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Social media ROI sucks! (Or, you can prove anything if you send out a survey)

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Social media marketing is now precariously ensconced as a more-or-less mainstream marketing channel. Companies try to dutifully engage with customers and prospects on all the main social channels, plus as many of the secondary ones as possible. After all, content is the “fuel” that drives the social media engine, right?

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How to Make Social Sell: From Thought Leader to Thought Provoker

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Jeff Molander is a professional speaker, author of Off the Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and adjunct faculty at Loyola University Business School. Why is it so difficult to generate actual leads and sales using social media in the B2B world? These Brands are Making Social Media Sell. But not by chance.

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Is It Really B2B, Or Something Different All Together?

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Jason Falls is an author, speaker and CEO of Social Media Explorer. He is also co-author of the book No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide To Social Media Marketing , available on Amazon and in bookstores everywhere. Manufacturing firms don't watch YouTube! Logistics companies aren't on Twitter.

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4 Trends Shaping B2B Marketing in 2011

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Social media = Lots of room for improvement. It’s true that B2B marketers are embracing social tools as a way to both connect with customers and grow their businesses. Most businesses have some kind of social presence or plan to have one: Most have attempted a blog or Facebook page, or have at least peeked at Twitter.

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PowerViews with Paul Gillin: Social Media – Pick Your Spots & Focus

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Social Media: What's Hot? Click to start video at this point — Paul notes social media going mainstream is hot. Social media is becoming an integral part of the marketing mix for companies looking to grow their presence with both business and consumer clientele. The Magnification Power of Social Media Comes From Sharing.

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Why Engagement Will Not Generate Leads (and what to do about it)

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Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, a social selling speaker and author of, Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell. In the end, businesses who DO create leads and sales using social selling know something the rest of us don’t.

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Is Anyone Leading Lead Management?

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Social Media Department – blog, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, iTunes, YouTube and Pinterest, to name just a few. Two major departments compete on rules establishment and daily management (sales and marketing). Marketing Operations Department. Website Management. Public Relations. Investor Relations.