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Should Companies Manage Their Employees’ LinkedIn Profiles?

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LinkedIn has become an important business channel, not only for individuals to showcase their professional credentials, but also for companies seeking to promote their value proposition and to establish or manage brand awareness. These brand implications are less significant on Facebook, which is not generally viewed as a business channel.).

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How WebMD Has Changed B2B Marketing Forever

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Prospective customers now turn to their personal networks and publicly available information — via digital and social media channels—to self-diagnose their problems and to self-prescribe their own solutions. does not guarantee marketplace attention.

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An End to B2B Social Media Madness

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The past decade’s social media debacle is akin to introduction of desktop publishing in the early 1980s, when personal computers arrived in the business world. Forget Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Build Your LinkedIn Presence. LinkedIn is 3x more effective for demand generation than either Facebook or Twitter.

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The Road to Hedge Fund Transparency: Marketing Essentials and Potential Pitfalls

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Harness the market reach of LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the financial press. Most hedge funds understand this, and either provide a very basic firm profile, and / or allow its employees to post their personal profiles on LinkedIn.

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Is Your B2B Firm REALLY Marketing…Or Simply Making Tactical Soup?

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LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook must be updated regularly to stay relevant. For example, a 25-person CPA firm with an emerging practice among medium-size, privately held businesses sought to add a pharmaceutical company to its client list. Webinars and public forums entail lead qualification and follow-up with prospects.

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Hedge Fund Marketing: From Oxymoron to Best Practices

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Two-thirds of the largest hedge funds have a LinkedIn presence, but only 10 of those funds post any meaningful content on that social media site. Harness the market reach of LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the press. Very few funds have Twitter accounts.

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