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PowerViews with Koka Sexton: How to Leverage Social Media

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Leveraging social media is a familiar tactic for individuals. Companies have been a bit slower than individuals in realizing the power of social media. Companies have been a bit slower than individuals in realizing the power of social media. An evangelist for social selling — and a U.S.

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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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The Top 8 Takeaways from Social Media Guru Paul Gillin’s FIR B2B

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Co-hosts Paul and Allan tee up the show by discussing several hot news items relevant to the B2B market - Here’s what they noshed on, on Episode #5: According to the latest CMO Survey, 85% of CMOs either have not shown any impact from social media spending or have only a qualitative sense of its effectiveness.

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A 3 Step Process to Make Social Media Produce Sales

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Today's guest blogger, Jeff Molander, is adjunct professor of digital marketing at Loyola University business school, a content marketing speaker and author of the forthcoming book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell. Follow customers into social spaces. Consider your current social media marketing activities.

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Good Reads for B2B Marketing - Advantages of LinkedIn in B2B Marketing

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The B2B Marketing Advantage of LinkedIn. LinkedIn's network of groups is one of the best tools for business-to-business marketers looking to contribute to conversations related to their industry and establish themselves as thought leaders, according to WSJ’s Kate Mitchell. From #SXSW: Charting the Road Ahead for B2B Marketing.

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3 Things We've Learned After Years of LinkedIn Group Spam (and what to do now)

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Jeff is the authority on making social media sell, adjunct faculty at Loyola University business school, author of Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell and a social sales training speaker. Here is a proven system to use LinkedIn for B2B sales leads and prospecting. As it turns out a lot.

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6 Things Good Lead Generation Vendors Do Right (That You May Be Doing Wrong)

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The contact’s LinkedIn profile (do you share mutual connections, have we worked with a previous employer of the prospect, does the prospect write, tweet or otherwise use social media for any common areas of interest?). The subjects of the prospect’s tweets. A general online search to see what pops up.