Have you written a new blog post? Have you reviewed a new book for The New York Times ?