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Jobs Don’t Give Us Purpose and Meaning, Helping Does

Chris Koch

Face it, few of us can say that our work has a high degree of purpose and meaning in the greater scheme of things. A quieter sense of desperation follows us to work each day. A few years ago, I was given the day off from work and walked with about two dozen colleagues into a huge warehouse that was filled with broken boxes.

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Eight reasons to monitor social media and a list of tools for doing it

Chris Koch

For example, what if your brand or offering uses a generic term like “Service Oriented Architecture”? The bad news is that gaining real insight from that data is difficult—though a horde of software developers is working on it. This helps you decide which blogs you’d like to do outreach with, for example. Assign a response.

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How old-school data capture is poisoning marketing and what to do about it

Chris Koch

Increased lead generation” was farther down the list—24% are seeing it. He argues that putting a data form in front of a prospect displays a lack of confidence in the quality of our work and at worst drives people into the arms of competitors. Another great example of the aggregation blog strategy that I was talking about.

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

Chris Koch

You may have to adopt a more split business personality (and do more work). You stand a better chance of learning more about how to accomplish your goals at work if you can engage with a community of people that face all the same challenges you face. Either we turn out to have nothing in common or they try to hit me up for work.

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Why our thought leadership is broken

Chris Koch

For many B2B companies, idea marketing is a check box on a marketing list. They think up all the different things that magazines offer to readers and then make a list: Surveys? The publishing model of ads next to content won’t work, of course. The best example of this that I can think of is IBM’s Smarter Planet.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

Here are some examples: Most C-level executives are not in social media—they’re in search. When we asked buyers how important good ideas are to the buying decision, 58% of executive-level buyers (people buying more than $500,000 worth of IT services at a pop) say that it is important or critical for making it onto the short list of providers.

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7 reasons why social media success has nothing to do with social media

Chris Koch

Here are some examples: Most C-level executives are not in social media—they’re in search. When we asked buyers how important good ideas are to the buying decision, 58% of executive-level buyers (people buying more than $500,000 worth of IT services at a pop) say that it is important or critical for making it onto the short list of providers.