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Please sir... may I have more targeted advertising

September 5, 2009 by seth levine with 123 views

A few days ago I received a note from Plaxo in my inbox that said in part: As you probably know, Plaxo was acquired last year by Comcast and is now a business unit of Comcast Interactive Media (CIM). Not surprisingly, given the above focus, we've been working on enabling interoperability between Plaxo and other CIM Websites. In... [read more]

The Problem With Anything Called “Name Here”-Killer

July 31, 2009 by Jeff Nolan with 120 views

John is right, in spades. That said, I don’t think LinkedIn is vulnerable to any new business network starting up, whether incubated at a newspaper on in-the-wild. LinkedIn is one of what I think of as one of the “three horsemen of the Social Web,” networks that are fundamentally about real identity and real relationships,... [read more]

Startups and Web 2.0: New Weapons for Gaining the Competitive Sales Advantage

May 6, 2009 by Peter Auditore with 221 views

Following on my colleague Don Bulmer’s excellent post this week, our discussion revolves around the new knowledge platforms that Web 2.0 provides today’s modern day sales person. Before the coming of the Internet, selling and marketing often involved a difficult and painstaking task that involved what salespeople called “hard rock... [read more]

Facts vs Fiction - Social Media Tools in B2B Selling

April 6, 2009 by Niall Devitt with 2,115 views

Well, I think sales people don’t have a bad reputation. They are simply no more RELEVANT. Why? Read “death of a salesman”. No no no - I mean read it NOW - read it again - NOW. It will tell you WHY. If you don’t believe me - you don’t believe me like the main character in the plot didn’t listen to the youngsters who took over. Dave (... [read more]

High Points on the Social Media Landscape

March 10, 2009 by Tom Pick with 443 views

In "The 4 C's of Social Media," I noted that coming up with a concise definition of social media, like defining "art," is challenging. Describing it through the four C's—content, context, connections and conversation—was one approach. Another is to look at the different types of... [read more]

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