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Transformation to Advocacy: Summit on Customer Engagement Summary

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'This past week I joined more than 100 customer reference and advocacy professionals at the Summit on Customer Engagement in the Bay Area. I was there to learn as well as share what I''ve experienced with our customers at Influitive. The theme of the conference was to go broader when it comes to reference management and advocacy - to get to "the other 90%".

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Customer Nurturing: It's Not Lead Nurturing so Stop Calling it That

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'You know, I really want to do X with your product. Can you get on a call to chat? This is a typical message that customer success managers or any customer facing person hears from their customers almost on a daily basis. In many of these situations there is in fact a solution. The problem is that the customer wasn’t aware of it. This can happen for many reasons.

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The Slow Death of Email and What You Can Do About it

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'Being in the world of marketing automation for as long as I was, I was a bit jaded and defended email as a marketing tool like it was the be all and end all of marketing. Since moving to another part of B2B marketing and executing different types of email campaigns I now have a completely different perspective. Email is in fact losing its touch. In this fantastic Slideshare by Gary Vanderchuck ".

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Marketing Automation And Advocate Marketing: A Sweet Combination

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'Marketing automation + advocate marketing = delicious! This post was originally posted here. 2013 has been a year of transition for me. My wife and I will be. adding a new addition to our family, which will require me to paint a. room pink and have tea parties (it’s a big transition after having two. boys), and I moved from a behemoth of a technology company to a fast. moving startup.

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Improve Your Writing Style: Solve Their Problem, Not Yours

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'I was recently inspired by this simple yet insightful post by Jonathan Greene from MarketingSherpa on how a small change in how you phrase items can mean the difference in the response you get on social media. Too many companies are too focused on what they want when they post updates on their social channels and don''t focus enough on how their message will help the people that they are.

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Rethink Your Approach to Customer Testimonials: Mobilize Your Advocates

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'This was a post I originally created for Kapost''s Content Marketeer Blog. “I’m too busy.” “I’m travelling." “It’s end of quarter.” “I never got your email.” How many excuses like these have you seen when you’re asking your customers for a testimonial? How many letters, emails, calls, texts, tweets etc… do you normally have to send before you hear back from your customers?

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The Rules of Lead Generation Defined – Book Review

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'For years I’ve been helping B2B marketers execute on their marketing strategies and at times I felt like I was working from scraps of information here and there that I have learned over the years. The issue was that there really wasn’t a guide for B2B marketers. We now have one: The New Rules of Lead Generation: Proven Strategies to Maximize Marketing ROI by David T.