FriendFeed is an excellent way to use your “friends” content aggregators as filters for your own social media monitoring. FriendFeed is a web-based a personal aggregator of all of your online content. You can have nearly any social media content or profile you publish to pumped into...
One of the biggest myths in blogging is that if you write great content audiences will flock to you. Wrong. Remember the old adage, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it…” That’s precisely what happens to a great blog without some promotion or visibility.
Now you could...
RSS and Google Reader can combine to be one of the few PR monitoring tools you ever need. The Google Reader does a great job of aggregating and organizing all of your RSS monitoring feeds. However, if you really want Google Reader to be a PR tool you need to learn a couple of advanced [...]
I came across one of the classic deadly myths of sales. It was in the form of a question on LinkedIn Answers. Let’s see if you can spot it:
What do you find works the best for developing leads? I am currently researching other ways to develop leads and eventually fill up my sales...
I came across one of the classic deadly myths of sales. It was in the form of a question on LinkedIn Answers. Let’s see if you can spot it:
What do you find works the best for developing leads? I am currently researching other ways to develop leads and eventually fill up my sales...
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I can’t think of too many people I would less like to be around than the “idea guy” or the “I thought of that guy.” And two of my favorite blogs have called them out.
I have nothing to add. I’ll just point you to them:
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I just finished up the latest book in the Jason Bourne series, Bourne Deception. I love the action and intrigue of a good spy thriller. It pulls me back to my early days in the intelligence community…
Okay, maybe not quite the same–I never had...
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Monitoring your brand online and in social media has become a no brainer. However, if you are neglecting your niche keywords and competitor brands you are letting opportunity fall out of your sales funnel.
Here are a few examples of a great Michigan...
Social media monitoring should be a top priority on any corporate strategic agenda. This medium of communicating and marketing is surging at an unprecedented rate. What’s more it can be overwhelming if you simply jump in without any filters.
This begs the frustrating question most...
I’m continually amazed at how many B2B sales folks are not yet making social media a serious part of their sales process. Half of those people are apprehensive about trying something new and the other half believe it will be a big waste of time.
My hope is that following these 10 simple...
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