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How Social Media Helps Marketing, PR, And Sales Become Better Friends

Marketing Insider Group

And it often extends to our colleagues in PR. The alignment problem is what drove me into here… BtoB Magazine recently reported on a Forrester survey that proves the point that this is huge challenge: only 8% of B2B companies say they have tight alignment between sales and marketing. This is really where PR can take the lead.

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6 Reasons to Unite Your Customer Service and Marketing on Social Media

Convince & Convert

According to recent Forrester research , one of the most significant hurdles to excelling in this new reality is support teams and marketing teams not being on the same page. As Forrester says, “Customers don’t care about your internal organizational silos.”. Data to Influence the Rest of the Business. Technology to the rescue!”

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Let's Face It For Facebook: It's All About The Benjamins

Biznology

Privacy is an illusion when it comes to Facebook. All of this talk about how Facebook listens and has heard the cry of the dear Facebook faithful is bunk. Honestly, it's not the first priority of most companies, so why would Facebook be any different? Bottom line is that Facebook is about money.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity

Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. It may not catch everything, but it finds a lot (via blogs, Twitter, social news sites and Facebook public pages) and presents the information through useful charts and graphs. Traditional PR + Social Media Monitoring.

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Social Media is a life sentence

Biznology

So, every morning, you need to line up your day: your daily dose of azathioprine, your daily blog post, your daily tweets, your daily pins, your daily Facebook posts, and your daily dose of comments, responses, retweets, reports, favorites, and the like. Don’t’ Freak Out. Fortune-Teller Chris Reads the Tea Leaves.

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Forrester: If You Think Social Media Marketing is Worthless, You’re Doing it Wrong

readwrite

Has your company spent seemingly countless hours tweeting on Twitter , networking on Facebook and writing the company blog? Maybe that last Facebook fan page contest saw fewer entries than you’d hoped for, or that last Twitter-only coupon had fewer redemptions than you’d expected, but perhaps that’s not all that matters.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. Also, perhaps your potential Mass Influencers aren’t already fans of yours on Facebook.