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My bike ride started me thinking about the importance of building social media momentum. Here’s what I mean. My wife and I recently completed a lengthy mountain biking
While President Obama’s use of the social web to connect with voters and raise funds has been well-documented, it may be Scott Brown’s impossible 2010 senatorial win that
Place, product, price and promotion. We all learned these basic marketing principles in college and they still stand up today. But the social web is
Zappos* is a successful company with a well-publicized, aggressive employee use of social media. In fact, it may be the most famous social media model in all of
The GE Social Media Team: Gary Sheffer, Jen Walsh, Sean Gannon, Lisa Lanspery, Mike Eisenreich, Megan Parker and Vivek Kemp A few weeks ago I
A few months back I did a fun interview with Susan Wassel, the social media voice for Sharpie pens. Susan made me a believer. If
At one point in my career, I had one of the largest (if not THE largest!) sales positions in the world. I had just one
This is the second in a series exploring the keys to achieving business benefits in social media: Connections + Meaningful Content + Authentic Helpfulness =
Starbucks. Dell. Mark Schaefer. Yes, I am now up there with the mega-brand big dogs, at least momentarily, in an article in Forbes recently. Not
I know social media is about “relationships.” I get it … I really do. But if you are responsible for a social media initiative for
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