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3 Ways to Make the Modern Buyer Love You

Seismic

Today’s buyers are educated, mobile, collaborative, and socially connected. Most sellers will attest that getting a response from a targeted prospect is difficult, and locking down a first meeting can be nearly impossible. 2) Keep it short, sweet, and personal. Prior to the rise of technology, B2B sellers were behind the wheel.

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IBMer: ‘Social Selling’ Is a Sales Process in Itself

Paul Gillin

So when IBM began to introduce the concept of “social selling,” it chose a test base of a few hundred salespeople and their managers to build a set of integrated systems that improved productivity and reduced administrative overhead. Much of this information was locked up in Excel spreadsheets owned by individual reps.

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How to Make Money on Instagram (Without 10K Followers)

Optinmonster

Related Content: 9 Ways to Grow Your Email List with Social Media. Making money on Instagram can seem like a challenge if you don’t have at least 10,000 followers already. But did you know that Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly users? That’s a lot of people, just waiting to find out about you, and what you have to offer!

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. All that stuff?

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo !

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It's Time for Real-Time

Convince & Convert

Plus, it’s like the personal trainer scenario. We’ve worked on this a lot, and since the book is about 1/3 written (here’s a picture of Amber when all the ideas for the outline have been wrung out of her), we need to lock it down soon. But, I’m as excited as Eddie Vedder in a flannel factory about #5.

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Is Social Conversation a Myth?

Convince & Convert

August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media. Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again.