Guest blogger and political pundit Jenci Spradlin reveals why business should take a marketing lesson from the politicians: Maybe it’s because I’m a political junkie and spend most of my […]
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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 adventure. At the end of […]
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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 cements the social web’s role […]
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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 a true shift in the […]
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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 blogdom. They have 13 blogs, […]
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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 was introduced to GE’s social […]
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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 you can bring pens to […]
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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 customer and they bought more […]
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This is the second in a series exploring the keys to achieving business benefits in social media: Connections + Meaningful Content + Authentic Helpfulness = Business Benefits. Now, we’re going […]
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