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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record.

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AUGUST 29, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. But I’ve heard the audience demographic of the Facebook is now moving from being focused on college kids to becoming a place for adults.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. He’s on the road now on the UnMarketing book tour of 30+ cities. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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MAY 12, 2010

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. All the while you’re feeling like you’re playing catch-up, that something awesome may have happened, and you missed it because you weren’t online. Note that NutshellMail is funded in part by FBFund, Facebook’s venture capital arm.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Ask your customers directly.

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MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. For example, an organization that would have spent $5M over ten years on a traditional ERP or CRM application (bought from an on-premise vendor) may spend $1M on a SaaS alternative such as Workday or salesforce.com.

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JUNE 29, 2010

More people sharing the stuff that they make (3 billion photos per month uploaded to Facebook) 3. More people sharing the stuff that they make (3 billion photos per month uploaded to Facebook)&# Jay- How does this play into our supposed need for curation? More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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JULY 27, 2010

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AUGUST 24, 2010

“ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here. Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. “ Your Content Stinks!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Today, most contact preferences center around phone, email (HTML or text), and direct, postal mail.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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MAY 13, 2010

Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Linkedin is for people you know. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I

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JULY 20, 2010

It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging. Now, the rules are changing, and noteworthy, quality content is the future of online marketing success.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Either way, it would make me double-check how I have the privacy settings set for photos on my Facebook page. The last thing I need is a dressing room photo of me modeling Diesel brand fat pants hitting the public News Feed on Facebook. But the default view will be the opinions of your Facebook friends.

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JUNE 17, 2010

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JULY 26, 2010

The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Anonymous This is really interesting, because not only is Twitter its own culture, yet it is changing the marketing culture. People use Twitter and FB and other social media sites to provide word of mouth advertising whether it be negative or positive, it is some time of feedback of a product.

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MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally. Put it on YouTube of course.

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MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. And once the system was set up and the business rules determined, the company spends almost no time managing the program.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. People coming from Google don’t know who you are yet, so you can’t treat them like a Facebook audience that’s already drinking your Kool-aid.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Future Plans for Facebook For now, Facebook doesn’t allow outside access to Facebook fan page metrics, so that’s the one large hole in the Swix data set. Mr. Lake believe that access will be granted however, allowing his company to deliver a whole suite of new Facebook data points into the Swix system.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. Let’s also assume that you have a Facebook fan page.

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JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Did you catch that part about being transferable and sub-licensable? Will they pursue you?

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JULY 5, 2010

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MARCH 10, 2010

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JUNE 24, 2010

You’re thinking that I’m… [link] #marketing [link] Santi Chacon 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook. Our method at Motorola was to take the bigwhigs out to the Signature Room and wine and dine them. Relationships.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

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MARCH 4, 2010

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] kelvin lee Online Community With Purpose and a Plan [link] [link] Santi Chacon Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads.

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JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” The Facebook page was a failure because they were not engaging their audience, they were just collecting names. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? That would be a interesting exercise, wouldn’t it?

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MAY 26, 2010

The only thing that’s really certain, is that eventually the online tools will change. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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APRIL 1, 2010

So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. The Timberwolves on Facebook page has no mention of a manifesto, not even a link on the Info tab. They need to snap up that Facebook name pronto. Your Web site.

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