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Yes Social Media Works for Small Business Owners

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My first action was to become a member of LinkedIn in 2004. Then I began with inbound marketing action by posting articles on directory sites such as Evan Carmichael , Ezine Articles and Sales Gravy. Yes, social media works as evidenced by my own results for the last nine years. Yes social media works for small business owners.

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Stop Guessing. There’s a Way to Guide Selling

InsideSales.com

They use more channels. The old way (or the way other solutions work) for managing inbound leads is when a new lead is created, a manager or an admin has to manually assign it to individual reps. When your chances of connecting and converting inbound leads decreases by 8X after 5 min, responding quickly is no longer a nice-to-have.

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Stop Guessing. There’s a Way to Guide Selling

InsideSales.com

They use more channels. The old way (or the way other solutions work) for managing inbound leads is when a new lead is created, a manager or an admin has to manually assign it to individual reps. When your chances of connecting and converting inbound leads decreases by 8X after 5 min, responding quickly is no longer a nice-to-have.

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Account-Based Hype: How ABM Makes Outbound Sales Cool Again for B2B

LeadFuze

But it’s increasingly clear to me—and to many B2B professionals —that inbound marketing alone isn’t enough. Inbound sales fundamentalists end up sifting through mounds of low-interest, low-fit leads, while waiting patiently for the best accounts to stumble into a funnel. All Channels Open. How ABM Flipped the Funnel.

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What to Do Better Next Time – Lessons from 3 Top Current CEOs (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

Anecdotally, we also have a random channel and a complaints channel on site [00:12:24] where, actually people do pass a lot of things, the complaints channel. We also have a commendation channel so people can also say when they like things but they’re pretty boorish. My first start-up, I raised money in 2004.

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