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How to Improve Your B2B Sales Workflow with Social Media
In my last post I defined social intelligence as a new form of intelligence that delivers a much broader view of the prospect. I discussed how in-context access to this intelligence will...
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Social Selling Throughout The B2B Sales Cycle
The impact of social media on brand monitoring, customer service and marketing is a hot topic these days, but there has been less discussion about one of the biggest areas of social media impact: B2B...
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How to Use B2B Social Media for More Efficient Lead Qualification
If you’ve read any of my other pieces on Social Media B2B, you’ll know that I live by the Listen, Connect, Engage model. It’s simple and highly effective for leveraging social intelligence to improve...
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Salesforce.com acquires Radian6: Big Data Analytics is the Future in the...
Last week Microsoft asked me to be on the keynote panel for their Canadian launch of Dynamics CRM 2011 (#CRM2011TO). Marcel LeBrun, the CEO of Radian6, had a last-minute conflict for this event, which...
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Why Sales Is Still Missing From Social CRM
We’ve all heard the stories about the big deals closed on the golf course or at the steakhouse, but these tales are starting to belong more in episodes of Mad Men than in today’s business environment....
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B2Bs need to increase their social intelligence
Social technologies are breeding a new type of savvy marketing pro, tasked with reaching a more fragmented audience of customers, prospects and brand influencers than ever before. While B2C marketers...
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My Thoughts on All About The Cloud
For those who missed it, a brief recap of the cloud marketing panel this morning at All About the Cloud – I joined Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez, Joe Payne, CEO of Eloqua, and Appirio CMO Narinder Singh,...
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Data.com: Welcome, but not Enough
This morning Salesforce.com announced the much-awaited Data.com brand. This announcement signals the recognition by one of the world’s most important workflow automation (SFA, CRM) vendors that, by...
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An Open Letter to Hoover’s Employees
Many of you joined Hoovers with a mission to change the world, and you did just that in the late 90’s. However, in recent years your parent company has not fostered that original spirit. Consequently,...
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We all have a little Steve Jobs inside us
I don’t think I can add anything to what has been said about Steve Jobs’ life. It is clear that he was a unique genius, and that his passing leaves a void in our world. He was a man of ideals, and...
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