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PR Lesson from a Twitter Flap

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Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person # heblowsalot. Emma Sullivan. emmakate988. It wasn’t Emma’s tweet that caused the high-profile controversy.

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

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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. Hold off on Twitter and other social media sites. LinkedIn has become an important due diligence tool for investors, intermediaries and the financial press.

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Why Your Company’s Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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For starters, they should be published on LinkedIn, both on your personal profile (as a long-form blog post like this one), and as an “Update” on your firm’s corporate LinkedIn page. Posting it on Twitter makes sense only if you (or your firm) have a reasonable number of Twitter followers.

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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+. LinkedIn is 3x more effective for demand generation than either Facebook or Twitter. It’s a brand liability.

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Why Your Law Firm Blog Doesn’t Make the Phone Ring

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For starters, they should be published on LinkedIn, both on your personal profile (as a long-form blog post), and as an “Update” on your law firm’s corporate LinkedIn page. Posting it on Twitter also makes sense if you (or your firm) have a reasonable number of Twitter followers. You don’t drive traffic to your blog.

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Should I Rekindle My Blog Love Affair…Or End It?

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I made a personal commitment to post regularly. You might be better suited for a relationship with a Twitter account. WordPress.com was the perfect matchmaker, and my Blog didn’t cost me a penny to build. I had big plans for my Blog. Topics we would cover together. Discussions I would moderate. The Marketing Guy.