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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty.

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Top 56 B2B Marketing Posts October 2010

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To succeed in social media, set aside your marketing plan , October 31, 2010 Forget your marketing PLAN? Focus Group (5). Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. Have I gone MAD?? So he did something about it. Facebook (128). Event (105). Marketo (37).

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Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble | social crm.

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link] (via @jaybaer @jeffhurt) Morgan Stewart I was the primary researcher at ExactTarget and sat in on all the focus groups. In interviews and focus groups we were talking about “brands&# and when they gave examples, it was clear they were thinking about big B2C brands. link] [link] Hiroto Izumi ????????

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