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How New is Social Media? - Really |
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I was reviewing blogs on Marketingprofs.com yesterday and ran across a great blog entry by Toby Bloomberg. She recalled a recent AIMA meeting where Mike Murphy, Chief Revenue Office at Facebook spoke about social media. Of course, the punch line was that we all should get on the band wagon with this “new” approach. I agree we should embrace this technique but I am not sure that it is new.
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Is Your Best Salesperson the Janitor? |
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Here’s an outrageous idea: Promote your janitor to sales executive. While you’re at it, get your cooks, kitchen staff, clerks, stock people, busboys and administrative people to start making cold sales calls. Hell, make everyone a salesperson, even the marketing staff.
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Is Anybody Out There Listening? |
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The Internet is akin to the universe. We know that it is big, but we can not really fathom how big. For the most part, except for our own little sphere of influence, the universe is a mysterious place. So it is with the Internet. As with the universe, we have figured out how it was created, but we really don’t know how it all works.
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SO WHAT? |
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There was a great question on Marketingprofs.com today. A marketer was stuck trying to build a positioning statement. She wanted some help in getting her brain moving and did not want the typical statement saying they were the biggest, the best, the most experienced. I agreed and here is my answer to her:
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