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Google Got It Right With Buzz

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Image via CrunchBase Has Google got it right with Buzz? What do you think? From what I see the evidence just isn’t there right now. All of the noise and most of the activity is on Twitter. Maybe for kids and family Facebook has some sort of leadership, but Twitter has the mindshare, driven by [...]

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Does a Social Media Selling Strategy Make Sense

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Image via CrunchBase Can our businesses benefit from social media based sales? Can we afford the time spent on uncertain returns? Would we better off with the tried and trusted business models of the past? There’s lots of hype about the new paradigm, but very few measurable results to learn from. The problem is we [...]

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The End of Linked In Isn’t the End

Internet Enabled Business

The end of Linked In is close now, or at least that’s the message in Is Linked In Checking Out? by Brad McCarty at TNW. It’s a good article, referring back to a previous piece in the same publication about the downward spiral in usage resulting from crappy old fashioned software and the lack of [...]

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Google Will Win and Facebook Will Lose

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In the battle between Google and Facebook, Google will win and Facebook will lose. And so will Foursquare, Evernote, and anybody else you might think of. And Google will lose in the end too. I don’t know who to, because they haven’t started yet, but if I were a betting man, and I’m not, I’d [...]

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Why Social Media Is a Complete Waste of Time

Internet Enabled Business

Working with Social Media is a complete waste of time for businesses. Nobody listens, nobody’s interested, nobody cares what you think, or say or do. In fact the majority of people who tried Twitter, or Facebook or Linked In, or Stumbleupon, or You Tube, or Digg pretty soon gave up on the whole idea. There’s [...]

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A Role for Social Media in B2B

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Image via Wikipedia Does Social Media have a role in B2B relationships? I’ve been trying to find a role which makes sense, and so far a definitive answer has eluded me. What do you think? There’s no shortage of Social Media consultants extolling the potential for the genre to add value to business relationships, and [...]

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Sales Training Ideas Which Work

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Training sales people is a problem faced by all business managers and especially training sales people newly joining our business. Whatever they’ve learned in previous roles doesn’t fit with our particular way of doing things. They may be accomplished hunters, closers and farmers but they still won’t understand our special value proposition – what makes [...]

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Infotainment Sales Strategy

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Infotainment captures buyers’ attention – it’s different to all that dry benefits marketing speak. Amusing and informing at the same time. That’s the winning strategy for today’s content led selling. There was a time when the sales rep‘s first responsibility was knowing new jokes, and who to share them with. This customer would laugh like [...]

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Sales Pipeline Management Isn’t CRM

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Sales Pipeline Management isn’t the same as CRM even though most people put the two together. Actually they get confused by all the B/S they come across on the web. Unfortunately there are too many who know nothing about either publishing about both. So the world has this murky picture of contact management, sales force [...]

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